Technical Analysis 101 [Video]
The following Video gives the basics of Technical analysis using live examples as well. It runs nearly 40 minutes so to not waste your time, if you know what support & resistances are, what moving averages and trendlines are then you can skip this post entirely. Its the first screencast recorded and published so feedback is welcomed.
Technical Analysis 101 from InvestingFreak
Basics 101 – Valuation and Investing
The first in many posts at the Freak Investing School is a series of videos from the awesome Khan Academy.
Over the years I've read and studied many books on corporate finance , accounting, investing etc and yet when it comes time to explain the basics I can't do as good of a job as these videos by Sal Khan. They are hands-down the best interactive source to learn the basics so you will have a better idea of the companies you invest your hard earned money with.
There are a total of 12 videos and while I will link each one below I will only embed the first four.
1. Price and Market Capitalization (11:55) Introduction to price and market capitalization.
2. Introduction to the Income Statement (15:27) The income statement, revenue, gross profit, operating profit, net income, ROA and ROE.
3. Earnings and EPS (10:14) Earnings, EPS (earnings per share) and how they relate to the income statement and balance sheet.
4. Introduction to the Price-to-Earnings Ratio (14:47) Price to Earnings Ration (or P/E ratio).
- If you were able to get through the first four videos and understood the concepts Congrats!-
Below are more videos to further enhance your learning so you can invest smarter.
- P/E Discussion (15:34) Discussion of the price-to-earnings ratio.
- ROA Discussion 1 (10:31) & ROA Discussion 2 (10:17) The various ways to measure return on assets.
- Depreciation (12:33) Depreciation a capital asset
- Amortization (7:45) Introduction to amortization
- P/E Conundrum (13:41) A situation where the price to earnings ratio seems to not fairly price an asset.
- Enterprise Value (17:29) Solving the P/E conundrum by looking at Enterprise Value
- EBITDA (14:07) Review of Enterprise Value (EV) and comparing it to EBITDA
This should hopefully give you a better idea about the basics of investing (mostly fundamentals). As a fun fact if you watched all of the videos like I did you have watched nearly 2.5 hours worth of material, keep it up and soon you will be very comfortable doing your own research and investing.