What are Dow futures? Dow futures are contracts that trade with commodities on futures exchanges. Dow futures contracts have set prices along with dates for delivery to buyers. They are tools with leverage that give traders and investors the right to buy or sell depending on whether they are long of short the Dow Jones […]
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Bitcoin is currently the most popular cryptocurrency in the world. It’s symbol is “₿”. It was created and launched in 2008 by someone under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. The cryptocurrency went into real world use in 2009 as open-source blockchain software. Bitcoin was the first decentralized digital currency separate from a central authority. It
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A skewed distribution is when one tail of data in a range is longer than the other side. A data set can have a positively skewed distribution or a negatively skewed distribution. What is the difference between positive skew versus negative skew? Skewness is the measurement of a a coefficient that has the ability to be
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Berkshire Hathaway is the publicly traded corporate conglomerate that Warren Buffett built into an insurance business and a holding company for his investment portfolio of stocks and for the companies he acquired in full. It gets more difficult for him to continue to find companies that are big enough to be meaningful to his Berkshire
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Here is a list of websites that allow traders to download historical stock data for the U.S. stock market. Yahoo Finance allows download data manually from its website: One of the best places to get free historical end of day price data going back over 60 years is still finance.yahoo.com. Yahoo Finance provides historical price
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Dan Zanger is a modern day legend in the trading world. His mother Elaine loved the stock market and as a child Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock make a big move on the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1.
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How to read stock charts is one of the first skills a new trader should develop as their technical trading method, system. and plan will emerge from this foundational skill. Reading stock charts will show the trader whether a chart is in an uptrend, downtrend, in a range, or highly volatile. Chart patterns are visual representations
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Chick-Fil-A is not a publicly traded stock, has no ticker symbol or stock price. The Chick-fil-A company is privately owned and estimated to be worth $4.5 billion. The private equity shares are divided between the three sons of the founder Samuel Truett-Cathy. Chick-fil-A was named the number one restaurant brand in America for six straight
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Hulu does not have a stock price because it is owned by other corporations. There is no publicly traded Hulu stock, it is a corporate owned joint-venture. There is no Hulu stock price quote or a ticker symbol for the company. Hulu can be indirectly invested in my buying shares of Disney stock (DIS) or
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TikTok stock is currently in private equity shares with a majority owned by ByteDance Limited which is also a private Chinese company still in its start up phase. Tiktok stock is not publicly traded on an exchange. There is no way to buy TikTok shares in the stock market because neither it nor its parent
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What is Fintwit? Fintwit started on Twitter in 2008 as a network of traders and investors who shared financial news, information, charts, economic data, stock picks and forecasts. The website Stocktwits.com was also founded in 2008 with the same concept as the FinTwit community. Stocktwits.com invented the cashtag ‘$’ in front of a ticker symbol
What are penny stocks? The term penny stocks most commonly refers to the stock of a small company that is priced at $5 a share or less. Few penny stocks trade on major exchanges like the NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Most traditional penny stocks are not listed on any exchange and instead
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In my opinion these are the best stock market movies ever made based on popularity and entertainment value. There are also many lessons that can be learned from these movies about greed, fear, bubbles, and investing. The Big Short: This is my all-time favorite trading movie that explains a lot about the 2008 stock market
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The descending wedge chart pattern more commonly known as the falling wedge can fit in the continuation or reversal category. When it is a continuation pattern it will trend down, however the slope in the wedge will be against the overall market uptrend. When it is a reversal pattern, the falling wedge trends down when
Below is a list of the current most shorted stocks on the NYSE with short interest of over 20%. I have listed the ticker symbol, company name, and percent of short interest in relation to the shares outstanding. This data is for companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange only. Stocks with extremely high
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Below is a list of the current most shorted stocks with the highest short interest as of the last update across all stock exchanges. Most exchanges do month end reporting. So it is constantly changing but is delayed in reporting. Be aware that the NASDAQ short interest is updated twice a month. Short interest data is
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IV crush stands for implied volatility crush and is a description of what happens to options vega premium when it drops dramatically out of the pricing model of an option chain. This usually happens after a major risk or news event has passed for the underlying stock or market for the option contract. The most
What does the current Warren Buffett house look like? Warren Buffett still lives in the house he bought for $31,500 in 1958. Inflation adjusted to 2021 dollars it cost him $286,676 in 1958 buying power. His house is a 6,570 square feet stucco house that has 5 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. His home is located
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A pip calculator will help a trader determine the value per pip for a currency pair, this is to manage position sizing and risk per trade. A trader needs the currency your account is denominated in, the currency pair that is being traded, position size of the trade, and the exchange rate asked to calculate
This is a sample chapter from my book The Ultimate Guide to Chart Patterns. Chart Facts: • The ascending triangle is a bullish chart pattern that usually forms during an uptrend as a continuation pattern. • Sometimes an ascending triangle pattern will form as a reversal pattern as a downtrend comes to an end, but they
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