Articles tagged: "analysis"
1: How To Accelerate The Business Analyst Job Search
Looking for a new business analyst job can be intimidating whether you are a seasoned business analyst looking for a challenging business analyst position or you are applying for entry-level business analyst positions. Whatever your situation, what I am about to say next may help you find your ideal business analyst job quickly, fast track your business analyst career or help you become a star player in the business analyst industry!
2: If You Can't Beat Your eBay Competitors, Take A Lesson From Them
Sometimes it 's painful to look at your eBay cometitors' listings, especially if they seem to be doing better than you are. In this article we look at ways to outrank your eBay competitors by observing their movements.
3: Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--Oh My--Part TWO-Testing
This article is also available as a Podcast on "The ROOT Cause" available on iTunes Written and Narrated by Barry Koplowitz
4: Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--Oh My--Part One--Environments
Baselining--Stress Testing--Performance Testing--OH MY--Part One--Environments by Barry Koplowitz
5: Dreamwork: Tips to Help You Recall and Interpret Your Dreams
"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind" - Emily Bronte, English novelist and poet Dreams have the tremendous power to transform our lives in so many ways
6: The Dangers of Defective Seat Belts
While it is estimated that nearly 15,000 lives are saved each year because of seat belts during automobile accidents, it is also estimated that nearly 10,000 deaths are the result of defective seat belts in car wrecks. The national campaign to get individuals to use their seat belts becomes more difficult when defective seat belts become the cause of an automobile driver 's death.
7: Faulty Tires Can Put Drivers at Risk
Today, millions of Americans own vehicles and drive them everyday, although some vehicles become at risk through neglect but also because of manufacturer defects. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released reports stating that nearly 8,000 deaths occur annually because of tire defects, many of which are due to defects in production.
8: Split Testing And Beyond
Internet marketers new to the business are initially more than happy to simply drive traffic to what they have on offer. Needless to say, before long they become conscious of the fact that the conversion rate is much more of an important measure, even more so if they are paying for the directed traffic.
9: What 's So Great About Packet-Sniffers?
There are many products on the market that provide different levels of Network Management or Server Management They are all easier to use than Packet-Sniffers and not nearly as cryptic
10: Mentoring In It
This article is also available as a "The Sniffer Guy" podcast on iTunes ATTENTION AMERICAN IT MANAGERS: Within the next decade most of your best people will retire or die
11: The Myths Of Network Utilization & Automated Metrics
The Interpath Technologies Networking Myths Seriesâ„¢ This artilce is also availabe as a Podcast of "The Sniffer Guy" though iTunes Mythology is not fantasy or lies
12: Faulty Tires Can Put Drivers at Risk
Tire failure often plays a small or large part in auto accidents that cause serious injuries or death. Tire failure can occur in several different ways including tire blowout injury, sidewall zipper failure, and tread separation. In most cases, these malfunctions are the fault of the tire manufacturer. All of these can pose a possibly fatal risk to the driver.
13: The Application & Network Performance Analysis Troubleshooting Team (NAPA)â„¢
This article is the topic of Episode 5 of “The Sniffer Guy” podcast series available through iTunes INTRODUCTION: Application & Network Performance Analysis is a team sport
14: The 7 Most Common Mistakes Using Packet-Sniffers
This article is also covered in a "The Sniffer Guy" podcast--available at http://wwwinterpathtech
15: Ten Things Leaders Need to Know About Audience Analysis
It is easy to assume you know the audience - the ones for whom you are writing or to whom you are speaking. You do, but sometimes you need to do an analysis to avoid overlooking important details. It will help you be a better communicator and leader.
16: Don't Be An Average Trader, Use Better Trades
We are in the midst of earning 's season and the market could not be any more crazy. Today, most of the stocks that were reporting posted better than anticipated earnings and the Dow managed to break a 5-day losing streak. This week the housing sector posted good permit applications and sales numbers, two indicators that bode well for a continued strong housing market. Many of the basic economic indicators are weak and the latest rumor on the street is that the Fed MAY cut interest rates another 25 basis points to a 60 year low of 1%. Then, add into the mix an Iraqi dictator whose defiant stance has the whole world wondering when the first bomb will be dropped, by whom and what will be in it? It is all enough to drive the average trader nuts.
17: Staying On Top Of Better Trades
It goes without saying that we've been trading a pretty tough market. I believe as well that is really a matter of perspective. Many of those trading today have been trading fewer than 5 years and have no prior experience with this kind of market. Additionally, their relative lack of experience has them running for the "Tums" at almost every negative comment out of New York or Washington! Well, justified or not, it is precisely this kind of market which drives home an important tenet of trading. You have to stay 'on top' of the market at all times if you expect to be a successful trader. I have developed a pretty simple method for doing that.
18: Simplify Trading Rules When Using BetterTrades
Trading in the stock market can be very tricky, especially if you’re looking at more than one position. While certain strategies are inherently complex, managing multiple positions of even the most simple strategy can quickly become an “awesome’” task!
19: Better Trades to Stay on Top
It goes without saying that we've been trading a pretty tough market. I believe as well that is really a matter of perspective. Many of those trading today have been trading fewer than 5 years and have no prior experience with this kind of market. Additionally, their relative lack of experience has them running for the "Tums" at almost every negative comment out of New York or Washington! Well, justified or not, it is precisely this kind of market which drives home an important tenet of trading. You have to stay 'on top' of the market at all times if you expect to be a successful trader. I have developed a pretty simple method for doing that.
20: Stay The Better Trades Course
Today, most of us lead pretty hectic lives. We have four children in college at the present, so if you're not familiar with 'hectic', you are cordially invited to visit the Eldridge household for a while! While we're all being pulled here and tugged there, prudence dictates that someone in our household remain focused enough on the "big picture' to be able to direct the rest of us along our paths. I'm sure we all have similar situations in each of our homes. We can use this to draw an interesting parallel to our trading.
21: Reducing Your Risk in BetterTrades
One of the most important aspects of successful trading is not the strategy itself.That will either work or it won't (all things being equal). We have a 50 / 50 chance either way. While perhaps not mathematically accurate, that pretty well captures the spirit of my point; we exercise precious little control (as in NONE) over how our stocks move. We ALL have losses from time to time. It 's a fact of trading life! That being a given, one of the most critical aspects of successful trading is to control any LOSSES we might be facing. Obviously, it is in our best interest to minimize those losses as much as we can.
22: Gaps Importance for Better Trades
There is general knowledge of gaps but most people do not know enough about the many types of gaps and their respective importance. The understanding of gaps begins with the gap theory. But while the gap theory deserves a thorough discussion, I want to focus on the types and relative importance of the many different gaps and leave a detailed treatise on the Gap Theory to another time. Nonetheless, a quick lesson on the theory is warranted to set the stage. First off the definition of a gap is when the closing price and the following opening price is different. There are true gaps and body gaps just to name a few but a quick run through of the gap theory will serve to set the stage.
23: Better Trades and Stability Vs. Profitability
Previously
Earlier, we began a to investigate the need for stability in our trading business. We agreed that an important purpose for stability was having a more or less consistent ability to pay our bills, enabling our trading business to survive. Additionally, we outlined a strategy which had the ability to maintain our initial value (our emergency money) and the potential for making profits as well. The strategy; a 'balanced' straddle; amounted to finding a stock whose price 'oscillated' above and below a particular value. If that value was also a strike price for that stock, then we could straddle it, buying puts and calls at that strike with several months before expiration. As the price moved up and down, the value of our calls and puts moved up and down inversely, keeping the total value of the position roughly the same. In this way, our 'emergency fund' was more or less kept intact. In this discussion, we see how to draw a profit from such a position.
24: Treating BetterTrades as Business
Have you ever wondered how in the world large businesses or corporations such as GM or IBM just manage the small day to day tasks of operating and managing such huge concerns? It is just mind boggling to think about the millions of little details which have to be handled just to keep the doors of such complex corporations open! I'm not a CEO or CFO type and I certainly have no training or expertise in those areas, but I have spent a lot of time talking to folks whose job it is to run large and medium sized companies in an effort to understand how to better run my own, comparatively tiny business. What I found was truly amazing, if not totally refreshing!
25: Climbing to BetterTrades Top
I have the unique opportunity to teach Traders with a wide range of knowledge. Some individuals are just beginning, while others have been around the market for 20+ years. There are some "laws of life" that seem unchangeable. For example, I know that some people will earn more than me in this market and, unfortunately, others will never have success in their trading efforts. It 's sad to think that some people will not see their aspirations for financial success materialize. It is comforting to know what makes the difference between the winners and the non-winners (I choose not to use the "L" word).
26: Every Day Success for Better Trades
There has never been anything I've done which hasn't taught me something. Often these 'lessons' are simply reminders of mostly insignificant 'truisms' of life. Occasionally they can call back into focus really useful principles we might have 'packed away' for a season. One of these was vividly placed before me in a trade last week.
27: Better Trades By The Calendar
Previously: In previous articles, we developed the premise that we need to build stability into our trading business. We discussed using a specific strategy; straddles; for that purpose. The main idea was to find a stock oscillating equally as long and far above AND below a specific strike price. Once found, we'd allow the stock to get to that strike price, then buy a put and a call with that specific strike price and about 4 or 5 months of time prior to expiration.
28: Price Graphs Importance for BetterTrades
Trading stocks and options can be done easily and profitably as long as you use a proven system of technical analysis to time your trades. That system should begin by analyzing the price graph, first and foremost, and then confirming what you see in the price graph with a few reliable technical indicators. You have a trade when the indicators and the price graph are in agreement. The focus of this article is on the first part of a successful trading system . . . the price graph.
29: BetterTrades Trading System
I think it was Will Rogers who said "I am more concerned with the return of my principle than the return on my principle". How true that rings when it come to trading in the stock market! Yet I find myself receiving emails and being told sad story after sad story about traders who have lost a fortune trading! The emails and comments I love to receive, however, are the ones from students in my classes that are making a fortune because they took the time to learn the SYSTEM I teach in my LIFESTYLE TRADING WITH LEAPS 2 day class.
30: 7 Elements for BetterTrades
Lately I have had a lot of new traders in my online webshops. I will never forget what it was like to be brand new! The excitement of hope for a better life, the power to control your future at your fingertips, and the awe of finding out you can trade with a strategy is so awesome when you see first see the light. However, it took me years of study, mistakes and the school of hard knocks to get to where I am today - a world known successful trader
31: BetterTrades Selection of the Right Stock
In the last newsletter we covered part two of a three part series on how to select the right stock option. We covered, in detail, items 1 - 4 below. We will now complete item 5 and expand this newsletter into a SIX PART SERIES instead of THREE.
32: How to Confirm Trades to Make Better Trades
I have noticed an AMAZING number of students placing trades that have gone wrong and if they could have done what I call "A ROUND ROBIN" it likely could have prevented the cost. I would like to share what I do in my "ROUND ROBIN" before entering a new trade or deciding to exit an existing trade:
33: Strangles as Better Trades Earnings Opportunities
Earnings announcements create a problem for traders as we often see an overreaction to the announcement. This overreaction takes the form of an unusual amount of buying or selling pressure. Because most earnings are announced after the market has closed this buying or selling pressure builds up overnight and causes the stock to gap up or gap down. The stronger the buying or selling pressure the more the stock will gap.
34: Turning Point to Better Trades
Recently in a Denver LEAPS class, I was teaching some tips on drawing support and resistance and how to read some basic candlesticks patterns to fine tune an entry into a trade. I was explaining how I get great entries by using the prior days' low (for a down trade) and the prior days' high (for an up trade) to confirm the stock direction.
35: Trading Practice and Better Trades
When you are new at this game called the stock market, you will find it necessary to start off with the basics. Milk not meat! If you only knew what we know, after years of trading and teaching students, you would do whatever we tell you and never break a rule. It is so hard to watch students jump before they are ready, but I see it time after time. I call this the READY - FIRE - AIM syndrome. Believe me, I so understand where you are at - I started the exact same way.
36: BetterTrades Timing Importance
Timing is everything! Especially when it comes to trading in the stock market. It amazes me the thought process a lot of students go through when it comes to trading.
37: Selecting BetterTrades Options
In the last five newsletters in this series we looked at a series of issues to select the right stock option. This newsletter will cover the final step, Graceful exits, along with a recap of the items previously discussed so you will have an easy reference tool at your disposal.
38: BetterTrades and the "Chicken Bull Put Spread"
I am famous for getting up to $2.75 in a Bull Put Spread the day before expiration date! That is almost unheard of! But yes it can and does happen if you use my secrets! Let me share with you my secrets and technique that I call CHICKEN BULL PUT SPREADS.
39: Little Known Weapons Of Mass Destruction Threat During Lebanon War
A well informed source in the Israeli intelligence community, who cannot be identified, says the Israeli air force raids, following the July 12 Hezbollah attack on an IDF border patrol, were aimed first of all at "Hezbollah 's strategic weapons' secret locations" The source added that this initial goal did not include "ordinary" short and medium range rockets but was specifically aimed against the heavier weapon systems supplied by Iran with the Zalzal rockets topping the list
40: The Business Analysis: Why Your Company 's Future May Depend on It
Once a year you should do a thorough analysis or review of your company to make sure you are staying on track. As a general outline you can follow these 10 categories:1)Management and Administration: your strategy, supervision, delegation, accountability, accounting, human resources, payroll an
41: Making a Great Business Plan
For everything in life, you need a plan, right?The same can be said for business. Every business, whether a startup or a full fledged, profitable organization needs a business plan. In order to know where you are going, you have to know where you came from and what came before you.In this artic
42: Nitrate And Nitrite Nitrogen In Drinking Water
Water Wisdom Tips and Newsletter Issue # 7 In this issue of Water Wisdom, we’ll discuss two important sources of drinking water contamination – nitrate and nitrite nitrogen Because these are both forms of nitrogen, we’ll take a look at how each one may infiltrate our drinking water some of the potential ramifications of their presence
