In a day there are thousands of market participants buying and selling securities with wide variety of reasons : hope of gain, fear of loss, tax consequences, short-covering, hedging, stop-loss triggers, price target triggers, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, broker recommendations and a few dozen more. it is a danuting process to figure out why participants are … [Read more...]
Gap analysis
Gaps and Gap Analysis a gap is an area on a price chart indicates that there were no trades. Normally this occurs between the time period when the market closes on one day and open's up the next day. Lot's of things can cause this, such as an earnings report coming out after the stock market has closed for the day. If the earnings were significantly higher than expected, many … [Read more...]