Retirement. It rolls off the lips of the working class with wishful anticipation. Thoughts of sandy beaches, world travel, golf, and sightseeing immediately follow. But for most, neither the thoughts of retirement nor its plans have been preceded by a structured stock trading plan to arrive there with sufficient money to enjoy it. For these people, it is time to become familiar with retirement investing.

For many people, the dedication to retirement investing, and the ability to do so, has fallen significantly short of their needs for retirement. According to research, while most have had the opportunity, approximately one third of American workers are not setting aside money for retirement investing in any form. This shortfall includes stock market strategies, personal savings, and retirement plans. On one end of the spectrum, more than a forth of those under the age of 25 do not understand planning for retirement; on the other end, more than half of those over 65 still do not know how much they need to maintain their current standard of living. In both instances, these people are ideal candidates for retirement investing.

Retirement investing, simply stated, is an accounting of assets and means of accumulating wealth in order to fund one’s lifestyle after retirement. With such a large percentage of workers neither understanding a retirement plan nor their future needs, retirement investing may be more important than ever. In other words, many times the company 401K cannot provide the means to completely support life after retirement, but when saving isn’t enough, many need help learning how to play the stock market.

Retirement investing can start with a simple check by the investor. Companies are required by law to provide summary statements of pension and savings funds. Many times, it is possible to evaluate progress toward retirement simply by reading the material provided. All too often, however, the employee neither understands the stock market information provided nor utilizes the company resources provided to teach more about savings or long term investing.

After seeing a problem arising from lack of a stock market investing education and understanding of 401K, one company developed a planning report called “Gap Analysis”. This one page report clearly identified the needs of an employee at retirement age and the projections of their 401K at retirement age. Such a report can be the wake-up call that an employee needs to begin planning for the future. In cases where the company fund isn’t adequate, the employee can consider the option of learning about the stock market or pursuing an option trading education.

Information is available to determine one’s long-term financial needs. Sometimes it is learning more about saving; other times, it is learning how to invest. Most employees can go to a pension administrator in their company for data. There are financial advisors available for a more comprehensive evaluation. It is even possible to participate in Internet stock trading or self-evaluate by performing gap analysis. Ultimately, the responsibility for the future lies with the employee; the person looking to walk on sun-lit beaches, and enjoy all that the world has to offer in retirement, needs to do the work to prepare for this future. When planning for the future, tomorrow starts today.

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What is providing strength to this market? Crude oil prices are dropping. Interest rates are low and relatively stable. Having the ability to analyze any chart using candlestick signals creates a huge advantage. Other influences on the markets can be analyzed very quickly. It has been recently asked what is  involved in the private training sessions that Stephen Bigalow provides. One of the most important aspects of candlestick analysis is quickly analyzing all the factors that are going to influence a position. The private training sessions produce insights into the important analytical elements that create a high probability trade. Once you have learned how to utilize the candlestick signals effectively, you basically put all the stars in alignment very quickly. The more factors that you can establish as being a positive reason for entering a trade, the higher the probabilities of producing positive returns. The more positive trades that can be established, even if it is a small percentage increase, reduces the number of losing trades. It does not take a very big percentage improvement in a positive trade ratio to dramatically improve returns in an account. Click here for more information on the private training sessions.

The longer a trend continues, the more opportunity for finding the chart patterns and candlestick signals that are confirming the bullish sentiment. Once a reversal has occurred in an obvious chart pattern, as seen in the NVEC chart, one of the candlestick forum's recent recommendations, the investor sentiment had good opportunity to build up as the market continues its uptrend.

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The candlestick signals produce a very high probability trade. Being able to analyze what the general market direction will do after a candlestick buy signal increases the probabilities immensely. This process is not difficult. The visual analysis provided by candlestick signals makes analyzing price trends relatively easy.

Private training sessions - The next private training session with Stephen Bigalow has been rescheduled from November 4 and 5 to November 11 and 12th. You will receive  more information on how to analyze the signals correctly than you can imagine. The important aspect of these training sessions is that they do not end after two days. Monday, after the training session, you will have a completely different perspective on how to invest profitably. And whatever questions or clarifications that you still need to trade successfully will be available. The Candlestick Forum staff and Steve Bigalow will continue to educate you in areas where you need help. This is not a training program, where you are given the information and you are on your own. The two days of training give you an immense amount of valuable information. It is then followed up with the fine-tuning of that information in your own trading methods.

Chat session for members - Tonight at 8 p.m. ET. Last week, Ricky Wayne was scheduled for a special session on  Sunday night. Unfortunately, he had online Internet connection problems. He did a training session this past Sunday night. Unfortunately, we did not get our e-mails out to everybody as a reminder. Mark on your calendar, he will do a training session this Sunday night, October 29, on his use of candlestick signals to day-trade, and make a very good living.

Good investing,

The Candlestick Forum Staff

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