Is there a simple moving average trading strategy that crushes buy and hold investing? If so, what moving average and time frame combination would accomplish this going back at least 20 years? The 200-day simple moving average as an end of month signal on the SPY ETF accomplishes this feat. Buy and hold investing on …
Float in a stock is the number of shares of a company that is currently trading publicly on the exchange and is available for traders and investors to buy and sell. The stock float is calculated by taking a company’s total issue of outstanding shares and subtracting any restricted stock. Pre IPO investors, employees and …
Musa I (c. 1280 – c. 1337), was the tenth Mansa ( “conqueror”or “emperor”) of the Islamic West African state known as the Mali Empire. The Mansa Musa net worth was estimated to be approximately $400 billion USD inflation adjusted. Making him the historically richest person to ever live. This is over double the current net …
Stock chart patterns are simply a visual representation of the prices buyers and sellers bought and sold at 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. The best use of chart patterns …
Market Profile is an intraday technical analysis process that records price on the vertical axis and time activity on the horizontal axis of a chart. This strategy was developed by J. Peter Steidlmayer when he was trying to determine and evaluate market value as it developed on the daily chart. The chart displays price on …
People new to the cryptocurrency online world and Fintwit may wonder what the word “HODL” means after hearing it all the time in the context of investing and trading especially with bitcoin. What does HODL mean? “HODL” originally came from a typo in the title of a post from a BitcoinTalk.org forum in 2013. The …
Here are two of the best crypto trading signals using moving average crossovers to swing trade and trend trade the ^BTCUSD and ^ETHUSD pair. These are examples of trading signals for capturing moves to the upside and going to cash if price starts moving down. 5 day / 10 day ema crossover: Laser Hands signal. …
The short interest ratio is a mathematical indicator showing the average number of days it will take for short sellers to buy to cover the borrowed shares of a stock in the open market. The short interest ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of shares short of a stock by the average daily …
Negative correlation in markets, also known as an inverse correlation, indicates that two securities have a relationship where their prices move in opposite directions from each other most of the time. As an example, if gold and the U.S. dollar have a negative correlation, as the dollar goes up in value then gold will go …
Most option traders are familiar with selling covered call options on stocks that they already own in their portfolio to generate cash flow, but what if an investor wanted to generate income from stocks they want to own in the future? Have you heard of selling puts for income? Selling a naked put option is …
