Here are ten interesting U.S. stock market facts in 2022 that you may not have known: How big is the U.S. stock market? Microsoft is worth more than Brazil’s entire stock market. Microsoft, Apple, and Google combined are worth more than the Chinese stock market. Apple is worth more than the entire GDP of India. […]
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Stock Market Cycle Chart Market are always changing from sideways price action, to uptrends, to volatility, and to downtrends. Markets go through cycles of accumulation, mark-up, distribution and mark-down. Having a strategy to trade based on the market phase can be an edge in investing and trading. At least knowing what phase the market is
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How many trading days are there in a year? The NYSE and NASDAQ are open for stock trading an average of approximately 253 trading days a year. This is calculated from the 365.25 days on average per year multiplied by 5/7 for the proportion of trading days per week minus 6 weekday holidays and subtracting
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In my opinion the following list are the best twelve Wall Street movies ever made based on their popularity, entertainment value, and lessons they teach for those paying attention. While these movies may not go too deep into how to make money in trading they do show the dangers of greed, fear, bubbles, and the
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Two popular and highly liquid Vanguard ETFs are ticker symbol VOO (S&P 500) and VTI (Total stock market). These are both stock market index exchange traded funds but perform differently. VOO invests in stocks that make up the S&P 500 Index. It holds around 500 of the largest U.S. companies. Its goal is to track
Float in a stock is the number of shares of a company that is currently trading publicly on the exchange and is available for traders and investors to buy and sell. The stock float is calculated by taking a company’s total issue of outstanding shares and subtracting any restricted stock. Pre IPO investors, employees and
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Wall Street goes through cycles based on the primary human emotions of greed and fear. There is a wide spectrum and phases of emotional behavior inside these two main drivers of investor behavior. The below Wall Street cheat sheet shows the impulses that drive each phase of a market cycle. The best solution to managing
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There are two primary types of stocks in the market, growth stocks and value stocks and each have specific characteristics for investors. Here is a summary of the differences between the two types. Value stocks allow the investor to buy a business at a great price, growth stocks allow an investor to buy the future
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Trending stocks are ones that are moving strongly in one direction whether up or down. Here are trending stock checklists: Stocks in an uptrend: Making higher highs and higher lows. Price is above key moving averages. The chart has moving average crossover signals. Price is near all time highs. Price is near 52-week highs. Volume
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