Fundamental Analysis
FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Business Decisions, Business Performance, Company Stock, Competitive Advantages, Credit Risk, Currency, Earnings, Economy, Financial Forecasts, Financial Statements, Fundamental Analysis, Futures Contract, Interest Rates, Internal Business, Investment Analysis, Price Evolution, Quantitative Analysis, Stock Futures, Stock Valuation
Fundamental analysis of a business involves analyzing its financial statements and health, its management and competitive advantages, and its competitors and markets. When applied to futures and forex,... Read more
Empirical Evidence
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Balsara, Bollinger Band Trading, Chinese Marketplace, Chinese Stock Market, Contradictory Predictions, Empirical Evidence, Foreign Exchange Rates, Fundamental Analysts, Nonlinear Prediction, Peter Lynch, Prediction Results, Prediction Using Neural Networks, Predictive Power, Random Walk, Resistance Levels, Technical Analysts, Trading Strategies, Transaction Costs, Using Neural Networks, Warren Buffett
Whether technical analysis actually works is a matter of controversy. Methods vary greatly, and different technical analysts can sometimes make contradictory predictions from the same data. Many investors... Read more
Charting Terms and Indicators
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Accumulation Distribution, Advance Decline Line, Average Directional Index, Average True Range, Bollinger Bands, Bull Markets, Candlestick Chart, Coppock Indicator, Dead Cat, Distribution Index, Downward Movement, Elliott Wave Principle, Figure Charts, Golden Ratio, Market Breadth, Pivot Point, Price Volatility, Red Candles, Trend Line, Trend Lines
Types of Charts OHLC - Open High Low Close charts plot the high and low of the price movement vertically and the open and close horizontally. Used to graph range and outliers. Candlestick chart - Similar... Read more
Systematic Trading
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Academic Research, Adaptive Software Systems, Adaptive Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Biological Neural Networks, Entry Exit, Exit Signals, Expert Systems, Fundamental Analysis, Fundamental Inputs, Human Interpretation, Linear Statistical Models, Mathematical Nature, Mathematical Terms, Neural Network Software, Prediction Capabilities, Research Circles, Scale Application, Universal Function
Neural networks Since the early 1990s when the first practically usable types emerged, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have rapidly grown in popularity. They are artificial intelligence adaptive software... Read more
Technical Analysis History & Principles
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Candlestick, Charles Dow, Co Founder, Cutler, Delbert, Dow Jones, Dow Jones Co, Dow Theory, Financial Markets, Fundamental Analysis, Gann, Homma, Hundreds Of Years, Internals, Market Move, Ralph Nelson Elliott, Stock Prices, Supporting Research, Technical Analysts, Technical Tools
History The principles of technical analysis derive from the observation of financial markets over hundreds of years. The oldest known example of technical analysis was a method developed by Homma Munehisa... Read more
Technical Analysts
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Archetypal Patterns, Array, Candlestick Charting, Dow Theory, Elliott Wave Theory, Head And Shoulders, Influence Prices, Interest Examples, Mathematical Transformations, Options Implied Volatility, Price Charts, Price Patterns, Prices In Financial Markets, Proper Risk, Relative Strength Index, Reversal Patterns, Risk Control, Sentiment Indicators, Support Resistance, Technical Analysts, Top Reversal
Technical analysts seek to identify price patterns and trends in financial markets and attempt to exploit those patterns. While technicians use various methods and tools, the study of price charts is primary. Technicians... Read more
Technical analysis
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS · Tags: Active Day, Actual Facts, Chart Patterns, Commodity, Correlations, Day Traders, Efficient Market Hypothesis, Financial Institution, Financial Professionals, Foreign Exchange Markets, Fundamental Analysis, Market Currency, Moving Averages, Pit Traders, Purest Form, Relative Strength Index, Security Analysis, Technical Analysts, Traders Market, Trading Group
Technical analysis is a security analysis discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. In its purest form, technical analysis... Read more
Wall Street ends flat; crude drops nearly 6%
MARKET UPDATES · Tags: Beige Book, Commodities, Crude Inventories, Losses, Refinery, Regional Economies, Signs, Wall Street
The US markets ended flat yesterday in a rangebound trade despite a late attempt to revert losses after the Fed\’s beige book showed signs of improvement in regional economies. In commodities, crude... Read more
Central Bank of India Q1 net up 4-fold at Rs 267 cr
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Central Bank of India on Monday reported over 4-fold growth in net profit at Rs 266.80 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2009. Total income rose by 24.24 per cent to Rs 3,196.06 crore during the... Read more
Tata Steel makes smart gains
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Tata Steel touched an intraday high of Rs 404.80 and an intraday low of Rs 377. At 2:24 pm, the share was quoting at Rs 403, up Rs 11.90, or 3.04%. It was trading with volumes of 5,541,289 shares. Yesterday... Read more