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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…

Key Takeaways Separate signal from noise and focus on fundamentals and valuations. Even after outperforming, we continue to recommend value stocks over growth. Small-cap stocks have failed to deliver but…

set of equities that have several characteristics, typically due to their comparable businesses, is referred to as a stock market sector. The most widely used classification system, the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), divides the stock market into 11 distinct sectors. To facilitate the comparison of businesses with comparable business models, we group stocks into sectors.Comparing the most profitable stocks is  also made simpler by sectors. Investing in stock sectors At a glance, the 11 GICS stock market sectors are: Energy Materials Industrials Utilities Healthcare Financials Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Information Technology…

To provide investors a sense of how the company is doing, financial statements must be released on a quarterly basis by all publicly traded corporations. The income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement are the three primary financial statements that investors need to be aware of. We'll examine each one in this post along with the important details that investors need to be aware of. What are company financial statements? The purpose of financial statements is to provide investors with a quick overview of a company's performance over a specific time frame. Before purchasing a stock, investors should consider the following crucial questions, which financial statements address: Financial statements answer these questions: How does the business make its money? Have the business's revenue and earnings grown or…