Unusual options activity can provide insight on what smart money, insiders, and big traders are doing with large volume option orders. Unusual options activity can tip a large traders hand and be a sign that a big bet has been placed for a potential move in price for the underlying stock that has a high probability. […]
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Technical analysis can be both an art or a science based on how you use it. It is very easy to become too rigid in its practice believing it can become a crystal ball or too flexible and see whatever you want to see. Here are ten common mistakes people make in the practice of
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The uptick rule stops the short selling of a stock in a sharp downtrend by restricting the ability to sell when a stock is going down in price and only allowing new short selling as a stock is going up in price. To follow the rule a new short sell can only occur at a
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Selling short reverses the process of buying and selling higher. When selling short you borrow shares and sell first hoping to buy back later at a lower price for a profit. Selling short goes against the long term trend in the stock market and has to be done when charts create the best chances that
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Larry Williams is a legendary trader and the author of approximately 11 books on trading stocks and commodities. He developed several technical market indicators like the Williams %R, Ultimate Oscillator, COT indices, accumulation/distribution indicators and others to measure cycle forecasts, market sentiment, and also for quantifying the values for commodity prices. He is most famous for winning
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In options trading a credit spread is an options play where a trader buys one option and sales another option contract of the same stock and expiration but at different strike price levels. This type of option play construction attempts to make a net profit when the price spread between the two different options gets
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The MACD is an abbreviation for the moving average convergence/divergence technical trading indicator and is used in technical analysis to filter the trends, swings, and momentum of price action. It is designed to reveal changes in price strength, direction, momentum, and duration for the moves of trends and swings. The MACD is a simple visual momentum indicator. The
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An equity curve is a visual representation of the trend and variation in the value of an investment or trading account shown on a chart over a specified period of time. An equity curve that has an over all uptrend and is near all time highs usually shows that the investing or trading strategy used is profitable
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Theta is the component inside the options pricing model that measures and values the sensitivity of an option contract price in correlation to the passage of time. The theta value embedded in an option depends on the price of a specific option contract in relation to its expiration date, the current price of the underlying
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