Market breadth is a concept from technical analysis that uses various comparison measures of advancing and declining company stock prices to gauge overall market sentiment. The degree to which companies are advancing relative to companies that are declining is seen as a measure of current market trends. The Theory of Market Breadth The use of […]
A market cycle is any process related to securities that is perceived to operate on a somewhat predictable and repetitive pattern. A market cycle could be related to a specific industrial sector, a subset of stocks or an interrelationship between commodities, among many other possible examples. The most well-known and accepted market cycle is the […]
Dow theory is a theory related to the general business cycle that uses Dow Jones compiled averages to interpret the strength of any proposed expansion or contraction of the market. Under this theory, if both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJTA) are crossing new highs or lows, then […]
A mining rig is any computer that is used to process the distributed digital ledger at the core of a cryptocurrency. Some mining rigs are dedicated computers designed to maximize the return on the purchase price and running cost, while other mining rigs are merely used casually or part-time when they are not performing other […]
In the cryptocurrency sector, cold storage is the act of storing cryptocurrency ID keys somewhere that is inaccessible through the Internet. Cold storage is intended as a means of protecting the ownership of coins from malicious hacking. An ID Key For Every Cryptocurrency Coin Cryptocurrencies are a digital form of currency, so there is no […]
Proof of work is a cryptographic term describing a system or function that requires work or effort on the part of a user. It is essential to the mining process that drives a cryptocurrency, where the distributed digital ledger at the core of a cryptocurrency is updated by users who are required to perform costly […]
A fork is a cryptocurrency term that refers to a division of one cryptocurrency format into two or more successor cryptocurrency formats, where one of the successor formats may or may not remain the same as the original. Forks in a cryptocurrency occur when there is a disagreement within the largely decentralized governance of a […]
Altcoin is a colloquial term used in finance to describe any of Bitcoin’s successor and competitor cryptocurrencies. While there is no hard rule for what defines an altcoin, they generally have the same features as Bitcoin (peer-to-peer exchange, mining, etc), while also purporting to improve on one or more of Bitcoin’s suggested shortcomings. Some examples […]
An initial coin offering (ICO) is a form of business financing based on the creation and distribution of a new cryptocurrency. Initial investors in a new business or venture, almost always related to the cryptocurrency or blockchain sector, are given a new cryptocurrency coin in exchange for their funding. The intended use of these coins […]
An American depository trust or American depository receipt (ADR) is a negotiable certificate that represents a specified number of shares of a stock listed on a foreign exchange that are held by a U.S. financial institution. American depository trusts offer all the benefits of conventional stock ownership, such as dividends and shareholder rights, but with […]
