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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Market Leaders And Why They’re Important
“Watch the market leaders, the stocks that have led the charge upward in a bull market. That is where the action is and where the money is to be made. As the leaders go, so goes the entire market. If you cannot make money in the leaders, you are not going to make money in […]
Why The Stock Market Closes
A stock market or a stock exchange is a physical place or digital platform where day traders and other types of investors buy or sell stocks or shares of publicly listed companies. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange, founded in the late sixteenth century, is the world’s oldest stock market. A stock or a share represents […]
How To Have An Endless Source of Trading Ideas
If you want a TL;DR for this article, the main idea is that creating a consistent and easily repeatable process for your trading is the best way to never run out of trading ideas. Endlessly tweaking screener parameters and cycling through different software platforms doesn’t generate ideas–those are simply tools that make your process quicker […]
ORTEX Financial Analytics Review 2022
Brief Overview Through a single platform, ORTEX delivers multiple analysis tools for a variety of investment vehicles. If information is what you seek, ORTEX may have an answer. Services Offered ORTEX specializes in data analytics on the following investment vehicles: Cryptocurrencies ETFs Equity options Indexes Traditional currencies IPOs Commodities And stocks, of course It’s […]
Stock Market Overview For Week of March 7, 2022
It was another week with a VIX above 30, whipsaw price action in the US indexes and relentless bullishness in crude oil. This is all of course a direct result of the uncertainty created by the volatile situation in Ukraine. Before we move onto the situation in Ukraine, let’s take a look at what markets […]
What Are Market Internals and How To Use Them
Market internals are indexes that serve to provide additional context beyond price about how the broad stock market is performing. or example, the most popular market internal is the Advance-Decline Index, which is a measure of the net number of stocks that went up today (number of advancing stocks – number of declining stocks […]
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Bullish On Energy?
Energy, after several years of underperformance and overall decreased mainstream relevance in the financial markets, is making a big return. And following the price action driven by the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the sentiment around it seems to have gotten considerably more bullish. And the ETF flows into the primary crude oil ETF (USO) confirm this: […]
Understanding the Power Hour in Stocks
The power hour in stocks is typically referred to as the last hour of the trading day between 3 and 4 PM EST. Intro It’s well know that the regular trading hours for the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Market (NYSE) are 9:30 a.m. ET to 4 p.m. ET on weekdays […]
Risks and Opportunities in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
A Quick Primer on What is Happening Russia, and Ukraine are embroiled in a territorial conflict right now. It’s actually been heating up for a while, with Russian troops being stationed along the Ukrainian border since March 2021. Early on Thursday 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in full-force, with explosions occurring in Kyiv, Ukraine’s biggest […]