The McClellan oscillator is a market breadth technical indicator used by traders to analyze the New York Stock Exchange listings balance between the advancing and declining stocks over time. The McClellan oscillator quantifies the Advance-Decline Data on a stock market exchange, it could also be used on stock indexes, portfolio holdings, or any watchlist of […]
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The MACD-Histogram quantifies the distance between MACD and its 9-day EMA signal line. The histogram reads positive when MACD is above its 9-day EMA and reads negative when the MACD is below its 9-day EMA. The MACD-Histogram is a technical oscillator that moves both above and below the zero line on its chart. The MACD-Histogram
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In trading and investing post earnings announcement drift (or PEAD) is the theory that a stock’s price action tends to trend in the same direction as an earnings surprise causes it to go. This effect usually starts with a gap in the direction that it will go for the next few weeks or even months
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Stock backtesting software is a tool for doing historical research to discover if mechanical technical entry and exit signals would have lead to profitability in the past. Backtesting software has a store of historical price data and a platform for inputting reasons for getting in and getting out of a market using that data. The
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M. W. Toews / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5) Here is a quick overview for an understanding a standard deviation chart data set. You can see how the examples of the data will fall within one standard deviation of the mean for approximately 68% of the data set, staying within two standard deviations happen with approximately 95%
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A simple moving average is a technical indicator that you can use to quantify price trends and trading signals. Moving averages can be used for the following: Entry signal Exit signal Trailing stop Stop loss Profit target To scale into a position Trend indicator Risk management Quantify position sizing To measure volatility To manage volatility
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How do you identify supply and demand zones on a chart? Areas of supply for a market is at overhead price levels is what creates resistance. An area of supply is a price zone where many traders and investors are holding a stock and willing to sell it. Overhead resistance is created when people sell
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Bruce Kovner was one of the biggest traders in the world in the interbank currency and futures markets during his career according to author Jack Schwager. He is the founder and chairman of Caxton Associates, a global macro hedge fund. Kovner retired from the hedge fund in 2011 after managing it for over 30 years. In
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Trend Following by Michael Covel is the bible for traders interested in learning how trend trading works as a method. This book explains the principles and concepts that you will need to understand for how the best trend following traders made their outsized returns on capital. It will teach you the key principles that the
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An online options profit calculator can help with the math of understanding the dynamics of an option play from opening it until it is closed and whether it is profitable. An option play can be long or short with one leg (position), it can be a spread with more than one leg (positions), or a
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