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...
22nd August 2008
VO (Volume Oscillator) is a basic volume based indicator in technical analysis. Such indicators as MVO (MarketVolume Oscillator) and PVO (Percentage Volume Oscillator) are based on the VO and it is essential to understand the physics behind the Volume Osc...
17th August 2008
The VAO (Volume Accumulation Oscillator) was developed by Mark Chaikin and in some cases this technical indicator is called the Chaikin Oscillator. In technical analysis the VAO oscillator is used to show the cumulative volume that is adjusted by the aver...
21st June 2008
Dow Jones was founded by Charles Henry Dow, Edward Davis Jones and Charles Milford Bergstresser on Wall Street in New York. At that time the company was called Dow, Jones & Company and the company produced and delivered daily news bulletins called to subs...
11th June 2008
Nasdaq100 index is one of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq 100 stock exchange. This index is value-weighted. Nasdaq100 does not contain financial companies. This index is therefore different from the S&P500 and the Dow Jones Indust...
07th April 2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is tracked at the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DJI (NYSE: DJI) and is maintained and reviewed by editors of The Wall Street Journal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index is also called the DJIA or infor...
07th April 2008
Russell indexes have been developed by the Frank Russell Company and the New York Futures Exchange (NYFE), to measure U.S. market segments and were introduced to the market in1984. Russell 3000 index is the main U.S. index from the Russell series. This in...
10th March 2008
Over the last couple of years the Rydex funds have become very popular among investors. The main advantage of these funds is that they allow investors to use IRA and 401k accounts to invest in bear market by using the inverse funds as well as the leverage...
10th March 2008
The S&P 500 index is one of the most tracked indexes in the world and it consists of 500 Large-Cap publicly traded corporations. Majority of these companies are American largest public companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Exch...
08th February 2008
Call options (or "calls") give you the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell underlying assets (security, stock) at a specific price (strike price) for a fixed period of time (before an expiration date).Traders may buy call options when they belie...
08th February 2008
The VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) measures the market expectations of near-term volatility based on the S&P 500 stock index option prices. The VIX has been introduced in 1993, and since then it has been considered a world's premier barometer of investor sen...
22nd January 2008
Many traders are looking for a simple trading system. Simple trading system in the meaning that it is simple to use in order to make a trading decision, but it does not imply that this system would not require investing a lot of time into learning and dev...
22nd January 2008
Many traders are confused when the question comes to the indexes. The common question is "Why should I analyze NASDAQ 100 if I trade only MSFT (Microsoft Corporation stocks)?" or "Why should I bother about DJI if I trade C stock (Citigroup Inc)?” The an...
22nd January 2008
The search for the "Best Trading Strategy" has become the most challenging question. Many investors are looking for some unreal strategy of the investing that would deliver huge profits, without any trading risk and worries and without dedicating a lot of...
22nd January 2008
The options trading began in 19th century, almost at the same time when stock started to trade. However, newspapers advertising should be used at that time in order for options buyers to find options sellers. Options trading was not popular at that time. ...
