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Popular Candlestick Reversal Patterns
Candlestick charts have become the chart type of choice for traders around the world. They offer a huge amount of versatility in technical analysis while requiring very little price data as inputs and make it easy to visualize key changes in stocks’ trading patterns....
Choosing a Trading Style: 4 Options and Which is Best For You
Trading is an activity that is anchored by an individual’s preferred style, a trading style. Just as there are preferred combat styles like strikers or grapplers for mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters and then perhaps southpaws (left handed) strikers and Jiu-Jitsu...
Options vs. Equities: Pros & Cons
Options and equities, while both are used to profit from the movement of a stock, have key differences. The main use of options is for hedging already established equities position, while equities are usually used to establish a directional view of a company. For...
Trade Management Strategies That Will Deliver Better Results
What is Trade Management? Trade management is the process of efficiently completing a trade sequence. This involves finding a set-up, determining allocation size and planning out the trade, then executing entry, monitoring and exits. Proper trade management results in...
Introduction to Stock Market Futures
A whole world of trading exists beyond simple stock trading, offering additional possibilities, risk, and reward for traders. The futures market is one of the most widely traded markets beyond stocks and enables traders to make financial decisions based on what they...
Introduction to Quantitative Trading
Over the last decade, we have seen a parabolic rise in quantitative trading. The story cannot be told with a simple chart displaying quant funds AUM; quantitative thinking has permeated the entire industry, trickling down to the most qualitative aspects of finance....
ETFs vs. ETNs: What Traders Need to Know
While most investors are now familiar with exchange-traded-funds (ETF), exchange-traded-notes (ETN) allude investors since they may not distinguish the difference between the two structures. They may appear and trade identically in performance, but the underlying...
A Beginner’s Guide to Technical Indicators
Technical indicators are ubiquitous in the world of trading, and for good reason – they can be powerful tools for predicting future changes in a stock’s price. Technical indicators are best for short-term forecasts and so are most frequently used by active traders,...
What is a Dead Cat Bounce?
Stock prices can either consolidate, uptrend or downtrend and at any given period of time. Trend reversals happen when buyers overwhelm supply and push prices higher and when sellers overwhelm demand and push prices lower. When a downtrend is extensively steep, it can...
What You Need to Know About After Hours Trading
What is After Hours Trading? After hours trading is the activity of making trades after the U.S. equities markets close at 4:00 pm EST. This is also called extended hours and post-market trading. The after hours session begins at 4:01 pm EST. to 7:59 pm EST. ECNs...