Author RSSCharts for Trading
Chart selection is one of the most common task a trader novice faces when he/she starts considering trading. Majority of traders who base their decision on the results of technical analysis use charts to monitor and analyze a traded security. So, what are...
QQQQ or SPY
One of the most common questions when people come to the stock market is what to trade. QQQQ and SPY stocks (by average daily trading volume) are the most traded stocks in the world and in majority situation, this question is narrowed to a choice between ...
Fundamentals of Technical Analysis
Technical analysis has become one of the most popular science of trading. Even it is defined as not exact since that cannot guarantee future price trend, many traders are looking at it as it is a "trail to the gold". Now, when the computerization is devel...
Volume in Technical Analysis
Traditionally, not a lot of traders are paying attention to the volume based technical analysis. Historically, majority of indicators were developed to analyze price movements. There are several reasons why fifty years ago retail and professional traders'...
Technical Analysis Expectations
More and more new investors are coming to the market by diving into trading mainly focusing on technical analysis without paying attentions to the fundamentals. This is not a bad thing and I do not want to state that all of them are wrong. However, I cons...
Nasdaq Index Analysis
Nasdaq Composite index comprises stocks (public companies) that are traded on the Nasdaq exchange. Nasdaq exchange is the biggest over-the-counter stock market exchange in the world. More than three thousands stocks are traded on this electronic stock exc...
Stocks or Etfs
All traders, when they first come to the market are facing a simple question what to trade and what trading vehicle to choose for investments. While there could be different ambitions and some investors are coming to the market for gambling with a purpose...
About US Indexes
I you take the main index groups that cover US economy you will find that S&P group of indexes is the most popular group and securities that track S&P indexes are the most traded ones. The group of Standard & Poors indexes is one of the most widely used a...
Specifics of Trin Analysis
TRIN (Arms Index) has been developed to detect overbought/oversold levels and could be considered as one of the most complex technical studies from the group of Breadth (advance/Decline) indicators in its interpretation. The TRIN indicator is based on the...
Analysis of Moving Averages
In technical analysis a moving average (MA) is used as a tool to analyze a set of price data points (price bars) by creating a set of averaged price data in order to smooth out short-term price movements and swings and highlight longer-term price trends. ...
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence
MACD (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) is one of the most popular studies in the technical analysis. Created by Gerald Appel in the 1960s this indicator reveals the shorter-term trend changes in relegation to the longer-term trend. The MACD formul...
Stop-Loss Trading Strategy
Stop-loss trading strategy is one of the most popular topics among traders. There is no doubt about importance of this question. A trader may have ten winning trades in a row, still, one loss could wipe out whole earned profit if there were no strategy pl...
Toronto Stock Exchange
In the period of the first few sentries in the Canada the main investments were coming from the London capital market. Only in the middle of nineteenth century the Canadian Government, railway, banks and mining stocks and bonds began to emerge.In 1852 the...
Leading and Lagging Indicators
Indicators in technical analysis could be divided into three categories: leading technical indicators, lagging technical indicators and informational technical indicators. These categories cover each known technical indicator depending on it particular ro...
Advantages of Etfs
ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) have been launched in 1993 with introduction of SPDRs that tracks the S&P 500 index. SPDRs remains by now as one of the most traded stock on the stock market. ETFs should be considered as funds that could be traded as stocks a...