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 …

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 …

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 …

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ASX week ahead 25 January 2010: A dramatic trading week, with the S&P/ASX 200 correcting down by 3.0%. With Treasurer Swan discussing a resources tax of up to 40%, the collapse was led by miners …

Earnings season has commenced and will resume guiding equities markets, although risk aversion is re-entering global financial markets and even Rio Tinto’s (RIO) outstanding Q42009 production update could not quell it. Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and …

Oil Search Limited (OSH) explores for crude oil and natural gas, then develops and produces its findings. Although their main operations are in Papua New Guinea (PNG), they also operate in the Middle East and …

S&P/ASX 200 Index gained in the week, rising to a 15-month high as investors and traders emerged from holidays and looked for trades. Such a positive start to the New Year often foretells a good …

Newcrest Mining is an integrated mining company, exploring, producing, and selling gold and gold/copper concentrate. The company’s operations include seven mines, five of which are located in Australia, and one each in Papua New Guinea …