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. […]
The stats are pretty clear – over 90% of people who day trade are not able to generate consistent profits. This pretty shocking statistic means only a handful of traders actually have anything to show from their day trading activity and some have sadly lost money. And still millions of people around the world […]
Volume is an important indicator that shows the liquidity of a stock which is important for day traders to be able to open and close a trade. So in this article we are going to look at how to use volume to improve your day trading. The more market players that trade a stock, […]
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 […]
When the average investor thinks about the software Wall Street uses, their mind usually turns to the Bloomberg Terminal. This legendary piece of software was released in the 1980s and is the brainchild of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. The software is as ubiquitous on Wall Street trading desks today as it […]
