Bearish Belt Hold – Waiting For the Third Day When first starting out with candlestick charts, it’s important to understand a few basic features about the chart itself. The images placed on the chart are called the candlesticks, and they can be black, white, red, or blue. The body of the candlestick is meant to [...]
Bearish Harami
Bearish Harami – Potential for Reversal Before delving into the bearish harami itself, it’s important that you understand that larger family of stock charts that it comes from. Centuries ago, when the Japanese were first entering the world of rice securities, they developed a method for analyzing fluctuations in price that came to be known [...]
Bearish Abandoned Baby
Bearish Abandoned Baby – Candlestick Warning Signals Before you can really understand how to spot the bearish abandoned baby, it’s important that you have a basic understanding of how candlestick charts work in general. Created by early Japanese rice traders this system is based on tracking opening and closing prices for each day. The body [...]
Introduction to Candlesticks
Easy To Interpret Many technical analysis patterns and trends are named after the shapes that they resemble when examined in chart form. Any introduction to candlesticks will tell you that these charts consist of open, low, high and also close values for certain stocks over certain time periods that eventually come to resemble candlesticks. Many [...]
What Is Technical Analysis?
Understanding Stock Charts Have you ever wondered how it is possible for traders and investors to make money on the stock market? So many people consider it a gamble these days that it can be hard to believe that it’s actually possible to buy or sell the right stock at the right time. Most successful [...]
What Is a Stock Chart?
Visualizing Market Activity Have you ever wondered how it is that successful stock market analysts and investors can keep track of all the stocks that they’ve invested in and whether they’re currently moving up or down in value? The answer is that for the most part, traders these days rely on stock charts, or price [...]
Dow Jones
Dow Jones – A look at the Most Quoted Market Indicator The Dow Jones is a stock market index in the US. It is also referred to as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow 30, industrial average, or Dow. Approximately two thirds of the Dow 30 is made up of companies that manufacture industrial [...]