You’re offered a choice of two tickets to one of two Yankee games, versus the Red Sox or the METS. Both are great opportunities but since your wife’s family is from Boston, you go with the METS (just a little humor). In a similar fashion, when choosing between a bar or candlestick chart, there is no poor selection. [...]
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Bar Charts versus Candlesticks Charts
March 20th, 2010 · 52 Comments
Tags: Bar charts · Candlestick charts · beta
Beta: Another Tool to Enhance our Returns
October 17th, 2009 · 50 Comments
Several months ago, I wrote an article entitled “The Greeks- Factors that Influence our Option Premiums.” This was a discussion of the price sensitivity of the option premium as it relates to the underlying equity, time and other factors. One of the rules was that (all other factors being equal) an increase in share volatility [...]
Tags: alpha · beta · capital asset pricing model (CAPM) · economic news
Support and Resistance- Technical Analysis Mainstays
September 13th, 2009 · 18 Comments
When identifying stocks for our watchlist and portfolios, we look for uptrending price patterns and utilize moving averages to establish these trends. In an ideal situation the price bars (OHLC) bounce off and above the short-term ( 20-day) exponential moving average. When this occurs, the moving average is serving as support for the price of the [...]
Tags: beta · economic news · moving averages · support and resistance


