Technical analysis in plain English — what charts actually show you and why it matters.
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The market doesn't announce when it changes direction. But if you know where to look, it tells you anyway. The stock market gets covered like a single thing. Up or down. Risk or no risk. But it isn't one thing. It's eleven sectors — Healthcare,
There's a version of financial analysis that would look at Amazon right now and panic. In the last twelve months, Amazon spent $131 billion in capital expenditures. Their free cash flow — the money left over after the business pays its bills and maintains itself — was $7.7 billion.
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How to tell the difference between a real bounce and a short squeeze — before it costs you. You're watching a stock — or an index, or a futures contract — that's been falling for weeks. Then one day it just rips. Up 10%, 12%, sometimes more, in the
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The short version The 200-day moving average is simply the average closing price of a stock or index over the past 200 trading days. It's one line on a chart — but it's the single most-watched line in professional investing. When price is above it,