This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF’s had quite a whipsaw week. Don’t miss the TrendSpider Sunday Chart show at 6 PM EST as we discuss the markets into the final weeks of 2019 with Greg Krupinski. Register below!
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The ROI (return on investment) is the ratio between net profit and the cost of an investment. This is measured over a specific period of time by the results of investment returns on money over a point in time. A good ROI is defined by an investment’s positive returns compared to the cost, risk, and
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In statistics, the standard deviation is a measurement of the magnitude of variation of a set of numbers that represent values. A smaller standard deviation shows that values are closer to the mean or average expectations of a set of data. A higher standard deviation shows that the values are more varied and over a
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With the current phase one of the China trade deal still not signed or even in written form this month there is a high probability that new tariffs could start as scheduled on December 15th . President Trump could extend new punitive tariffs to all of the Chinese imported goods this month. The Trump administration
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I recently read Greg Zuckerman’s new book ‘The Man Who Solved The Market’ and he has done a great job giving readers a peak inside the secretive world of Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies hedge fund operations. Jim Simons Renaissance Technologies has been the greatest money making operation in the modern financial markets. No other
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GDP are initials that are used in place of writing out ‘Gross Domestic Product’. An annual gross domestic product for a country is the total sum of the financial value of all created and manufactured goods along with services produced in one nation that are sold on the home and world markets during a one
What is the current Apple market cap? A company’s value is based on the amount of outstanding shares multiplied by the current stock price, this gives it the company’s market capitalization. I company with one million outstanding shares with a stock price of $100 would have a $100 million dollar market cap: $100 multiplied by
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Financial freedom is when you no longer rely on paychecks from your job each month to pay your bills. You are independent from a company and a boss, you make money on your own terms or have enough money to pay your bills in perpetuity with no need for more. When you achieve financial freedom
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While modern traders are spoiled with the ease we have of seeing moving averages on our charting platforms in an instant, older traders had to calculate them for their self and update their own charts by hand drawing them daily before the days of better computing power and software. Many believe this gave them a
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When asked to name the greatest invention in human history, Albert Einstein simply replied “compound interest.” Albert Einstein is also credited with saying: “Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.” Compound interest or compounded returns is when your money makes money on previous returns or
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Symmetrical Triangle Pattern Chart Facts: The symmetrical triangle is a neutral chart pattern that usually forms during a trend as a continuation pattern of the existing trend. Sometimes an symmetrical triangle pattern will form as a reversal pattern as a trend comes to an end, but they are usually continuation patterns of an existing trend
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Chart Facts about the Descending Triangle chart pattern: The descending triangle is a bearish chart pattern that usually forms during a down trend as a continuation pattern. Sometimes a descending triangle pattern will form as a reversal pattern as an uptrend comes to an end, but they are usually continuation patterns in a down trend.
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Margin trading is when your broker adds buying power to your account to increase the size you can trade and the quantity of trades you can make. Margin can be used to add leverage to your trades or faster turnover on your trades without having to wait for them to clear after entering and exiting.
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Mutual funds have existed in the United States since the 1890s. Most of the first mutual funds had a set number of shares and were closed-end funds that many times traded at prices that were higher than the composite of the portfolios of stocks they had as holdings. Open-end mutual funds that had redeemable shares were
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF’s as the market continued to grind up to create new “All-Time Highs” and then pulled back to close slightly down for the week. Don’t miss the Sunday Chart’s LIVE show on at 9 AM this
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An ETF is an exchange traded fund that trades on an exchange like a stock but holds a collection of assets that try to mirror a stock index, sector, commodity, bond, currency or investment style. Unlike a mutual fund an ETF can trade any time the stock market is open until it closes and even
WeWork was founded in 2010 in New York City, it leases office buildings then plans and creates offices with services for companies and individuals to use as work spaces. The We Company is the parent company of WeWork. In August of 2017 We Work had a $21.2 billion valuation. WeWork lost over $2 billion in operations
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Option pricing is based on the current probabilities that the option will expire in-the-money. Option contract prices are determined using the Black-Scholes pricing model for time, volatility, and the distance from the strike price. Basically the odds that the option will expire in-the-money with some intrinsic value are the main factor that goes into the
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Here is a list of the current most valuable publicly traded companies in the world by market capitalization as of November 20, 2019. On this list there are five NASDAQ listed stocks and four NYSE listed stocks and one company that trades on the OTC market because it is a Chinese company not listed on
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Popular thinking about retirement is that people work hard for 40 years at their job and then in their mid sixties they can finally stop working and enjoy the remainder of their life thanks to some type of combination of Social Security, retirement account funds, and if they were lucky a defined pension plan. People
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