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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 [...]
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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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Inside Market
The highest quoted bid and the lowest quoted offer (ask) price among competing market makers in a security. This is the best bid and offer prices, also known as the market maker spread.
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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 [...]
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High Low Breakout Technique
This technique can be used for any market that has a decent daily range. If you look at any chart, what do you see? You should see a succession of bars that are doing one of three things. 1. Going up 2. Going down 3. Going sideways Unless today’s bar turns out to be an [...]
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Dealing With Market Uncertainty
The nature of the markets is uncertainty. Human beings do not like uncertainty. In fact we fear it at the very depths of our soul. Much of our society has evolved in an effort to reduce the uncertainty we face in day to day life, through controlling the environment, and implementing a structure of laws, [...]
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Education in Forex
Finding the best resources in order to learn forex trading is not as simple and straightforward as many of us would think, but it is still possible to get a good education if you know how to filter the information you’re bombarded with every day. Even if the teacher may not be perfect himself (and [...]
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