Liberated Stock Trader Stock Market Investing Masterclass

Explore how global events move markets and trigger corrections, with lessons from the 2008 crisis, banking failures, debt, and volatility, illustrated by S&P 500 trend lines.

Explore how booms and busts drive market cycles—from dot-com to the 2008 crisis—driven by greed, irrationality, and high P/E ratios, and learn timing to protect investments.

Discover how monetary policy controls money supply, availability, and interest costs to steer stock market trends, with expansionary and contractionary moves shaping inflation and unemployment.

Examine how long-term interest rates relate to the S&P composite PE ratio, revealing that extreme lows and high PE levels indicate overpriced stocks and looming market corrections.

Explore how the unemployment rate, the prime rate, and the S&P 500 interact, showing how increases in the prime rate correlate with job losses and market consolidation.

Explore how fiscal policy—through government spending and taxation—shapes aggregate demand, budget deficits or surpluses, and stock market direction, with expansionary and contractionary stances and real-world crisis responses.

Learn how stock markets move by analyzing the actions of investors, traders, funds, and companies buying stock, and understand market cycles and waves as foundational concepts.

Explore how Kondratieff waves and related cycles influence markets, economies, and major moves. Assess the evidence, limitations, and controversy around 46–60 year cycles and shorter cycles, and their tradability.

Explore the Kuznets 18.3-year and Juglar 9.2-year cycles, map them to the Dow Jones, and identify turning points from the 30s low to the 90s bull run.

The decennial pattern maps decades from 1950s onward, showing stronger gains in the latter half, with peak years five to seven and the dotcom bust guiding long-term investing in etfs.

Explore the four-year business cycle, aka Kitchin cycle, and its impact on the S&P 500 through 1950–2009, revealing peak accuracy, probability of positives, and portfolio protection tips.

Explore seasonal cycles and monthly returns of the S&P 500, highlighting March, April, May, October, November, and December as positive over three decades.

Analyze how days of the week shape market movements, including blue Monday and Friday effect, with a focus on cycles from weekly to four-year horizons.

Explore the Elliott Wave principle, detailing eight-wave cycles driven by mass psychology, including impulse waves 1–5 and corrective waves A–C to forecast market trends.

Practice applying Elliott waves to the stock market using the S&P 500 from 1983–2009, tracing impulse and corrective waves (A, B, C) and the rule of alternation.

Master fundamental analysis across the four investing pillars, evaluate companies using key metrics like PE ratio, debt, revenue, and earnings acceleration, and classify high growth, bluechip, cyclical, and turnaround stocks.

Explore how business fundamentals drive stock value, focusing on revenue, earnings, and earnings per share, and on debt to asset ratio, current ratio, and peg ratio to spot winning stocks.

Master accelerating earnings per share to identify profitable stocks. Learn to compare EPS growth, measure success, and recognize how EPS acceleration drives stock price gains.

Trace the business life cycle from birth to decline, map stock categorization by growth stages, and apply technical analysis and risk management to identify fast growers, cyclicals, and turnarounds.

Learn how the price to earnings ratio, share price divided by earnings, gauges a stock's value, enables industry comparisons, and should be analyzed with other fundamentals and market context.

Master the basics of fundamental analysis for stock selection, using screeners and metrics like earnings growth, revenue growth, the pe ratio, debt, insider and institutional ownership, and cash per share.

Compute cash per share as cash and short term investments minus long term debt, divided by outstanding shares. Spot bargains when price sits below this cash per share value.

Explore how to identify undervalued stocks using fundamentals by comparing one-year projected earnings per share and average price-earnings ratios, then estimate future price and potential gains.

Perform a fundamental analysis of fast-growing stocks by comparing Apple and Google on eps growth, revenue growth, pe ratio, debt, cash, and insider and institutional ownership to decide the investment.

Compare IBM and HP as blue chips; HP shows higher five-year earnings growth and a stronger cash position, making it my choice for cash.

Examine the cyclical stocks Ford and Boeing amid the 2009 recession, noting rising debt, shrinking revenue, and absent earnings growth, and assess their implied value and buy prospects.

evaluate defensive stocks in utilities and health care by comparing York Water and SJW Water on EPS growth, revenue, debt, cash, and ownership to determine the better pick.

Compare dividend and income investing, growth investing and value investing to determine which strategy yields the most profits, guiding your approach to stock market investing.

Learn growth investing, focusing on fast-growing tech stocks and industry potential, while contrasting value and income strategies that target undervaluation and dividend growth.

Discover value investing as a philosophy and strategy that seeks undervalued stocks by assessing intrinsic value, fundamentals, cash flow, and margin of safety.

Explore how income investing uses dividends from established companies to generate stable income, covering regular, monthly, special, liquidating, and preferred payouts while avoiding dividend traps by monitoring stock price trends.

Compare value, income, and growth stock strategies and their performance over the last decade. Growth stocks, including the Nasdaq 100, have outperformed value and income strategies.

Compare exchange traded funds across value, income, and growth strategies, showing dividend-adjusted growth stocks outperforming value and income over ten years, especially versus the Nasdaq 100.

Explore value investing in the Warren Buffett style by identifying undervalued stocks using discounted cash flow, fair value, and margin of safety, and build a powerful stock screener.

Implement a value investing strategy by assessing margin of safety, fair value, and discounted cash flow, then use a stock screener to build a Buffett-style portfolio.

Build and import a Buffett value stock screener in Stock Rover to evaluate value, growth, and income stocks using margin of safety, fair value, and EPS growth.

Explore value stock selection using margin of safety and fair value, analyze solvency, earnings growth, and Buffett screening, and use Stock Rover insights for a buy-and-hold strategy.

Assess value investing with Stock Rover by applying fundamental valuation metrics, evaluating durable competitive advantages and product understanding. Consider barriers to entry, inflation resilience, and margin of safety.

Explore four dividend investing strategies—dividend income investing, growth, value, and the dividend kings investing strategy—and build a powerful stock screener while learning dividend yield, coverage, and payout ratio.

Explore dividend investing with Stock Rover, implementing five strategies: highest dividend yield, high dividend yield and three year dividend growth, value plus dividend, and long term dividend growth for income.

Explore the highest dividend yield strategy. Screen stocks by market cap over one billion, dividend yield above four percent, and payout ratio under 90%, then assess sustainability using Stock Rover.

Explore the high dividend yield plus three-year dividend growth strategy, screened on Stock Rover for market cap above 500 million, dividend yield above 3%, and payout ratio under 50%.

Apply the value plus dividend strategy to find undervalued dividend stocks using margin of safety and Buffett-Graham criteria, focusing on yield, earnings growth, and payout.

Apply the long-term dividend growth strategy by screening dividend aristocrats and kings with rising payouts, using Stock Rover to target yields above 1.5% and sustainable payout ratios.

Explore growth investing and the beat the market strategy to surpass the S&P 500. Learn the criteria to find great stocks and implement a powerful stock screener.

Implement a growth investing strategy to beat the market. Target stocks with growth, free cash flow, and explosive earnings per share using the magic formula.

This lecture presents the beat the market strategy, using cash flow growth, earnings yield, and ROIC with trailing 12-month performance to select 15–40 stocks and beat the S&P 500.

Learners explore a screen-based beat-the-market strategy, using free cash flow, EPS growth, Greenblatt return on capital, and a 15% one-year return vs the S&P to identify high-growth, profitable stocks.

Explore hands-on stock screener strategy implementation with Stock Rover, importing the beat-the-market screener, tweaking criteria, and evaluating margin of safety to generate research-backed stock selections.

Learn to read stock charts, interpret price direction with price bars and Japanese candlesticks, and choose a free charting platform for foundational technical analysis.

Select the right stock charting software to maximize technical analysis, comparing free tools to professional plans like Trading View and Stock Rovere, with indicators, real-time data, and portfolio tracking.

Explore how to use charts, indicators, and backtesting in TradingView to screen stocks, analyze trends, test strategies, and even simulate auto trading.

Learn to read a basic price chart and perform technical analysis using open-high-low-close bars, patterns, and the choice of logarithmic vs arithmetic scales to infer stock history and future potential.

Explore Japanese candlesticks as a price visualization tool, distinguishing down days by filled bodies and up days by hollow bodies, with wicks showing trading ranges and reversal and continuation patterns.

Shows automated candlestick pattern recognition in trading view, selecting patterns (engulfing, harami, dragonfly, evening star) and applying them to stocks like AMD and Microsoft, while not relying on candlesticks alone.

Learn to draw stock chart trendlines to determine direction, forecast movements, and set buy-sell rules using technical analysis; understand patterns, trends, gaps, wedges, and megaphones to predict continuation or reversal.

Master trend lines and price patterns, including candlestick charting techniques, to read stock charts, draw support and resistance, identify breakouts and gaps, and signal buy or sell.

Apply trend lines to identify buy and sell signals by watching breaks of support and resistance, and capitalize on uptrends, downtrends, and trading ranges while preserving capital.

Explore reversal and continuation price patterns, including head and shoulders, cup and handle, saucer bottoms, and volume-confirmed trend-line analysis to anticipate breakouts.

Explore gap patterns in stock charts, including breakaway, continuation, exhaustion, and island reversal gaps, and learn how gap up signals bullish strength while gap down signals bearish weakness.

Explore megaphone tops, a rare reversal at major tops signaling volatility and downward breakouts, and wedges, where price breaks opposite the wedge direction.

Learn to use stock chart indicators such as moving averages, MACD, stochastics momentum, rate of change, and relative strength, and identify indicators that work to apply price divergence effectively.

Master moving averages to visualize stock trends and spot buy or sell signals on charts. See how 50-day and other moving averages reveal momentum, crossovers, and entry rules.

learn how to use multiple moving averages—10, 20, 50, and 200—to spot crossovers that signal trend changes and potential buy or sell points.

Learn how to use stochastics to identify overbought and oversold conditions, understand fast and slow settings, and spot divergences, while integrating moving averages and volume for more reliable signals.

Learn how the momentum indicator, a leading oscillator with a central line, signals buys and sells. See how negative divergences warn of price weakness and possible drops.

Learn to use the rate of change indicator to spot divergences, trend changes, and false signals, by comparing roc with price movements and drawing trend lines.

Learn how the relative strength index measures trend strength by comparing average up-day gains to down-day losses, yielding 0-100 values and signaling oversold or overbought conditions at 30 and 70.

Master MACD, the moving average convergence divergence, with the 12, 26, 9 settings and its histogram and signal line, to spot crossovers and divergences signaling trend changes.