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From day trading to penny stocks, here's your complete guide to investing
This online course bundle teaches all the necessary stock market fundamentals.
18 June, 2020
- The stock market can be unpredictable, but understanding its patterns makes you a better investor.
- Learning technical analysis and trading strategies is possible for anyone willing to invest some time, thanks to this bundle.
- Staying cool under pressure is a skill transferrable from the stock market to everyday life.
<p>All eyes have been on the stock market over the last few months. While many people have pulled their investments out, smart traders recognize that market fluctuations dictate that there will always be success stories. Pinpointing them is a learned skill. </p><p><a href="https://shop.bigthink.com/sales/the-wall-street-survival-stock-trading-guide-bundle?utm_source=bigthink.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-wall-street-survival-stock-trading-guide-bundle&utm_term=scsf-398867&utm_content=a0x1P000004sQmRQAU&scsonar=1" target="_blank"><strong>The Wall Street Survival & Stock Trading Guide Bundle</strong></a> features eight courses designed to set you up for success. Taught by full-time day trader and investor Travis Rose, you'll learn how to read market patterns, understand its logic, and stay calm under pressure.</p><p>This foundational course on stock market fundamentals teaches you analysis techniques and chart indicators. Also featured in this 34-lesson bundle is the psychology of trading, which is more complex than you'd imagine. With a 4.5/5 star rating from over 300 students, trust the words of one graduate:</p><p>"So far I’ve learned a great deal of the language and concepts of what makes up the trading world. Things are starting to click, of course now it’s time to get comfortable and put it into practice."</p><p>Courses in swing trading, day trading, and penny stocks offer you a lot of options to begin exploring the market. And the <strong>Technical Analysis 101</strong> course offers advice on all of the above, as well as tips on long-term investing. You'll also be schooled in the mechanics of portfolio diversification and risk management, to top things off.</p><p>As instructor Travis Rose says, "My courses are designed to benefit <strong style="">both</strong> brand new traders with no prior experience and even traders with years of practice. I start from the basics on my courses and gradually get more advanced in each lecture." </p><p><a href="https://shop.bigthink.com/sales/the-wall-street-survival-stock-trading-guide-bundle?utm_source=bigthink.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-wall-street-survival-stock-trading-guide-bundle&utm_term=scsf-398867&utm_content=a0x1P000004sQmRQAU&scsonar=1" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>The Wall Street Survival & Stock Trading Guide Bundle</strong></a> is on sale for just $29.99. That's a 98% discount from the price of each class separately.</p><p><em>Price subject to change.</em> </p><p><strong>More from the Big Think Shop</strong></p><ul class="ee-ul">
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What is ESG investing?
Transparency no doubt keeps organizations more accountable, but public companies need to reconnect with their true owners.
11 May, 2020
- ESG in investing stands for environmental, social and governance. It is a set of criteria investors can use to understand the values and the future of an organization.
- Companies pour resources into disclosing their ESG because, as the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Or so has been the thought for many years.
- While ESG is undoubtedly good, says John Fullerton, mere transparency is not going to solve the world's sustainability issues. For that, public companies need to act more like private companies and be responsible to their owners.
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- Victoria Montgomery-Brown, CEO of Big Think, explains what it took for Big Think to get approved for the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
- Where big banks failed to assist or even acknowledge applications, a small bank and an incredible banker, Frank Terraferma, came through.
- People like Frank, and his colleagues, are the ones helping ordinary people and ordinary businesses to weather this crisis, writes Victoria.
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<p>I'm a small business owner in New York City. Until the CARES Act was passed, which offered loans to small businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis, I'd forgotten my bank existed, except for the occasional phone call when <em>it</em> asked <em>me</em> to up my business credit limit.<br></p>
<p>Our company is not made of VC stardust, and as much as I'd like to help an international banking conglomerate by pushing my company deeper into debt, I passed on the opportunity. Passing gets easy when the bank requires you to be personally liable for business credit.</p><p>So yes, I'm in business. I have a business partner. We have employees. We rent office space in the nation's most expensive real estate market. And we have been clients at JP Morgan Chase for 13 years.</p><p>When New York City became the epicenter of a global health pandemic, everything stopped. Our clients' budgets froze, our budgets froze, and on down the line. Safety and saving lives were everyone's immediate concern. There could be no disagreement on that. Eventually, we also had to make sure our company was going to meet its obligations.</p>
<blockquote>In the Wild West of financial crises, you meet heroes and you meet villains.</blockquote>
<p>The Paycheck Protection Program was a welcome sign, and a way we could afford our employees some stability. The reality is that this is going to be a punishing time for business. Putting employees first is the right thing to do, and payroll support is the right place to start.<br></p><p>We knew applying immediately was a must. On April 3, my business partner, myself, and our accountant were ready to submit our PPP application online. Our bank, which is the nation's largest bank, did not accept loan applications until April 7. It wasn't taking applications from us, anyway, and my emails to the bank went unanswered. Just no reply at all.</p><p>During those four days, I kept remembering news from the financial crash, when Too Big to Fail meant you were an essential business in a pejorative way. <em>We'd really like to be rid of you, but you've got us by the balls. </em>Now as a client of Too Big to Fail, we were Too Small to Matter to them.</p><p>We submitted our documents to Chase, but its website crashed, leaving us wondering if we'd even applied. An entrepreneur friend, Melissa, asked her lawyer for help, who sent us to a banker named Frank Terraferma, which is his actual name, at <a href="https://www.ifbbank.com/" target="_blank">International Finance Bank</a>. Based in Florida, where Frank lives, it also has a Manhattan banking center.</p><p>In the Wild West of financial crises, you meet heroes and you meet villains. Frank Terraferma didn't want to be a hero, but that's the hero's lot. Between April 9 and 13, Frank called or emailed every day with updates about our application, which his bank had filed. The PPP is a loan with 1% interest, so banks aren't getting rich by servicing them. When Frank said he cared about saving people's jobs, I believed him.</p><p>Thanks to Frank's help, our business got approved in the first round of PPP. On April 13, I emailed my other bank to withdraw our application, uncertain if we'd even filed one. And wouldn't you know it, this got their attention. I finally got an email reply. Whatever.</p><p>During two weeks of back and forth with the Small Business Administration, Frank became a tireless advocate for a business he didn't know and employees he'd never met. He delivered high-touch, personal service. He showed the good in people, and how helping in times of need is a renewing force. By the time our loan was ready to be processed, and because we're all living out scenes from a Russian war novel right now, I was staying in a friend's garage in St. Petersburg, Florida.</p><p>So on a late Friday morning, I met Frank, and a traveling notary, in a St. Petersburg parking lot where I signed the final loan documents on the hood of his car. Standing six feet apart from each other at all times, he helped give our business a life line, and I'm grateful for his gesture, his energy, and his caring.</p><p>People like Frank, and his colleagues, are the ones helping ordinary people and ordinary businesses to weather this crisis. We always need more of them.</p>
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Speculation is the key to the stock market. Learn how it works.
Day trading and technical analysis are two necessary skills for success.
27 April, 2020
- Day trading requires keen foresight in the art of speculation.
- Technical analysis demands an intensive study of past market data.
- These skills can be learned with time and training.
<p>Day traders have to move quickly. Navigating a complex market—especially in the time of a pandemic—requires lightning-fast instincts and a strong working knowledge of the entire industry. Understanding margin leverage and margin interest rates could mean the difference between success and failure.</p><p>Due to the unpredictability of the stock market, technical analysis is essential. Learning how to use charts to recognize market trends and price patterns is required if you want to exploit the market for your benefit.</p><p>Both of these skills require instinct, and instinct is nothing more than learned behavior and repetition. That's what makes <a href="https://shop.bigthink.com/sales/the-2020-day-trading-technical-analysis-master-class-bundle?utm_source=bigthink.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-2020-day-trading-technical-analysis-master-class-bundle&utm_term=scsf-391121&utm_content=a0x1P000004sKYpQAM&scsonar=1" target="_blank"><strong>The Premium Novice-to-Expert Day Trading & Technical Analysis Bundle</strong></a> so valuable to market novices and experts alike: constant study is needed if you want to play this game.</p><p>The 236 lessons involved in this 10-course bundle will empower you with everything you need to feel confident in your market analysis. You'll learn how to become an expert multitasker, performing multiple chart time-frame analysis in order to exit and enter at just the right time. By evaluating volatility, volume, and momentum, market trends will begin to come into view.</p><p>You'll also be shown how to use advanced technical indicators that will help you recognize overbought and oversold conditions and reversal signals, which will make you a security trading expert. In the Candlestick Trading Mastery Course, you'll be armed with everything you need to pick out bear and bull market runs and adjust accordingly.</p><p>The courses are led by Wealthy Education, an eLearning solutions provider specializing in stock market investing, financial management, accounting, and personal finance. Their overall objective is to help students achieve their financial goals and make their trades up to 80.61% more profitable.</p><p>Whether brushing up or diving in, today you can pick up<strong> <a href="https://shop.bigthink.com/sales/the-2020-day-trading-technical-analysis-master-class-bundle?utm_source=bigthink.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-2020-day-trading-technical-analysis-master-class-bundle&utm_term=scsf-391121&utm_content=a0x1P000004sKYpQAM&scsonar=1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Premium Novice-to-Expert Day Trading & Technical Analysis Bundle for only $49.99</a></strong>. You'll even begin with a sound investment decision, considering that the cost is 97% off. </p><p><em>Price subject to change. </em></p><h3>More from the Big Think Shop</h3><ul class="ee-ul">
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Restoring a healthy economy will require a local focus. Here’s why.
How will the current challenges to the global economy pressure it to change?
14 April, 2020
- Life is different everywhere—it is determined by the context of a unique culture and a unique geography. The same goes for economies. Local economies are unique to their contexts, says John Fullerton, founder and president of Capital Institute.
- "[I]magine if you thought about human economic development from a place-based perspective," says Fullerton. "You would have, instead of a global corporation like Apple, thought of as a single thing, you would have Apple's manufacturing plant in China as part of the Chinese bioregional economy."
- The pressure on the current global economy will cause it to shift and evolve into a healthier state of community-based economic development.
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