Insider trading is the buying and selling public securities using material, nonpublic information. For such a short answer, it raises a lot of questions. What constitutes material information? Does it matter how you came to access the data? Why is …
Pre-market and after-hours trading occurs before and after regular stock market hours. Pre-market can occur between 4:00 am and 9:30 am, with most trade volume between 8:00 am, and 9:30 am. After-hours trading runs from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. …
You can sell a stock right after you buy it, but there are limitations. In a regular retail brokerage account, you can not execute more than three same-day trades within five business days. Once you cross that threshold, you are …
Is stock trading gambling? Yes and no. Stock trading is gambling in the sense that certainty is not guaranteed. At the same time, assuming you’re investing in a financially savvy way, stock trading is nothing like gambling since, unlike gambling, …
Traders using technical analysis attempt to profit from supply and demand imbalances. Technicians use price and volume patterns to identify these potential imbalances to profit from them. Algorithmic chart pattern detection allows traders to scan more charts while eliminating bias. …
The best college degree for stock trading and investing depends on the specific career desired. It also involves choosing between a financial education that is more comprehensive or more specialized. If you’re in the process of choosing a college degree, …
In stock trading, the high and low refer to the maximum and minimum prices in a given time period. Open and close are the prices at which a stock began and ended trading in the same period. Volume is the …
Keltner Channels are a technical indicator that combines an exponential moving average with volatility-based envelopes set above and below the EMA at a fixed percentage of the same duration. Keltner Channels aims to identify the underlying price trend and over-extended …
A sample is a smaller representative group selected from a population used to answer a statistical question. Samples allow statisticians to answer questions when surveying or analyzing the entire population is impractical. In this post, I will discuss what a …
I’m a quantamental investor and trader. I believe that you can use financial statement information to separate winners from losers. In this post, I will discuss how to create a financial statement database in Python using SQLAlchemy. If you’re new to …
