If you’re like most traders, you specifically avoid “event volatility” like earnings reports and key economic data releases. But you should know that the majority of volatility is attributable to these binary catalyst events. Not knowing how to trade around these significantly cuts into your opportunity set. One of the cornerstones of volatility events is […]
Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend. This is the unofficial start of summer, especially in the finance world, and typically marks an overall decrease in volume as Wall Street starts to split its focus between Fire Island, the Hamptons, and work. Following the long weekend, we had a shortened trading week this […]
What’s up, everyone? All right. So the topic of today’s episode is The Banana Squeeze. If you haven’t heard of the banana squeeze, this is technical set up. Every day traders should know about the banana squeeze. Learn More About the Banana Squeeze Here! You may have even traded a banana squeeze, but […]
A pivot point is a crucial turning point in the price of a stock or security that a lot of traders tend to trade around. It’s basically a price at which the stock stops going up or down and reverses in the opposite direction. It’s the price at the foremost extreme of a rally. Pivot […]
A candlestick shadow represents the extremes of where the price visited during the life of a candlestick on a chart before closing at its ultimate price. On a bullish candlestick, the shadows represent the difference between the closing price and the high price (upper shadow), and on a bearish candlestick the shadow represents the difference […]
The Chaikin Money Flow is a technical analysis indicator that is used to measure the buying and selling pressure in a stock over a period of time. Intro In the world of trading, huge market movements are usually triggered by the actions of giant hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, brokers, and other whales that trade the […]
The trend is an important feature of trading that traders use to help them read the market movement better, so they can execute their trading strategies at the perfect moment. Trend strength simply refers to the level of influence buyers or sellers have over the market over a particular time. In a weak downtrend, the […]
Technical trading is such a diverse method of trading that you really can’t pigeonhole it. There’s trend traders, mean reversion traders, breakout traders, and pullback traders. You can trade support and resistance levels, forecast volume and volatility, or even do technical analysis on the VIX or the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet (maybe that’s not a […]
As one of the biggest brands in the world, you might think that owning shares in energy drinks company Red Bull is a great investment. It might shock you to know, then, that it is not possible to own Red Bull stock. Red Bull is a multinational company with a hand in several industries including […]
Meme stocks are back and yet again. After months of commentators creating narratives that the retail phenomenon experienced in 2020 and 2021 was simply aberration, often citing exchange volume data as proof, have yet again been dashed as this small group of stocks like GameStop (GME), and AMC Entertainment (AMC) and a sub-group of related […]
