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 […]
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 […]
Reddit Inc., the social media network that helped fuel the meme-stock trading mania in the early months of 2021, is about to become a publicly-traded company. The San Francisco-based company made its first step toward becoming public in December as it filed (confidentially) to sell shares on the stock market. Reddit, which got its […]
The U.S. stock market had a ball in 2021 with a solid and steady performance for most of the year, despite Covid-19 concerns. A couple of milestones were achieved by the major stock indices and stock traders luxuriated in the rally. The S&P 500 jumped not only close to 30% but also notched its […]
We often hear phrases like “money on the sidelines” in financial media but they feel like hand-way explanations for one of the most basic things we do as traders: follow the money. This is known as the flow of funds. On any given day, more money might be flowing in or out of the […]
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 […]
Last week was a turbulent one for the stock market, with the S&P 500 declining about 100 points, or about 1.9% as of Thursday’s close. That might not sound like a lot as a number, but the VIX reached its highest level since November 2020 with a high on Monday of 38.94, indicating […]
Pelton (NASDAQ: PTON) stock last Thursday was a bloodbath, dropping 24% on the day after several volatility halts, bringing the stock’s YTD return to a whopping -80%, dropping below it’s IPO price of $29 in trading on Friday. It’s yet another victim in the ongoing carnage of stay-at-home pandemic stocks, which were Wall Street […]
