A hammer is a candlestick pattern when a stock opens then moves a lot lower during the day then rallies back near the opening price. This candlestick pattern looks like a hammer with the long lower wick from the lows of the day looking like the handle and the opening and closing price body form […]
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In a publicly traded company there are customers who buy their products, employees who get paid for there time and work, there are bond holders that get paid interest on the company debt they own, and then there are the investors that hold the company stock and own equity in the company. Traders also buy
In probability theory a normal distribution is a kind of probability distribution with a set value of random variables. The normal distribution formula is: Normal distributions are valuable in statistical analysis and is used a lot in trading to set values on random variables of future distributions that are not known. Normal distribution states that under market conditions over many average
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While Marijuana is still illegal in the United States on the federal level many states have legalized it inside their own state borders. Cannabis use has been legalized for medical uses with a doctor’s approval in 33 states in the union, four U.S. territories, and also Washington D.C. creating the potential for a new legal
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A shooting star candle or pin bar reversal is a bearish candlestick pattern when it appears during an uptrend on a chart. A shooting star tends to have long upper wicks and almost no lower wicks along with a candle body that is usually small. A shooting star usually happens when a stock opens and
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The laws of supply and demand are foundation economic principles that is the primary motivation for producers and consumers in making their decisions. The law of demand says the higher the price of a product the less customers will want of a product or service. Demand is set from the law of diminishing value versus price,
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What is the best way to invest in gold? There are many options like buying bullion, buying gold coins, buying gold futures contracts, and buying a gold exchange traded fund in the stock market. I believe the best way is to simply buy the State Street SPDR ETF with the ticker symbol GLD in your
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we analyze the moves made by SPY, QQQ, and IWM over the last week and beyond. Get ready for the last two trading days of the year into next week! Will we start the year on a good or bad foot?
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Options trading is when you buy and sell contracts that give you the right to purchase or sell a block of an underlying asset at a set price during a specific time frame. Options are not assets they are bets on a potential asset moving in price. An option chain gives you prices on different
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A debt-to-equity ratio (Or D/E) is the ratio in finance that shows the relation of the size of a company’s outstanding debt in relation to a company’s market cap versus what the business owes after financing the purchase of assets, research and development, and product launches. The debt to equity ratio is similar to leverage.
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Creative destruction (Also sometimes known as Schumpeter’s gale), is a concept of economics which is known primarily from Joseph Schumpeter who was an Austrian economist. The theory of creative destruction originally came from the writings of Karl Marx and it became a popular theory for the business cycle of innovation and destruction. Schumpeter said that
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction Ray Dalio is an American billionaire who is a legend in the investing and hedge fund communities. He is the founder, CIO, and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, one of the major players in the investment world. As of June 2019, he was ranked as the 58th wealthiest person
Moving averages are technical trading indicators for capturing trends. This post shows the backtesting data and system equity curve versus buy and hold using TrendSpider.com. This is the backtest based on buying $QQQ when the 5 day EMA crosses and closes over the 20 day EMA and then selling when the 5 day EMA closes
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The Sortino ratio is a way to measure the risk adjusted return of an asset, investment portfolio, or trading strategy. The Sortino ratio is an adjustment to the Sharpe Ratio that filters volatility from upside moves from downside moves. The Sortino ratio only measures downside moves that are below a specified volatility target or return
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Below are the stock holdings of publicly traded stocks held by Warren Buffett inside his Berkshire Hathaway portfolio as of September 30, 2019 based on the 13F filing on November 14, 2019 report that is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is a great place to look for creating your own watch list for
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Simple interest is only calculated on the original amount of capital inside a set time period. It does not include the compounding effect of returns on new money accrued. Simple interest can be used over any time period but annual returns is the one that is most commonly used. Simple interest is calculated on original principle alone. Compound interest includes the additional
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A Monte Carlo simulation is a process used to show all the potential outcomes of a trading system, business model, supply chain, scientific theory, insurance, research and development, or a casino. A Monte Carlo simulation uses the most important available metrics of a system including inputs of size of wins and losses along with win
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The rule of 72 is a process for quickly projecting how long it will take for a rate of investment return to make capital double. The number 72 is used in figuring out the answer by dividing the rate of return percentage per period to get an approximation of the number of years in most
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The Sharpe Ratio was developed it in 1966 by William F. Sharpe as a way to quantify potential risk in an individual investment or an investing method or trading strategy. The Sharpe Ratio is the defined difference of the returns between an investment and the potential risk free return that is then divided by the standard deviation/volatility of the
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Inside probability theory, conditional probability is a way to calculate and measure the probability of some event happening if another event has already occurred. The Bayes’ Theorem is one way of calculating a probability of something occurring when you know probabilities of other things happening. The Bayes’ theorem is a mathematical formula that explains how to
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