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Stock Market Overview for Week of March 28, 2022

US stocks are climbing a wall of worry, yet again. Even amidst the most consequential global crisis in decades in the Russia-Ukraine war, stocks are still rising, even to the point of being at pre-invasion levels after this week’s price action.  At the technical level, you couldn’t tell that the entire global economy is being […]

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This Fed Meeting Changed Everything

The March 2022 Federal Reserve meeting represents a massive shift in the Fed’s approach to monetary policy and inflation. For several months, Jay Powell has been flirting with hawkishness, but it’s been all talk. He’d say what everyone wants to hear but refuse to raise rates or taper the Fed’s balance sheet.  Market participants have […]

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Everything About the Island Reversal Pattern

The Island Reversal Pattern is a chart pattern that involves a gap in price, consolidation and then another gap in the opposite direction (creating an island of candles as you’ll see in the below charts). Intro In their attempt to understand the movement of prices in different financial markets, pioneers of technical analysis techniques have […]

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Small Account Guide

Most people who start out trading have a small account, which falls in the $25,000 or less category. Day trading in a small account requires agility and precision in your trading. You don’t have the luxury of a ton of cash to fall back on so trading decisions need to be well thought out and […]

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The Nickel Short Squeeze: What Happened?

The Russia and Ukraine crisis have created countless second and third-order effects in markets that it’s dizzying. Last week, we saw the nickel market come to a complete halt and shut its doors for over a week in response to a violent short squeeze. In short, Russia is the world’s third largest nickel producer and […]

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Market Overview for Week of March 21, 2022

It was another eventful week in markets with the Fed dipping their toes into hawkish water for the first time since 2018, Russia and Ukraine still failing to reach a peace deal or compromise, and insane price action in the Chinese stock market.  Before we go over what happened this week and what will happen […]

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Market Overview for Week of March 14, 2022

It was a very eventful week. We can’t possibly get to everything and still keep things brief. Keep in mind the Stalin quote – “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” when trading these markets.  The Russia/Ukraine war is still going strong with the Russian troops just nine miles […]

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