http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1208497_19.html 30th 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1140262_19.html 01st October 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_975070_19.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_975068_19.html 10th July 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_901859_19.html 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_901858_19.html 19th May 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_851339_19.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_851333_19.html 09th April 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_803224_19.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_803221_19.html 02nd March 2009 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 n... http://www.articlealley.com/article_729152_19.html 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 ins... http://www.articlealley.com/article_729151_19.html 29th December 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 i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_676387_19.html 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 NASDA... http://www.articlealley.com/article_676106_19.html 27th October 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_614251_19.html 02nd September 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_607661_19.html 22nd 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_602034_19.html 17th August 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_560519_19.html 21st 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 comp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_555056_19.html 11th June 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_509976_19.html 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. Ru... http://www.articlealley.com/article_509974_19.html 07th April 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488463_19.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_488460_19.html 10th March 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 th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_470710_19.html 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 sin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_470708_19.html 08th February 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 ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_457822_19.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_457820_19.html 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... http://www.articlealley.com/article_457819_19.html 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 selle... http://www.articlealley.com/article_457818_19.html 22nd January 2008 The Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) is a basket of 100 of the largest companies listed and traded on the Nasdaq National Market (which is part of the Nasdaq Stock Market). The QQQQ is ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) that tracks the NASDAQ 100 Index. The NASDAQ Stock... http://www.articlealley.com/article_245360_19.html 14th November 2007 In some cases a trader who may have access to an uncovered options trading system, may not be willing to trade uncovered options, or is simply unable to do so because of margin requirements set by an op... http://www.articlealley.com/article_220772_19.html 28th September 2007 The covered calls options trading strategy provides traders the ability to generate additional income from investments in a neutral market. An options trader who wishes to benefit from a fairly neutral ma... http://www.articlealley.com/article_220068_19.html 27th September 2007 A stock exchange is a place where company stocks and other securities are traded. Nowadays trading is less and less linked to take place in such a physical space. Modern markets are electronic networks that deliver advantages of speed and low cost on tran... http://www.articlealley.com/article_216426_19.html 21st September 2007 It is very important to understand how to invest in options before starting to trade them. Many options traders loose a big portion of their portfolio when they start to trade options simply because of the wrong “selected money management strategy”. M... http://www.articlealley.com/article_177753_19.html 26th June 2007 Selling options short is one of the options trading strategies commonly used by institutional investors. It is known as uncovered options trading and as naked options trading. In a majority of situation... http://www.articlealley.com/article_169357_19.html 04th June 2007 When volume analysis is applied to intraday timeframes, it can be a challenge. What allows you to incorporate a simple mechanical system into the volume analysis process is the SBV (Selling & Buying Volume) Oscillator. This system will trigger a sell sign... http://www.articlealley.com/article_169344_19.html 04th June 2007 By searching “Options Trading System” as an exact phrase in Google you will receive over 40,000 results. Because of the leverage that the options market provides, this market has became one of the most popular among speculative investors. So, it’... http://www.articlealley.com/article_168349_19.html 01st June 2007