http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com The Nasdaq 100 index is one of the most analyzed indexes on the US stock market. It comprises one hundred biggest non financial companies from the technology market sector. The Nasdaq 100 index is also known as a hi-tech index. We may say with high degree... http://www.a1articles.com/why-nasdaq-100-2239672.html 19th May 2011 When you come to the stock market you have several choices in selection of what to trade. If judge by trading volume we could say that among the main choices are stocks, currencies, exchange traded funds (ETFs), options and futures. By no going into a de... http://www.a1articles.com/why-etfs-investing-2222708.html 11th May 2011 I have already written a lot about different aspects of technical analysis. Still, I would like to come back to this one of the most popular topics among traders and discuss other types of analysis traders are relying upon.When it comes to the making a tr... http://www.a1articles.com/technical-analysis-indicators-2198647.html 27th April 2011 Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are becoming more and more popular among ordinary traders and institutional investors. The biggest advantage of the exchange traded funds is the ability of diversification with a single purchase - many traders do not have enou... http://www.a1articles.com/investing-into-etfs-2175758.html 08th April 2011 Price studies in the technical analysis have been from the beginning of the technical analysis itself. This is the oldest and most popular indicators among institutional and retail traders. There are a lot of various ways build around analysis of the pric... http://www.a1articles.com/price-based-analysis-2102409.html 09th March 2011 Advance decline technical analysis is one of the most popular types of the analysis applied to the indexes and exchanges. This type of the analysis is unique in its nature as it cannot be applied to stocks, futures, currencies and many other tradable secu... http://www.a1articles.com/advance-decline-analysis-2102408.html 09th March 2011 Technical analysis is based on the learning and analyzing technical studies and indicators. Among various groups of technical indicators you may find indicators based on price data, volume data and advance decline data. The volume, price and advance decli... http://www.a1articles.com/using-technical-indicators-1969677.html 19th January 2011 In various sources you may find different explanation of the engine that is behind the stock market trend. Still the main reason of price movements on free market is supply demand balance. If the buyers (those who demand) are rushing with buying and, in o... http://www.a1articles.com/supply-demand-balance-1803657.html 20th October 2010 When it comes to the emini index trading such as S&P 500 emini index futures (ES), Russell 2000 emini index futures (TFS), e-mini Nasdaq 100 index futures (NQ), mini-sized DJI index futures (YM) or any other futures that track the performance of the index... http://www.a1articles.com/emini-index-futures-1780317.html 06th October 2010 The further we go in development the further stock market goes from the economy. The last stock market crash reveals that the bubble and crashes on the stock market drive the economy into recession; yet, the recovery on the market does not affect the econ... http://www.a1articles.com/market-and-economy-1762977.html 24th September 2010 Some traders confuse economic news analysis with listening CNN and other news channels that provide financial information on TV not understanding that the majority of the media sources are focused on the entertaining of the general public and simply are n... http://www.a1articles.com/financial-media-sources-1717759.html 25th August 2010 When it comes to the selection of a broker or investment advisor for personal investments, many traders became confused. The first thing that a potential investor has to remember is that whoever you chose as your broker will not care about your investment... http://www.a1articles.com/brokers-and-advisors-1717746.html 25th August 2010 When the stock market drops 16% down it scares many investors, especially when the dramatic days of the last market crash are still fresh in the memory of many retail and institutional traders. It has been less than two years since the stock market dived,... http://www.a1articles.com/recession-or-recovery-1651013.html 13th July 2010 It is common for novice traders, when it comes to making first steps in stock market analysis, refer to the news. Traders watch CNN, read Barons, browse Yahoo Finance and look through other financial media sources by hunting for a professional investments... http://www.a1articles.com/economic-reports-analysis-1641013.html 07th July 2010 On May 14, 2010 the US stock market plunged strongly down by beating all historical records. The DOW Jones Industrials, S&P 500 and other indexes suffered huge losses. Some public companies went down to pennies from $30 and higher. Later, media explained ... http://www.a1articles.com/stock-market-plunge-1561809.html 21st May 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/charts-for-trading-1529138.html 04th May 2010 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 ... http://www.a1articles.com/qqqq-or-spy-1508415.html 19th April 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/fundamentals-of-technical-analysis-1472134.html 26th March 2010 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'... http://www.a1articles.com/volume-in-technical-analysis-1442458.html 11th March 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/technical-analysis-expectations-1415912.html 25th February 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/nasdaq-index-analysis-1391292.html 11th February 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/stocks-or-etfs-1345113.html 14th January 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/about-us-indexes-1329008.html 06th January 2010 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... http://www.a1articles.com/specifics-of-trin-analysis-1294575.html 14th December 2009 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. ... http://www.a1articles.com/analysis-of-moving-averages-1249071.html 24th November 2009 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... http://www.a1articles.com/moving-average-convergencedivergence-1208497.html 30th October 2009 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... http://www.a1articles.com/stoploss-trading-strategy-1140262.html 01st October 2009 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... http://www.a1articles.com/toronto-stock-exchange-975070.html 10th July 2009 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... http://www.a1articles.com/leading-and-lagging-indicators-975068.html 10th July 2009 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... http://www.a1articles.com/advantages-of-etfs-901859.html 19th May 2009 An ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) is an investment vehicle designed to have characteristics of the mutual funds and flexibility of trading as stocks. ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are traded on stock exchanges in the same way the stocks are traded. They could ... http://www.a1articles.com/exchange-traded-funds-901858.html 19th May 2009 Moving average is one of the basic and most popular indicators in technical analysis. From the name of this indicator you may already understand that this indicator shows the average price of a security (stock, option, bond, etc) over specified period of ... http://www.a1articles.com/moving-averages-analysis-851339.html 09th April 2009 Nasdaq Canada is a subsidiary of the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. Putting into simple words, this is the Nasdaq Stock Exchange extended within Canada. Through the Nasdaq Canada Canadian investors have immediate trading access to all Nasdaq listed stocks which... http://www.a1articles.com/nasdaq-canada-market-851333.html 09th April 2009 Not a lot of traders are asking themselves about fundamental analysis by mainly relaying on technical analysis. The logical question could be placed about how far a trader may rely on technical analysis without consulting fundamental approaches. Before an... http://www.a1articles.com/fundamental-versus-technical-803224.html 02nd March 2009 By selecting an online trading system the most common question is how much to invest in this system. This question is very simple, yet, many traders could be confused and do not know how to calculate minimum invested amount for a particular trading system... http://www.a1articles.com/minimum-invested-in-system-803221.html 02nd March 2009 Technical analysis has been developed into the complicated science that is in the constant research and development. Started more than hundred years ago with introduction of DOW indexes now technical analysis covers indexes that track different markets, t... http://www.a1articles.com/indicators-in-technical-analysis-729152.html 29th December 2008 Stochastics is one of the most used technical indicators in the analysis of the security trends. Developed more than a half of century ago this indicator shows how far away is the current security price is from the most recent low and high.For instance, S... http://www.a1articles.com/stochastics-in-technical-analysis-729151.html 29th December 2008 In general all technical studies could be divided into four categories: a) price based; b) volume based; c) breadth indicators; d) combined studies.Price BasedPrice based studies are the most popular due to simplicity of implementation in technical analys... http://www.a1articles.com/types-of-technical-studies-676387.html 27th October 2008 Over the last couple of years the NASDAQ Exchange has lunched a big number of different indices that cover not just NASDAQ market and US economy, but characterize the different markets all over the globe.The same as before the NASDAQ 100 and NASDAQ Compos... http://www.a1articles.com/about-nasdaq-indexes-676106.html 27th October 2008 New Highs and New Lows indicators show the number of stocks hitting new 52-week highs or lows respectively. As a rule these indicators are applied to the basket of stocks: indexes and exchanges. The most common application of this technical study is apply... http://www.a1articles.com/new-highs-and-lows-614251.html 02nd September 2008 VO (Volume Oscillator) is a basic volume based indicator in technical analysis. Such indicators as MVO (MarketVolume Oscillator) and PVO (Percentage Volume Oscillator) are based on the VO and it is essential to understand the physics behind the Volume Osc... http://www.a1articles.com/the-volume-oscillator-607661.html 22nd August 2008 The VAO (Volume Accumulation Oscillator) was developed by Mark Chaikin and in some cases this technical indicator is called the Chaikin Oscillator. In technical analysis the VAO oscillator is used to show the cumulative volume that is adjusted by the aver... http://www.a1articles.com/volume-accumulation-oscillator-602034.html 17th August 2008 Dow Jones was founded by Charles Henry Dow, Edward Davis Jones and Charles Milford Bergstresser on Wall Street in New York. At that time the company was called Dow, Jones & Company and the company produced and delivered daily news bulletins called to subs... http://www.a1articles.com/the-dow-indexes-560519.html 21st June 2008 Nasdaq100 index is one of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq 100 stock exchange. This index is value-weighted. Nasdaq100 does not contain financial companies. This index is therefore different from the S&P500 and the Dow Jones Indust... http://www.a1articles.com/nasdaq-100-index-555056.html 11th June 2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is tracked at the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DJI (NYSE: DJI) and is maintained and reviewed by editors of The Wall Street Journal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is also called the DJIA or infor... http://www.a1articles.com/dow-jones-industrials-509976.html 07th April 2008