Welcome to the Learned Investor.
Why am I’m here? Simple. As 2007 rolled around I made another New Year Resolution – Seriously Invest. Well this resolution wasn’t unique to 2007. Every year I made the same resolution and every year it remained unfufilled.
So why this site? Even though I’ll be writing this for my own personal gratification and maybe the random monthly visitor, I hope it will keep me on track with my resolution and investing. You know if someone is watching… then I’ll feel obligated to keep my resolution.
Why are you here? Who knows. Maybe you can learn something too — from my successes and my failures.
You can track my progress from the start. Many blogs and newsletters are from the so-called experts, but really what do they know (besides more than me)? This is just a regular investor who’s learning the ropes and will pass on what I learn. The good and the bad in a straight forward way. And if you are one of those experts, please feel free to instill upon me some of your knowledge. Criticize my decisions, chastise my mistakes or praise my prowess.
Over time this site will become an educational center for new investors. Not the end all and be all, but a site of lessons learned that can be used to avoid the same pitfalls and benefit from someone elses follies. It will be a source of investing information, methodologies and advice. A meeting place to discuss and explain our positions.
Today it is powered by WordPress blogging software. It has allowed me to go from concept to reality in a minute, but I will be expanding it over time. Adding forums, tutorials, and other information systems. But that will be some time down the road if I start getting more traction with the site.
Please contact me at learned@learnedinvestor.com with your comments, suggestions and other feedback.
I am an amateur trader and investor with over 15 years experience in the stock market. I was bred to be a fundamentalist and followed fundamental analysis until 2009. Following the 2007-2008 bear market, I began to shift from a buy-and-hold strategy to trend-following techniques.
There is an active discussion forum out there as well:
http://www.roicommunity.com/forum/
Hi
I came across ur site while randomly surfing the net and quite liked what you wrote. Well i am also in the same process of trying to learn and come up with an investment plan.
And i also tend to drift towards different trading systems while i should be focussed on any one or 2 particular methods. For me also position trading is the best and probably the one i could manage.
I also plan to strenghten my knowledge of funadamentals and i also dont believe in buy and hold.
keep in touch and tell me how everything is going on your side.
bye
samantha
I’m a beginning trader, and now that I came across your site, I’ll be tuning in. I like your well-defined trading/learning plan.
I’m working with the setups in the Carr “Trend Trading for a Living” book. My first trades involved the “bullish pullback” setup which yielded several nice candidates around May 14-15. I entered several positions on May 15 and 18, and used a 5% trailing stop as my exit. After the run up on the 18th, my stops triggered on May 20 and 21. I made money!
Now, of course, the bullish setups in the book aren’t yielding candidates, and as you’ve noted in recent market updates, it’s time to look for shorting opportunities. I really am at the beginning of my journey, so it looks like my next step is to upgrade my brokerage account to a margin account, and get comfortable with the concept of shorting.
@trender
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to see you’ve had some success so far. If you haven’t already considered it, you can also look to Inverse ETFs to play a bear market. Good luck with your future trades.
Do you take donations or is this free like some of the penny stock pick site I know that take donations?