30th October 2009
MACD (Moving Average Convergence / Divergence) is one of the most popular studies in the technical analysis. Created by Gerald Appel in the 1960s this indicator reveals the shorter-term trend changes in relegation to the longer-term trend. The MACD formul...
01st October 2009
Stop-loss trading strategy is one of the most popular topics among traders. There is no doubt about importance of this question. A trader may have ten winning trades in a row, still, one loss could wipe out whole earned profit if there were no strategy pl...
10th July 2009
In the period of the first few sentries in the Canada the main investments were coming from the London capital market. Only in the middle of nineteenth century the Canadian Government, railway, banks and mining stocks and bonds began to emerge.In 1852 the...
10th July 2009
Indicators in technical analysis could be divided into three categories: leading technical indicators, lagging technical indicators and informational technical indicators. These categories cover each known technical indicator depending on it particular ro...
19th May 2009
ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) have been launched in 1993 with introduction of SPDRs that tracks the S&P 500 index. SPDRs remains by now as one of the most traded stock on the stock market. ETFs should be considered as funds that could be traded as stocks a...
19th May 2009
An ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) is an investment vehicle designed to have characteristics of the mutual funds and flexibility of trading as stocks. ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) are traded on stock exchanges in the same way the stocks are traded. They could ...
09th April 2009
Moving average is one of the basic and most popular indicators in technical analysis. From the name of this indicator you may already understand that this indicator shows the average price of a security (stock, option, bond, etc) over specified period of ...
09th April 2009
Nasdaq Canada is a subsidiary of the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. Putting into simple words, this is the Nasdaq Stock Exchange extended within Canada. Through the Nasdaq Canada Canadian investors have immediate trading access to all Nasdaq listed stocks which...
02nd March 2009
Not a lot of traders are asking themselves about fundamental analysis by mainly relaying on technical analysis. The logical question could be placed about how far a trader may rely on technical analysis without consulting fundamental approaches. Before an...
02nd March 2009
By selecting an online trading system the most common question is how much to invest in this system. This question is very simple, yet, many traders could be confused and do not know how to calculate minimum invested amount for a particular trading system...
29th December 2008
Technical analysis has been developed into the complicated science that is in the constant research and development. Started more than hundred years ago with introduction of DOW indexes now technical analysis covers indexes that track different markets, t...
29th December 2008
Stochastics is one of the most used technical indicators in the analysis of the security trends. Developed more than a half of century ago this indicator shows how far away is the current security price is from the most recent low and high.For instance, S...
27th October 2008
In general all technical studies could be divided into four categories: a) price based; b) volume based; c) breadth indicators; d) combined studies.Price BasedPrice based studies are the most popular due to simplicity of implementation in technical analys...
27th October 2008
Over the last couple of years the NASDAQ Exchange has lunched a big number of different indices that cover not just NASDAQ market and US economy, but characterize the different markets all over the globe.The same as before the NASDAQ 100 and NASDAQ Compos...
02nd September 2008
New Highs and New Lows indicators show the number of stocks hitting new 52-week highs or lows respectively. As a rule these indicators are applied to the basket of stocks: indexes and exchanges. The most common application of this technical study is apply...
