This "specialty" course has the potential to greatly enhance your stock trading activities. In Course 4 of the Confident Investing Series you learned how to trade individual stocks. This course shows you one strategy for maximizing your stock trading potential returns.

Trading Stocks Like the Masters provides a comprehensive education on how to use online resources to implement the stock trading strategies of some of the most successful investors in history. The course centers on the site at www.validea.com, a subscription based site, where the creators have automated the stock screening methods of individuals such as Peter Lynch, Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham and others. The site then gives subscribers specific stock trading signals and builds portfolios based on the methods of each expert stock picker. Even if you don't decide to become a Validea subscriber, as a course graduate you will have know how to find and use stock screening resources available on the Web. In addition you will have a solid understanding of the stock picking strategies of the Masters and this can benefit any person who trades stocks.   

Note that Validea is offering - exclusive to NAOI students - a 60-day free trial period (as opposed to the normal 7-day period) allowing you to use the full capabilities of the Validea site at no charge while taking this course. Plus NAOI students receive a discount on the subscription price should you decide to continue your site subscription. Offer details are found on the Student Home Page for this course that is accessed after ordering and signing in.

Following are the Forward taken directly from the pages of the course and the Table of Contents. 

Welcome to the Trading Stocks Like the Masters study course. This is an NAOI Specialty Course that supplements the Course 4 of the NAOI Confident Investing Series entitled “The Art and Science of Trading Individual Stocks.

This course is about taking advantage of the thinking of some of the best stock pickers the market has ever known. In the pages of this course you will learn the trading strategies of Master Traders such as Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham and others. We then show you how to use online resources to make actual stock trades based on these strategies. Other investor education resources may be satisfied with simply supplying you with information and theory. NAOI courses are unique in that each first gives you knowledge and then shows you how to transform this knowledge into ACTION.

A Unique "Action" Site

The action resource central to this course is the Web site created by Validea.com. This is a subscription based site and its use is described in detail in Part IV of this course. The NAOI scans the Web on a continuing basis looking for quality sites in a wide range of investing areas. References to only the very best sites are integrated into the content of NAOI courses. When we find a site of particularly unique value the NAOI works with the creators to develop a “specialty” course featuring the site’s capabilities. Validea is one such site and Trading Stocks Like the Masters is one such specialty course.

But this is not a course solely about how to utilize the Validea site. It is a course that will teach you about stock analysis, stock screening and the detailed stock selection criteria of the Master Stock Traders. The course then shows you how to integrate this type of investing activity into your overall portfolio design. 

Regardless of whether or not you decide to use the Validea site on an on-going basis, your study of the concepts presented in this course can significantly increase the effectiveness of your stock trading activities and the return potential of your portfolio as a whole.

Understand, Then Decide

It is not the purpose of the NAOI to “sell” you on using the Validea resource and the NAOI has no financial stake in your decision to subscribe. Our goal is to make you aware of a capability that can increase the potential returns of your investing activities . We then give you the information you need to decide if you want to include this activity in your investing toolkit. If you do, as a graduate of this course, you will be able to do so with confidence.

Table of Contents

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Part I: Introduction to Masters Strategies Stock Trading

Lesson 1 - Introduction to the Masters Strategies Investing Concept 

Lesson 2 - Integrating Masters Trading Into Your Portfolio 

Part II: Stock Analysis and Screening Basics

Lesson 3 - Understanding Stock Analysis Factors 

Lesson 4 - The Art and Science of Stock Screening 

Part III: The Master Stock Traders

Lesson 5 - Profiles and Strategies of the Masters Part I 

Lesson 6 - Profiles and Strategies of the Masters Part II 

Lesson 7 - Summary of the Masters “Famous Ratios”

Part IV: Using the Validea.com Site

Lesson 8 - Accessing and Analyzing the Guru Portfolios 

Lesson 9 - Finding and Analyzing Individual Stocks Using Guru Strategies 

Part V: Implementing Your Masters Strategy

Lesson 10 - Trading and Monitoring Your Masters Strategy Stock Portfolio 

Lesson 11 - Integrating A Masters Strategy Segment Into Your Portfolio

Course Summary

Your Graduation Reward !