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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This is a sample chapter from my book The Ultimate Guide to Chart Patterns. Bull flag pattern chart facts: The bull flag is a continuation pattern of the previous uptrend. A bull flag chart pattern occurs after an uptrend out of a previous price base. The ‘pole’ is represented by the previous uptrend in price before
Here are four of the best bitcoin trading strategies using moving average crossover signals to swing trade and trend trade the ^BTCUSD pair. These are examples of trading signals for capturing moves to the upside and going to cash if price starts moving down. 5 day / 20 day ema crossover: Flying Eagle 5 day
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This is a sample chapter from my book The Ultimate Guide to Chart Patterns. The cup and handle pattern is a bullish continuation pattern and momentum buy signal as it breaks out of the ‘handle’ in the formation. It was originally intended to be used with high growth stocks within the ‘CAN SLIM’ system. I
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Heikin Ashi candlestick charts are a different variation of traditional Japanese candlesticks. Heikin Ashi candlesticks use the opening and closing price data from the previous period and also the opening-high-low-closing price data from the current period to build a combination candlestick. The Heikin Ashi formula candlestick filters out a lot of the price action noise
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What is the best moving average crossover for swing trading? My favorite moving average crossover for swing trading that I have also confirmed through backtesting on the momentum names on my watchlist is the 5 day exponential moving average / 20 day exponential moving average crossover on the daily chart. I call this bullish crossover
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