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Bar Charts versus Candlesticks Charts

March 20th, 2010 · 52 Comments

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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: beta · economic news · moving averages · support and resistance