How to Trade Stocks Without Listening to News Whenever I see a feature about a company on the front of a popular magazine or in the news, I am confident that the stock of that company is probably at an extreme and a very high risk for either a steep …
List Explains and Includes Stock Volume, Energy, & Support Stocks move upward in fairly typical patterns that occasionally alternate and shift for instance from Stairstep Candlestick Patterns to Peaks and Valleys. But the sell side of the market can often drop like a dead weight. An uptrend looks like a …
Identify Resistance Where Professional Traders Would Start Taking Profits Most of the time, Retail Traders are focused on finding stocks to trade. However, they spend scant time on assessing risk, proper stop loss placement, trailing profit stops, and determining when to exit the trade, especially as a stock goes ballistic. …
How Low Interest Rates Have Created a Hidden Inflationary Economy This is Part 2 of a series of articles regarding the Federal Reserve Board’s recent statement that they do not understand why inflation remains below 2% as they proclaim a robust economy. The primary method the Feds use in their …
All About ATR Indicator in StockCharts ATR can be highly useful for technical traders who trade stocks, and stock or index options. It can work similarly to implied volatility and thus is particularly useful for options traders. ATR works on stocks, ETFs, and indexes providing valuable information about the magnitude …
Types of Indicators and How to Use Them A stock indicator is a formula that takes certain market data and transforms that data into a line or histogram to provide a graphical view of what is happening with price to determine what may happen in the near future. Indicators are …
Quiet Accumulation/Distribution Indicators The task of finding a simple reliable method for tracking the quiet accumulation of institutional investors in the stock market was no small feat for me many years ago. Market indicators track mostly indexes, advancing versus declining stocks, breadth, and so on which all basically track price …