Michael Burry is an investor and hedge fund manager of Scion Asset Management, LLC Holdings. He became famous by the best selling book “The Big Short” by author Michael Lewis that was also made into a blockbuster movie. Burry’s most famous trade was using derivatives to bet against the real estate market in 2008 which […]
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Implied volatility or IV crush are descriptions for when an options vega premium dropped dramatically out of its pricing. This usually happens after a major event has passed for the underlying stock or market for the option contract. The most common time to see IV crush in a stock option is after an earnings announcement
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The flat top breakout chart pattern gets its name from the top of the chart being flat as sellers and buyers have met and agreed at the key resistance level. Once trades take place above that flat upper resistance level it is considered a breakout above that level. Flat top breakout trading is used by
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What is market breadth? Market breadth describes the amount of stocks that are participating in the trend of a stock market index or exchange. If a stock index is going higher but over half the stocks in that index going lower, this is called negative market breadth and hidden bearish divergence. When a few stocks
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A breakaway gap is a chart pattern in technical analysis that shows a big opening gap in price above the previous day’s closing price. The gap in price action on the chart is where no trading took place between buyers and sellers. A breakaway gap to the upside has to break above previous resistance while
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The inverted hammer pattern is a type of candlestick located at the end of downtrend and is used by technical analysts as a bullish reversal signal from the lows. The inverted hammer candle visually looks like a hammer turned upside down with its handle pointing up. It is defined as a one day bullish reversal
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A buy stop order is a manual instruction entered into your broker’s platform to enter into a long stock, option, or forex position when its price rises to a predetermined level. When the price target is reached the buy stop converts to a live market order or limit order looking to be filled at the
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The Richard Wyckoff Theory of accumulation and distribution focuses on supply and demand for a stock, cause and effect, and the law of effort for a stock. Here are the five steps to the Wyckoff Method strategy for stock selection and trade entry: 1. What could be the probable future trend of a stock based
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An Evening Star is a group of candlesticks that create a chart pattern used in technical analysis to signal a high probability that a current uptrend in price could reverse. This is a bearish candlestick pattern created by three candles in a row consisting of a large white/green candlestick, a small candle that is usually
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The problem with the Turtle trading strategy is that during breakouts that reverse you can be a dead turtle. The Turtle Soup trading strategy was created by legendary trader and Market Wizard Linda Bradford-Raschke. This is an inverse strategy to the legendary Turtle traders trend following system that they used to make millions in trending
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