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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week was an intense week, inside of markets and out. Russia invaded Ukraine and as of Friday, the conflict was still going at full-force. We’ve published an article on that already, so check that out for a more comprehensive breakdown. But here’s the bullet points as of early Friday: The US and EU levied […]
A gap fill in stocks is when a stocks price moves in the aftermarket hours above or below the close of the previous day and then trades back through the gap. Intro Most day traders are familiar with the fundamental analysis tools commonly used in determining which stocks to trade. Fundamental analysis is the […]
