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 […]
In the stock trading world, a lot refers to the standardized number of units of a stock or security being traded. An odd lot is when a trader buys or sells shares in increments less than a hundred. Often, the actual value of a stock or security means that buying or selling just a […]
Today is a red day recap, back in the saddle and in the red. So, it was a green day before I ran into DCFC and I have about a thousand dollars of profit in my main account and then profit in my retirement. Let’s look at the day how it unfolded […]
A lot is made of the relative advantages that institutional traders have over retail traders. Some financial professionals even take the view that the disparity between the two groups is so wide that it’s not even worth trading retail. They say that retail traders’ time is better spent learning a transferable skill while passively […]
In some of our recent blog posts, we have discussed how moving averages are frequently used by technical analysts and traders to analyze the prices of stocks and other securities. Moving averages are important because they smooth out price fluctuations to help traders distinguish between market noise and the underlying trend. In this post, […]
An Intermarket Sweep Order (ISO) is typically a large order that gets sent to several exchanges simultaneously for the purpose of quickly taking as much liquidity as possible. The factor that divides the ISO from other order types is that it is exempt from the ‘trade-through’ aspect of the SEC’s Order Protection Rule (Rule […]
Hey, everyone. All right. I’m going to give folks a second to get tuned in here. So this is a live broadcast and what I’m going to talk about in this video is why we hold losers too long. This is something that a lot of traders struggle with. It’s something that I struggled […]
There’s endless media stories about how many new and young millionaires the crypto market has created. While crypto isn’t new (it’s been around in some form since 2009 with the advent of Bitcoin), it’s only reached the high level of mainstream appeal since 2020. As such, you can hardly go to a bar and […]
There’s a concept in trading known as “carry trading,” which is basically how much the asset pays (or costs) you to own it, aside from price appreciation (although there are some exceptions which we’ll explore in this article). A bond, for example, has positive carry in the form of regular interest payments. On the […]
As trading gets underway in 2022, the U.S. stock market faces an uncertain future. Will traders take profits after the widely-followed S&P 500 index more than doubled in 2021 or is the January Effect going to give the market an extra boost? The January Effect continuously fascinates market participants and analysts because it frequently […]
