NTAP is back on traders' screens this week, in the days after its latest quarterly report, so it's worth pulling an old chart back up and reading it properly. The…
Pull a single day of time and sales for any active stock and you'll get a tidy column of prints: a price, a size, a timestamp, sometimes a venue code.…
A single market order can strip the visible book in a blink. Picture the best offer showing 4,000 shares, and then a buyer lifts 12,000 in one print. The top…
The last number printed on a chart at the close is the one everybody quotes. It sets the daily candle, the mark on your brokerage statement, the figure a fund…
Watch a fast tape for a few minutes and the rhythm gives itself away. Trades, quote changes, and cancellations don't arrive like a metronome. The book goes quiet, then a…
A headline crosses the wire: a stock "jumped 4% after earnings." It reads like a clean reaction, cause and effect in one line. Then you pull up the tape and…
A stock closes up 10 percent on Monday and down 10 percent on Tuesday. Add the two moves and you get zero, so the week looks like a wash. The…
By mid-February 2020, Zoom Video Communications had spent almost a year grinding sideways after its IPO pop, and then it stopped grinding. On 18 February 2020 the stock closed at…
Picture a moving-average crossover you're testing. You try fast lengths from 5 to 50, slow lengths from 20 to 200, three different exit rules, and four separate stock universes. Somewhere…
EHang, ticker EH, is back on traders' screens this week. The Chinese eVTOL maker posted its second-quarter 2026 results on 25 August, per the company's own release, and the stock…