You watched value lead for a quarter, then quality took over, then low-volatility ran for six weeks while everyone on your timeline argued about which single names to buy. The…
The sortino ratio is a risk-adjusted return measure calculated as a strategy's excess return over a minimum acceptable return, divided by its downside deviation. The formula in one line is…
A stock gaps up four percent at the open. Volume runs ten times normal for the first thirty minutes. Price stalls near the 478 figure and the trader has to…
A trader looks at a chart that has just topped, pulled back, then bounced from a higher low. The question that matters is whether the bounce is a small correction…
The October 2022 print stuck with me. CPI ran 7.7%, the Fed had taken funds from 0 to 3.75% in seven months, the 2s10s spread sat at minus 50 basis…
Two stocks rallied 30% last quarter. One sits in the top decile of its sector by relative strength. The other delivered the same return while half its sector did better.…
A trend you spotted on Monday closes red on Wednesday. The next day it closes red again. By Friday you have exited a position that, two weeks later, is still…
A stock prints flat for three weeks. Closes hug the 20-day moving average. Daily volume bars look ordinary. Nothing on the chart screams. Then one Tuesday it gaps 6% on…
A stock prints a new 52-week high. The RSI reading on the daily chart closes at 71 against its previous high of 78. The textbook answer is loud and confident:…