By now, most people have heard about the blowup in various media stocks like Discovery (DISCA), Viacom (VIAC), and Tencent (TME). The financial media reports that a family office run by a Tiger Cub blew up due to its massive leveraged position in these stocks. The story has been told ad nauseam. The fund […]
It’s very easy to get tunnel vision staring at a 1-minute intraday chart. While you might have an excellent feel for where a stock might go for the next few ticks, you can quickly lose sight of the big picture. The use of multiple time-frames in technical trading can really help traders understand the […]
Moving averages are among the most popular tools for all forms of trading. Day traders and swing traders use them to track the average price of financial instruments over a given time period as part of their trading strategies. Traders rely on moving averages to provide an overview of average price movement and filter […]
Swing trading basically refers to a short-term trade that lasts longer than one day and less than a month. Unlike day trading where people look to capture one piece of a more significant move, swing trading involves trying to capture an entire leg or swing upwards/downwards. In this article, we look at understanding swing […]
Brief Overview Market Gear is an online platform that offers educational, social networking, journaling, analysis, and even trading opportunities. With a free trial, it’s definitely worth checking out. Services Offered Market Gear’s first specialty is in trade analysis and journaling. Trades can be categorized by account type (live or simulated) and tracked with hashtags. […]
Today the market is entirely electronic. You generate digital order tickets and route them to an electronic exchange that automatically matches your orders with corresponding orders, or else it sits on the digital order book waiting for another trader to route an order that satisfies it. Outside of some hiccups created by high-frequency traders, […]
Day trading has grown in popularity particularly in the past year as more and more individuals sought financial freedom and the ability to live life in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling to them amid the global coronavirus crisis. The surge in amateur day traders has helped to create a record number of new […]
The Roblox IPO is set to take place in March and with all the buzz around gaming, we can expect a lot of traders will have this name on their radar. They will be going public on the New York Stock Exchange this month. It’s growing super fast, and with revenue of less than […]
Whether your an investor or a day trader, knowing how to tell if a stock is bottoming out is a great way to find good entries in stocks. “Buy the dip” is one of the biggest memes on Financial Twitter (‘fintwit’). Users like Ramp Capital are famous for their relentless bullishness in the face of […]
What is a Blow-Off Top? In a vacuum, a blow-off top is a steep increase in volatility, volume, and rate of price change which ultimately leads to a collapse in the opposite direction. On a chart, the price pattern often resembles a cone. It steeply increases, reaches an extreme high, then steeply decreases, with the […]
