RSI indicator buy and sell signals are based on oversold and overbought conditions on a chart. The RSI is a measurement of price moving too far and too fast in one direction and as the RSI gets extended farther and farther from the 50 RSI baseline the probability of a reversion to the mean increases. […]
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Here are five of the best movies about finance currently available on Netflix as of this writing. They each explore different areas of finance like business building, leading a corporation, having an edge in blackjack, career risk, and managing personal finances. Why ‘Netflix and Chill’ when you can ‘Netflix and Learn’. Steve Jobs: Gives audiences
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Backtesting is the process of applying entry and exit signals to time periods of past historical price data to quantify through an equity curve whether the system would have lead to overall profits in the past. A backtest is a look back at how a quantified trading system would have performed in the past. While
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This is a guest post by Beatrix Potter. Every Must-Read Psychology Book Every Trader Needs to Read At Least Once Whether you’re just starting out as a trader in the financial world, or you’ve been in the industry for some time, and you’re trying to figure out how to enhance your mindset and keep your
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A pivot point is a specific price level calculated and then used as a technical analysis indicator and trend filter in a chart’s time frame. A charts pivot point level is the average of the high prices, low prices, and closing prices from the last trading day. Price trading above a pivot point signals a
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A bearish credit spread refers to an option play constructed so the value of the spread position increases if the price of the underlying stock falls. A bearish credit spread is constructed with two call options. A bear call spread or credit call spread is an option play that is one kind of vertical spread. A bear call spread
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A put option contract gives the buyer of the contract the right to sell the underlying asset at the strike price of the put on the day of expiration and assignment. When writing a put option you create a ‘sell to open’ order with your option broker. This is how you sell put options short
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This is a guest post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this blog post, make sure to check out the top 5 TrendSpider charts posted this week on social media as well as the weekend video going over the broad markets and case studies from last week! Happy Memorial Day!
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In trading, a ‘Bull Trap’ is considered a rally in price that creates a false momentum signal to go long because the downtrend looks like it is over and reversing back to an uptrend in price but it is a false signal and the market returns to a downtrend trapping longs who then need to
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In the financial markets a dead cat bounce is a small, brief rebound in the price of a stock, commodity, or currency that is in a long term downtrend. The mechanics of a dead cat bounce is that it stops going lower and puts in a short term low in price and then surges higher for a few
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