This blog post is meant to answer the questions for friends and family that are not as plugged in or knowledgeable as traders and seasoned investors and wonder why the stock market is falling so fast in March of 2020. Stocks are priced today based on future expectations of a company’s stock value due to […]
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Being bearish means that you believe the market is going to fall, being bullish means you believe the market is going to rise. Here is the difference in bearish versus bullish sentiments. Here is what causes bullishness: Bulls believe that company earnings and sales will continue to go higher. Bulls believe the government has created
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The term “bear market” is used to describe a downtrend in a financial market. The term can be used for a whole market or just to identify a specific sector, commodity, or stock. The term has been thought to be used to describe a falling market because the bear claws in a downward motion when
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One example of a simple long term trend following system is the ‘Golden Cross’. This is the most popular and famous bullish moving average crossover entry signal along with its inverse ‘Death Cross’ bearish exit or short selling signal. The Golden Cross happens when the 50 day simple moving average crosses over the 200 day
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we analyze the moves made by SPY, QQQ, and IWM over the last week and beyond. On Sunday, We have TrendSpider partner and avid user of the platform, “AlwaysRed” on to discuss his trading style and how he uses TrendSpider.
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Data mining for traders is the process of researching large amounts of historical data to find repeatable price action patterns in financial markets. Data mining can be done on all different time frames and both technical and fundamental data can be used to analyze the movements of markets based on different catalysts. When you mine
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This is a guest post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we analyze the moves made by SPY, QQQ, and IWM over the last week and beyond. SPY: Daily Chart QQQ: Weekly Chart XBI: Weekly Chart Related Blog Posts Alerts – Add alerts to your trendlines and indicators with sensitivity. Raindrops – Visualize
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The Pareto Principle is named after Vilfredo Pareto an Italian economist who first noticed an 80/20 distribution in statistics and published his first work on this in 1896. Pareto is said to have first observed the mathematical formula when he observed about 80% of the total land in Italy was owned by 20% of the people. In his
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In statistics, the standard deviation is a measurement of the magnitude of variation of a set of numbers that represent values. A smaller standard deviation shows that values are closer to the mean or average expectations of a set of data. A higher standard deviation shows that the values are more varied and over a
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While modern traders are spoiled with the ease we have of seeing moving averages on our charting platforms in an instant, older traders had to calculate them for their self and update their own charts by hand drawing them daily before the days of better computing power and software. Many believe this gave them a
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