Buy to cover is an order type made against a stock with the purpose of closing an existing short position. Traders are required to place the buy order with a broker so as to fulfill the requirements of a margin call or to close a position for a profit. Short selling is the process of […]
Pink sheets refer to a daily list of bid/ask quotations for over-the-counter (OTC) stocks compiled by the National Quotation Bureau. Companies that trade on the pink sheets do not need to meet the stringent requirements for trading on a stock exchange, and the trading of pink sheet stocks is much more lightly regulated than trading […]
Table of contents Paper Trading Explained The Importance of Paper Trading How to Make the Most of Your Paper Trading Experience Getting Ready for the Real Thing Day trading is a very competitive profession where the best of the best can make incredible amounts of money. While there are as many approaches to day trading […]
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Are You Ready To Be A Day Trader? If you are reading this, then you probably already have your own personal vision of what your life will be like as a professional day trader. You will get up early, exercise while catching up on the overnight financial news, eat a healthy breakfast while firing up […]
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The Russell 2000 refers to an index that measures the performance of approx. 2000 small cap companies. As a small cap stock market index, it is maintained by the FTSE which is a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group. It is one of the most common benchmark for mutual funds and the most quoted […]
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Price action is a broad term meant to indicate any movement, or lack thereof, in the price of a stock that is the product of some technical or fundamental factor, or both, as opposed to merely the product of randomness or ‘noise’. The concept of price action is extremely important to all traders, as everyone […]
A bar chart is a graph characterized by a vertical bar and it’s used by technical analysts to learn more about trends. In trading, a single bar is used to represent a single day of trading. As one of the most popular chart type aside from candlesticks, it represents price activity within a given period […]
