On a bar chart an inside bar is a single bar which is smaller than the previous one and within the range of the highest price and lowest price of the last price bar. An inside bar can be located in relation to anywhere inside the last bar, the t... Read more
Contango is a situation in the price action of the commodities market where the futures forward price of a commodity is more than the spot price expected of the futures contract at its maturity and delivery date. The opposite condition in the fu... Read more
In the trading world there is an ongoing debate in many circles on whether trading price action alone is best or if technical trading indicators can add value to trading decisions. Many believe that trading based on price alone is the best way... Read more
In my opinion these are the ten top trading movies ever made based on popularity and entertainment value. The Big Short: This is my all-time favorite trading movie. It told the stories of three traders that bet against the housing market bubble... Read more
The marubozu is a Japanese candlestick pattern used as a technical indicator of extreme price action inside a specific time period. The marubozu shows visually that an asset has been bought or sold with momentum in one direction with a candle an... Read more
The broken wing butterfly is an option play that is also called a skip strike butterfly and can be constructed with calls or puts. It is an adjustment to a conventional butterfly option play. This strategy using call options consists of embeddin... Read more
The long high beta, short low beta is a statistical arbitrage trading strategy that is a bet against beta. To implement this type of strategy you must first find stocks with higher betas than the market and short them. The second side of this st... Read more
The married put is an option trading play created usually when a trader is bullish on the stock in the long term but also wants to limit the downside risk of loss in the shorter term. This strategy gives the stock owner all the benefits of ownin... Read more
Here are the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio holdings managed by Warren Buffett as of March 31, 2020 that were reported in the 13F filing to the SEC on May 15, 2020 along with other filings. His portfolio holdings by sector: Information technology... Read more
Here are five of the best movies about finance currently available on Netflix as of this writing. They each explore different areas of finance like business building, leading a corporation, having an edge in blackjack, career risk, and managing... Read more
