Trading the Inside Day Breakout Strategy

An inside day is a day where the range is contained within the preceding day’s range. For a valid inside day breakout set up there should be at least two consecutive inside days. The more inside days in a row, the greater the chance of the volatility breakout trade occuring. Longer term timeframes such as

Hull Moving Average (HMA)

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

Federal Reserve Policy

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

How to Interpret the Data in Stock Tables

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

How the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers Connect

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