Basics of Volume Indicators Let's begin this discussion with a basic definition of Volume, specifically stock volume — option volume is another interesting indicator and topic for another time. Simply put, volume is the number of trades made on a stock in a specific period of time. To complicate matters just a bit, the NYSE and the Nasdaq historically measure...
Gold Trend Forecast for 1st Quarter of 2012 Over the past five months gold (GLD) has fallen sharply and is no longer headline news; which it once dominated back in 2011 when it was making new highs every day. The shiny metal has been under pressure because traders and investors started to pull some money off the table to lock in...
Mind the Leveraged Short ETF… It might KILL your wallet… In this article I will show you why it's wise to be careful with leveraged products, such as ProShares Ultra ETF's and Direxion 3x ETF etc… as they might damage your portfolio! Leverage ProShares states on its website: Each Short or Ultra ProShares ETF seeks a return that is either 3x,...
Active investments – Know how it can help you to gain profits Active investments are the strategies that are opposite to those opted by passive investing. In this kind of investment strategy, an endeavor is made to out-perform the market by choosing securities and trading in them or through allocation of assets. If you want to become an active investor,...
Treasury Departments Owe Their Livelihoods to Forex Options for Hedging Courtesy of Tom Cleveland, currency analyst for Forex Traders Foreign currency traders often forget that their chosen medium is actually there to facilitate cross-border commerce, not to provide a speculative playground for day, swing, and position forex traders. The "numbers", however, seem to tell a different story. According to the...
How to Trade Oil and Gold Prices This Coming Week Courtesy of Chris Vermeulen, www.GoldAndOilGuy.com The past couple weeks have been tough for most investors. The recent light volume rallies which have taken place in gold, oil and stocks has been generating mixed signals for technical analysts like myself. In order avoid a large draw down on your trading capital...
Crude Oil Analysis & How To Trade Oil Report Courtesy of Chris Vermeulen, www.GoldAndOilGuy.com Trading Crude Oil is not an easy thing to do in today's headline driven market. Even the best oil analysis which may have been often correct will still be wrong at times. This is due to the fact that oil has many factors which play into its price. ...
Most Charts Are Ambiguous In response to many of your questions you've been e-mailing in and sending in webinars, we'd like to address a topic that seems to be a hot button with a great number of you. You'd like to know about the trade selection process. More than ever, a totally systematized trading plan is necessary. With the ease...
The Dollar, Gold and S&P 500 Trend Analysis Courtesy of Chris Vermeulen, http://www.thegoldandoilguy.com/free-preview.php The dollar is and has been in a strong downtrend for many years and I feel as though it's getting close to another major land slide. It could take place any time in the next month or so according to my weekly chart analysis. The general rule...
Learning How to Trade the Fibonacci Butterfly Pattern Courtesy of JW Jones, www.OptionsTradingSignals.com/specials/index.php One of the many useful characteristics of options is that the astute trader can design strategies to capture profit from predicted price action forecasts from a wide variety of technical indicators. I think it is helpful to have knowledge of several approaches to technical analysis in order...
