There’s something about round numbers that attracts the human mind. If the price of an object is $19.95, people automatically round that up to $20. If a house is for sale with an asking price …

Investors tend to categorise stocks by the trading opportunity provided:

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The most basic method of trading the Ichimoku cloud is with a simple crossover. However, with six different components comprising this technical indicator, stock traders must realize that “simple” is a relative term and more …

The rules for trading a stock’s uptrend are simple:

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Although many stock traders base their trading decisions upon daily charts, there’s no law requiring it. For day traders, trading from a daily chart is downright silly, and durations of two minutes, five minutes, or …

One of the very strongest short-term stock trading signals is divergence, and traders are well advised to watch for it.

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Fundamental analysis is the term for trading stocks based upon factors inherent to their underlying companies. Such factors as corporate earnings expectations, backlog of orders, balance sheet, and cash flow, for fundamental analysts, provide indications …

Investors assess the value of companies and compare their results to the stock price, as a means of determining if that stock is a good investment relative to the industry sector and the market as …

Many traders use online screening services to search for value stocks, either to buy or to short them. During this exercise, the best results are achieved when the filtering criteria aren’t set to flag only …

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 …