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How to read stock charts: A step-by-step guide on a real chart
To read a stock chart, start with the time frame, then look at each bar’s open, high, low and close, then at the trend, the support and resistance…
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Inside bar: What a breakout test on the S&P 500 shows
An inside bar is a bar whose high is lower and whose low is higher than the bar before it, so the whole day fits inside the previous one. Traders…
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Bollinger Bands: What 56 years of S&P 500, gold and Bitcoin data show
Bollinger Bands are a 20-day moving average with a band two standard deviations above and below it. I tested John Bollinger’s own rules on the S&P…
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Bitcoin death cross: What all 10 since 2015 did next
Bitcoin has had 10 death crosses since 2015, the days its 50-day moving average fell below the 200-day. A year later the price was higher after 5 of…
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Risk reward ratio: Why it means nothing without the win rate
The risk reward ratio compares what a trade can lose, from the entry to the stop, with what it can make, from the entry to the target. Risk $1 to…
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Fair value gap (FVG): A test on 26 years of S&P 500 data
A fair value gap (FVG) is a three-candle pattern: the first candle’s high and the third candle’s low don’t overlap, and the empty space between them…