Investors and traders use technical indicators in an attempt to obtain more information than just observing price. The speed, momentum, and volume of movement can provide additional clues to what the future may hold. One of the most commonly used…
The opening gap is one of the most widely traded and also misunderstood trades available on a regular basis. To trade a gap, it is imperative first to know what a gap is. An opening gap is when price action…
John Walsh, otherwise known as The Black Cabbie Trader is our guest this week. John’s backstory in trading started in 2012 when he entered the City Index Trading Academy competition in which a group of people with little to…
As a trader starting on a new journey, it’s crucial to know the “must-haves” of the trading world. You are likely to run into myriads of programs, sales pitches, and offers. From a pure nuts and bolts standpoint, these are…
What does the gold/silver ratio tell us, and is it as powerful an indicator as it seems? Gold versus Silver… Gold has been one of the best-performing assets in 2016. The metal mania at the beginning of the decade had…
Diversification can play a key role not only in a stock portfolio but in fixed income portfolios as well. The whole idea is to avoid putting all your eggs in one basket. While an equity investor may buy various stocks…
Charlie Bathgate is a partner and the CEO of two companies; Flammarion and Sang Lucci. Flammarion is a hedge fund consisting primarily of automated traders and Sang Lucci is a trader education service. Charlie’s father was an options market maker,…
A trader who owns 10 calls controls 1,000 shares of stock. If exercised, those 10 calls turn into long 1,000 shares at the strike price. From this point, the trader will make or lose $1,000 for each $1 change in…
The stock market comeback in the last six months has added $2 trillion dollars in value to the U.S. markets. It’s certainly a big number. In fact, it can push the total capitalization here to almost $20 trillion. Here’s some simple math…
Gaps can be maddening. What can you do when a market opens up significantly higher or lower than where it closed? This riddle haunts traders, but there is a solution that could help you succeed. The interconnectedness of global…
