The past few days are a great example of why, even if one does not believe in technical analysis, it is foolish not to understand it.  We've had almost perfect bounces off the 200 day exponential moving averages both yesterday and this morning.  While this is still a 'day trading' type ...

One of my buds on twitter just mentioned Apple (AAPL) broke below the 200 day moving average for the first time in a few years.  Technically it is half right - the 200 day simple moving average is $325.50, while the 200 day exponential is $320.50ish.  So still above the ...

Apple (AAPL) rebounded (with the rest of the market) late in the day to essentially close right at its 200 day simple moving average.  If something closes +/- 0.25% within a moving average I am not going to penalize it for breaking support, but according to Bespoke Apple closed below ...

In no way, after yesterday's pop, did I expect to be seeing a retest of the 200 day moving average the very next day - but lo and behold low of the day 1263.54.  200 day exponential moving average? 1263.  That technical analysis gobblygook is like witchcraft. ;) We have the ...

There are so many ways to splice and dice how poor the underlying structure of the U.S. employment picture is, but Business Insider highlights this graph as one of the most striking.  The average duration of unemployment is now 40 weeks, which is just about twice the level of any ...

I'm trying to trade forex on my own, with 3 strategies based primarily on technical analysis, supplemented by fundamental analysis. I've developed these strategies through homework, lots of reading and just a bunch of research. I bought a system in the past and got burned. Now I'm ...

my boyfriend is trying out the stock market...and one of his co workers told him that the average tax rate is 30% of the profit made... I tried to google to the answer but kept drawing blanks... thank you to those who will reply with educated answers.

I've often written how dependent the average American has become on transfer payments as nearly 20% of income now comes via this route.      But this graph via NYT Economix shocked me, because it cross references the growth in transfer payments with the shrinkage in wages in terms ...

I know the DJIA and NASDAQ are indexes and averages. But: what do the total numbers stand for?. The DIJA is 8,000, 9000, 12,000 of WHAT? Is it dollars? Is it number of shares? Is it something else? Please help... this has baffled me for years!

Can somebody tell me that what is th eaverage income of stock investors in India.Suppose I have a margin money of 5000,and I am selling/purchasing rs.25000 everyday,then what will be my monthly income from there? Other than this if you have some idea about the average income of stock investors(miniscale),then please ...