By Alan Hull The Hull Moving Average solves the age old dilemma of making a moving average more responsive to current price activity whilst maintaining curve smoothness. In fact the HMA almost eliminates lag altogether and manages to improve smoothing at the same time. To understand how it achieves both of these opposing outcomes simultaneously
The Federal Reserve is the U.S. central bank, and it regulates the nation’s financial institutions and implements economic and monetary policies that aim to keep the economy operating at it’s best. The Fed controls the US economy through it’s regulation of interest rates. It’s policies influence commodity prices, the value of the US dollar in
The stock tables in major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal or online finance portals such as Yahoo Finance contain a wealth of information for the astute stock market investor. The following is an explanation of the various columns in a stock table that describe a particular company: 52 Week High: The highest price
Leonardo Fibonacci discovered the Fibonacci Sequence – a series of numbers where adding the two previous numbers in the sequence provides the next number. The sequence begins with 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…. The Golden Ratio, or Phi, is a number – approximately 1.618. The ratios of Fibonacci numbers converge
A hedge fund is private investment fund or pool that trades and invests in various assets such as securities, commodities, currency, and derivatives on behalf of its clients, typically high net worth individuals and institutions. In order to invest in a hedge fund you need to meet requirements set by the Securities and Exchange Commission.