Yearly Archives: 2025

Why Analyze Securities? This thorough book will help you understand the stock market and why it is crucial for any investor to analyze equities. Investigate the various analysis methods and choose wisely while making investments. Security Analysis: Does it Matter? The goal of the many analysts, strategists, and portfolio managers employed by Wall Street is to outperform the market. The purpose of hiring analysts is to identify cheap stocks. To forecast the path of the market and other industries, strategists are employed. To put everything together and beat their benchmark, which is often the S&P 500 index, portfolio managers are employed. It's safe to conclude that roughly 75% of equity mutual funds underperform the S&P 500, despite the fact that there are several research and disagreements over this topic. Given these statistics, isn't it better for individual investors to just buy index funds instead of trying to outperform the market? Market analysis can be done in a variety of methods. Analysis's additional value depends on the individual: A fundamental analyst believes that analyzing strategy, management, product, financial statistics, and…

Explore the Double Top Reversal chart pattern and learn to identify, interpret, and trade this common bearish reversal pattern. A common bearish reversal pattern on bar, line, and candlestick charts is the Double Top Reversal.As the name suggests, the pattern consists of two  about equal peaks that are followed by a mild dip. The traditional Double Top Reversal pattern indicates at least an intermediate-term shift from bullish to bearish, though there may be variances. An illustration of a Double Top Reversal can be seen in the chart below. Example of a classic Double Top Reversal…

Broadening Top or Megaphone Top What Is a Broadening Top? A chart pattern with a series of higher peaks and lower dips is known as a spreading top. The pattern would seem like a megaphone or a reverse triangle if you were to draw a trendline across the top and bottom of the price movement. What Does the Broadening Top Indicate? Whether it's a broadening top or a broadening bottom, the most trustworthy sign that any broadening formation is telling us is that bullish and bearish investors are at odds with one another. While negative investors sell (or sell short) the stock, causing it to decline, bullish investors are bidding it higher. You consequently witness a string of successive lower lows (LLs) and higher highs (HHs). Are Broadening Tops Bearish or Bullish? While many long-term…

Investing.com-- Asian stocks rebounded on Tuesday tracking overnight gains on Wall Street but investors were cautious ahead of the April 2 U.S. reciprocal tariffs, while the Reserve Bank of Australia kept…

Why Are Chart Patterns Important? The forces of supply and demand drive prices in the financial market. Who is winning—the sellers or the buyers? In order to determine whether a market is heading upward, downward, or sideways, chart patterns offer a visual depiction of the conflict between buyers and sellers. You can make better buying and selling judgments if you are aware of this. Numerous chart designs are available. The majority fall into one of two general categories: continuation patterns or reversal patterns. While continuation patterns suggest the price trend will continue following a brief consolidation, reversal patterns indicate a change in the trend. In the StockCharts platform, you can scan for various chart patterns in the Predefined Scans available in the…

Scale Settings for Trend Lines When prices are presented on a semi-log scale, it appears that the alignment of the high and low points on trend lines is improved. This…

Introduction to Market Indicators Market Indicators are used to measure the health of a group of related stocks, usually by measuring group participation in a trend. The group can be…

Over half of American workers claim they lack the information necessary to choose and manage investments for their retirement plan, despite the fact that news about the stock market and investing is available every day.¹ If you put your investment knowledge in that category, we’ve got a series of helpful videos and articles for you. We can help you learn the fundamentals, starting with how the stock market operates, even if investing and the stock market may utilize terms you're not familiar with. If you want to learn Beginner’s Guide to…

Using Market Mood Index to predict Nifty returns in the 3 months following the Extreme Fear zone. The purpose of MMI is to assist investors in better timing their investments and trades. It is a sentiment indicator that gauges the state of the market right now. The indicator uses a scale of 0 to 100 to indicate the mood of the market. Focusing on zones—buying in high extreme fear (values below 20) and selling in high extreme greed (values above 80)—rather than worrying about the precise value of the MMI is the approach. All of the information regarding MMI and the various feeling zones is available here. This post's goal is to evaluate MMI's ability to forecast market returns in the three months that follow the extreme fear zone. Test Identify the dates when MMI entered extreme…