Sometimes a stock’s price bar is much longer than the norm, signifying a period of intensive trading within a wider trading range than usual. On such bars, the high or low is generally quite distant …

To evaluate their performance accurately, it’s necessary for stock traders to calculate their rate of return. This is simple when there have been no external changes to the account, such as deposits or withdrawals, and …

Stock traders, just like long-term, buy-and-hold investors, must balance their risk through diversification. This includes:
•    trading stocks in different industry sectors
•    trading stocks in companies of various sizes or “market caps”
•    at least considering trading …

Candlestick reversal patterns are common on stock charts and deserve special attention. The four most common are the hammer, hanging man, inverted hammer, and shooting star.
All of these have small candle bodies. One side has …