They Are Affected by Changes to High Frequency Trading Regulations The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering a Test Pilot Program to initiate a study to determine if the High Frequency Trading “Maker-Taker” role is creating predatory and unfair trading practices. This test program was initiated by complaints from …
Changing the Landscape of Professional Technical Trading The Balance of Power (BOP) indicator continues to prove its astounding value as the premier Large-Lot Indicator for trading stocks. The Balance of Power indicator has actually become a far more useful and valuable indicator in the past decade as more and more …
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 …
Feds Miss the Mark on Why Inflation Remains Too Low for Economic Prosperity The Federal Reserve Bank remarked this week that they had no idea why inflation remains below their target of 2%. They are baffled that their maintenance of lower interest rates and their current monetary policy is not …
Tips for Investing and Trading One of the daunting tasks for many new or novice investors and retail traders is finding stocks to invest in long term or to trade. Right now, there are over 9,500 different listed stocks, Over-the-Counter (OTC) stocks, and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) that you could buy. …
Price Fluctuation Revealed Linear Regression Slope Lines can provide a visual interpretation of price that is far superior to any moving average. Instead of applying the lines to the price, the lines can be set below the price chart to maintain the integrity of the analysis of the candlestick patterns …
Candlestick Patterns and Large-Lot Indicators Short-term bottoms are often a sideways pattern that slowly rises out of the low. Sometimes it is hard to see this as a bottom developing, because price is moving in such a choppy up and down pattern each day. One great way to decide whether …
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 …