Written by admin on November 21st, 2010
Share Value
Share value also commonly referred to as share price, reflects the changes in the performance of an asset such as company stock, commodities, investment pools, or mutual funds. The current share value (price) multiplied by the number of shares in the asset, reflects the current market value. Investors determine share value by placing trades based [...]
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Uptick Rule
A now defunct rule established by the SEC that required every short sale transaction to be entered at a price that is higher than the price of the previous trade. Also know as the Short Sale Rule. The uptick rule was aimed at preventing short sellers from adding to the downward momentum when the price [...]
Continue Reading...Written by admin on October 25th, 2010
Keltner Channel
A volatility based technical analysis ‘envelope’ indicator that measures the movement of stocks in relation to an upper and lower moving-average band. Used to predict the trend of the market. Some examples of it’s use are: An overbought signal occurs when prices move above the upper band, and an oversold signal occurs when prices move [...]
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Gap
When price makes a sharp move up or down with no trading occurring at the in between price levels causing a break or “Gap” on the chart. There are four common types of gap patterns, breakaway, common, continuation, and exhaustion. Gaps can be created by factors such as regular buying or selling pressure, earnings announcements, [...]
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Ease Of Movement
A technical analysis, momentum indicator used to show the relationship between the rate of price change and volume. This indicator attempts to identify the amount of volume required to move prices. Generally a value greater than zero is an indication that the stock is being accumulated (bought) and negative values indicate selling pressure. A high [...]
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Cancellation
When a trader has an order at either the broker or exchange, and issues an new order to remove the resting order. During the time the cancel order is placed and the resting order actually being removed by the broker or the exchange, the cancel order will be in a pending state awaiting confirmation. If [...]
Continue Reading...Written by admin on January 21st, 2009
Things Not to do and Use When Daytrading
Daytrading is a very difficult endeavor for anyone who’s tried it. Those who go through it day after day will agree that everyday is different and that each day requires maximum attention. The end of each trading day leaves the daytraders exhausted. But not only does it take stamina, endurance, high degree of concentration and [...]
Continue Reading...Written by admin on December 22nd, 2008
Fear, Money, and Successful Trading
Money is a natural source of fear. We fear losing too much money, we fear not having enough money, and some of us even fear having too much money and not being worthy or responsible enough with it. Very few of us have a really healthy overall attitude about money. Money issues usually stem from [...]
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Trading Emotions, Loss, and Financial Recovery
When we make decisions based on which stocks to purchase, to track, or to evaluate, we do it with the understanding that we accept a risk of potential loss. Yet no matter how often we explain to ourselves that loss is part of the process of becoming a better or more experienced trader we don’t [...]
Continue Reading...Written by admin on December 5th, 2008
8 Handy Suggestions Concerning Stock Market Day Trading!
If you should go back to the olden days, you would realize that trading was never such a complicated and difficult-to-grasp business as it is today! Terminology like stocks and securities, stock market day trading, currency trading and so on, did not even exist in those days!
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