Have you ever heard someone say "The VIX futures are in contango"? Or, maybe you have heard someone say "The VIXfutures are in backwardation". Today we will be discussing a little bit about contango …
Technical Indicators 101: Bollinger Bands in a Nutshell
Bollinger Bands are a technical indicator created by renowned technical trader John Bollinger in the early 1980's. There are numerous publications, as well as John's website www.bollingerbands.com, …
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Technical Indicators 101: Simple vs Exponential Moving Averages
The origin of moving averages can be traced back to 18th Century Japan, and are now used by the majority of traders in some form or another. Those who have studied the early use of moving averages …
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Option Volume and Open Interest
The decisions of millions of investors and traders affect the price movements in the options market. There are many useful statistics in addition to price movement that indicate what other market …
Effective Goal Setting
With the New Year upon us, this is the time of year that many of us take a bit of time to reflect on the past year's accomplishments, and renew our goals for the current trading year in order to …