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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Trader and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb created the black swan theory of events as a metaphor to name an event that happens far outside the normal distribution of deviations from the mean and looks like a fat tail outside a normal bell curve. The term comes from how people thought all swans were white until
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Private equity is specifically a kind of stock ownership in a company that is not publicly traded on a stock exchange. In recent times though it has been what people call private funds that use capital to takeover companies (many times through leveraged buyouts) with the goal to rebuild the company’s business model to create
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In his book “Fooled by Randomness” author N.N Taleb shows the dangers of seeing patterns where there is only random noise, the danger of confusing luck with skill, and believing things can be predicted with accuracy that are simply randomly occurring. Randomness can become especially dangerous in trading and investing in the financial markets as
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A put option contract gives the buyer of the contract the right to sell the underlying asset to the seller of the option at the strike price on the day of expiration. The put buyer has the right to ‘put’ the asset or sell the asset to the put option seller on the date of
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In finance and investing the correlation coefficient is used to calculate a statistical measurement of how strong movements in two markets are historically in relation to one each other. The correlation is expressed in a range of values between 1.0 and -1.0. All the readings of the formula are inside the 1.0 to -1.0 range.
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A chart pattern is simply a visual representation of the prices buyers and sellers bought and sold in the past. There is no magic in a chart pattern they just show you what happened in the past and what has a higher probability of happening in the future. A chart pattern can show that a
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Warren Buffett is a rabid reader of newspapers, company reports, and books. He has spent many hours a day reading over the past 70 years and does have some favorite books that made a big impression on his life. Here are the top five books that most influenced Warren Buffett in his investing and business
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A margin call is when a broker requires that an account holder deposit more capital into their account or sell an open position to maintain it at the required minimum security value for margin requirements. A margin call happens when the value of a trader’s margin account of borrowed money drops below the broker’s requirement
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The definition of financial hedging is to buy insurance to limit the risk of the downside if an asset falls in value. Hedging is a multi-position strategy that purchases insurance for an investment or trade position that is being held as a way to limit the downside losses if it trends against the investor. It