In trading, a ‘Bull Trap’ is considered a rally in price that creates a false momentum signal to go long because the downtrend looks like it is over and reversing back to an uptrend in price but it is a false signal and the market returns to a downtrend trapping longs who then need to […]
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In trading and investing, risk management is defined as the process of understanding, identifying, adjusting and managing all of the potential risks that an account is exposed to so the size of losses and drawdowns are minimized for the magnitude of negative impact they will have on a systems risk of ruin and long term profitability. Some examples of possible risks to investment
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Open interest quantity shows the total number of active contracts in each strike price and expiration date. Open interest is one of the columns displayed in an option pricing chain along with the current contract price, price change, bid price, ask price, and volume. Open interest shows the current total number of option contracts that
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This is a guest post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend blog post, we take a look at the continued wild ride the markets took last week. Make sure to check out our Sunday Chart Show this weekend at 6 PM EST with Mike Pisani, founder of smartoptiontrading.com!
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In the financial markets a dead cat bounce is a small, brief rebound in the price of a stock, commodity, or currency that is in a long term downtrend. The mechanics of a dead cat bounce is that it stops going lower and puts in a short term low in price and then surges higher for a few
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A death cross is one of the most popular bearish moving average crossovers in the trading world. It is a bearish signal that means the stock market is in a downtrend and could go much lower when the 50-day simple moving average crosses under the 200-day simple moving average from above. It shows a loss
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The stock market downside price limits during U.S. trading hours from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. central time are successive lower price limits on the S&P 500 index in tiers based on being down over 7%, 13%, and then 20% with a decline below the previous trading day’s closing price as a reference point. New York
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Here are the ten strongest companies for both technical chart patterns and fundamental company sales and earnings during the coronavirus pandemic. MRNA- Moderna, Inc. operates at the clinical stage as a biotechnology company, it develops therapeutics and vaccines based on messenger RNA for the treatment of infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. Trial of a
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This blog post is meant to answer the questions for friends and family that are not as plugged in or knowledgeable as traders and seasoned investors and wonder why the stock market is falling so fast in March of 2020. Stocks are priced today based on future expectations of a company’s stock value due to
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