Moving averages are primarily used as trend indicators and trend filters. They are quantified technical trading indicators that can be used for backtesting and signal creation. Using moving averages to capture profitable trends are only one side of their usefulness. What enables moving averages to work as profitable technical trading tools is their ability to […]
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With the recent historic volatility in the stock market I thought it could give some perspective to look at both the largest point drops on the Dow Jones Industrial Average in history along with the largest percentage drops in history. Points are not the same as percentage as the Dow Jones is higher the points are
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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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Downtrends are timeframe specific so look for these signals on the timeframe you are trading whether it is intraday, daily, weekly, or monthly. Here are the ten signals that show a chart is in a downtrend. Most downtrends start with a gap down in price, some gaps fill before going lower but it usually is
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Jim” Chanos is an investment manager as the president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City registered investment advisor focused on short selling. Chanos is a famous short seller and one of the most impressive positions taken at Kynikos was the shorting of Enron before its collapse along with many other great short trades.
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend blog post, we take a look at the wild ride the markets took last week. Make sure to check out our Sunday Chart Show this weekend at 6 PM EST with the team from “Trade With Insight” as our guests!
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One of the best stock screening filters for finding growth stocks are the parameters of the CAN SLIM Investing System that was created by William J. O’Neil. These parameters were quantified by his study of the fundamental company metrics of the largest winning stocks in the history of the U.S. stock market going back over 130 years.
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This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here with permission. Everyone’s effort towards understanding the psychology of how to trade, really goes to waste if there is no understanding of how the market really works. There is massive pressure on new and developing traders to learn various ways
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The phrase ‘Scared money don’t make money’ is used in many ways by diverse people from the Hip Hop community to the trading and investing world but what does it really mean? People that are too afraid to take on risks in business, life, and financial markets are unlikely to make money because rewards only come from
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With the recent fast stock market correction let’s look at the definition of a black swan event and see if the Coronavirus Correction week fits the parameters. A black swan is an event that was unpredictable and far outside normal expectations. People didn’t expect the Dow Jones Industrial Average in just ten trading days to go
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