Have you ever taken a bet that went pretty south? In the simplest of terms, that’s what a short squeeze is. Short sellers take a gamble betting that a stock will decline, but when unexpected news arises—or retail traders swoop[…..]
When analyzing the market as a whole, you’ve most likely heard the terms “bear market” and “bull market.” You’ve also probably heard how one is essentially “bad” and the other is essentially “good.” But how do you actually analyze these[…..]
The ringing of the bell on Wall Street is a time-honored tradition signifying the beginning and ending of the daily trading session. Now more than 100 years later, the bell ringing has become a bit of a pageant. Instead of[…..]
When your TV is on CNBC or Bloomberg, you’ll almost always see a little box in the lower right-hand corner tracking the daily progress of the big three American indices: Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and the NASDAQ Composite.[…..]
You may be wondering, how does psychology impact my trading success? A lot actually. Psychology has to do with how you make trading decisions and formulate a trading plan. As a trader, you’re expected to make quick decisions. Sometimes emotions[…..]
Your trading day would technically be incomplete without a mention of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the news. And while you’ve often heard reports about the DJIA being down or up by a number of points, these movements won’t[…..]
As we’ve seen for the last decade, bull markets can run for quite a while. But every now and then a bull market will get too far ahead of itself and a sudden drop in prices may occur. When stocks[…..]
If you’re still a novice trader, one whose strategies haven’t grown toward the more sophisticated side of things, your trade entries and exits might need some guidance. You need to familiarize yourself with stock order types, but this may not[…..]
Who doesn’t love a good underdog story, right? Small cap vs. large cap stocks might seem like a battle of David vs Goliath considering the size of some of the biggest US companies right now, but sometimes being small has[…..]
In the business world, we observe transactions as an agreement with a buyer and seller. The buyer is an individual or institution that wants to buy a security while the seller already owns a security and hopes to turn it[…..]