Jack Be Nimble
(Candlesticks)
(Candlesticks)
This is a type of price chart used in technical analysis that displays the high, low, open, and closing prices of a security for a specific period.
What is a candlestick.
A phrase when a stock or index trades within a range.
What is consolidation?
This is a specific chart formation that predicts a bullish-to-bearish trend reversal.
What is the head and shoulders pattern?
This is the smallest price move that an exchange rate can make based on market convention.
What is a PIP (percentage in point)
The option to buy less than one whole share.
What are fractional shares?
This informs traders that the market is about to enter an uptrend after a previous decrease in prices.
Wha is a bullish candle pattern
A global marketplace for exchanging national currencies.
What is the foreign exchange?
A technical analysis approach that can help investors decide what stocks to buy and when to buy them.
What is the Wyckoff method?
This program automatically uses the proceeds generated from dividend stocks to purchase more shares of the company.
What is a DRIP (Dividend Reinvestment Plan)
A collective investment that tracks a specific index, sector, commodity or other asset in order to replicate its performance.
What is an Exchange-traded fund (ETF)?
A technical chart pattern that signals lower prices to come.
What is a bearish engulfing pattern?
A type of derivative contract agreement to buy or sell a specific commodity asset or security at a set future date for a set price.
What are futures?
These are distinctive formations created by movements of security prices on a chart.
What are trading patterns?
An abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market.
What is a ticker symbol?
An order to buy or sell shares automatically at a specified price or better.
What is a limit order?
This candlestick pattern occurs during an uptrend and warns that prices may start falling.
What is a hanging man candlestic?
A financial instrument that is based on the value of underlying securities such as stocks.
What is an option?
A method of analysis of basic price movements to generate trade entry and exit signals that is considered reliable while not requiring the use of indicators.
What is price action?
This acts like a scorecard for an active trader whose primary motive is to maximize trading gain.
What is P/L (profit/loss) ratio?
A high-risk form of trading where investors borrow money from their broke to invest.
What is margin trading?
This is a type of candlestick pattern found after a downtrend and is usually taken to be a trend-reversal signal.
What is an inverted hammer?
An order placed to buy or sell a specific stock once the stock reaches a certain price.
What is a stop-loss order?
A technical term used to identify a minor pullback or change in the direction of a financial instrument, such as a stock or inde.
What is retracement?
The profit after tax of a company divided by the number of shares.
What is EPS (Earnings per share)?
A downturn in economic activity, often defined as two or more consecutive quarters of decline in gross do product.
What is a recession?