Is there a pattern to your trades? Anyone trading options knows how little effort it takes to build up a healthy volume of transactions. But you should be aware of one rule that could inhibit your ...

One of the challenging aspects to active trading is the “information overload” that many traders face, by using overly complicated technical indicators. In this series of articles we’ll focus on how ...

As you begin to get familiar with technical analysis, you’ll start to see three distinct types of forex chart patterns emerge. While you might be looking for wedges, flags, channels and triangles, the ...

Goverdhan Gajjala is a pattern day trader who takes quick positions on breakouts. He mainly trades small-cap stocks with low floats and high violability. One pattern he plays is what he calls a ...

Laurie Sepulveda is a MarketWatch Guides team senior writer who specializes in writing about insurance, investing, personal loans, home equity loans, mortgages and banking. She lives in North Carolina ...

Stock charts are graphs that display the stock price and volume history of a company's stock. Advanced charts can include price trend lines, chart patterns, and indicators which investors may attempt ...

Shares of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) came back a little on Wednesday, but they are still in a downtrend. We have made NRG our Stock of the Day. On the chart, a classic double-top pattern has formed, ...

Swing trading offers a middle-ground approach between the hyperactivity of day trading and the extreme patience of long-term investing. In the diverse world of financial markets, trading approaches ...

A doji is a trading session where a security’s open and close prices are virtually equal. It can be used by investors to identify market indecision.

Day trading has become a popular method for investing in the financial markets. Intraday trading differs from the typical form of stock investing where an investor holds a security for an extended ...

With the rise of online platforms, day trading – the practice of buying and selling assets within a single day – has surged in popularity. But is day trading profitable – or a bright shiny object that ...