NTLA is back near the top of the trending lists this week, and every time a ticker like this reappears it is worth pulling the chart that made it interesting…
Pull up two market data feeds on the same stock at the same second and you'll often see them disagree. One shows 1,200 shares offered at 48.75. The other shows…
DSGX is back among the day's big gainers this week, helped by a higher analyst price target, so it's worth pulling up a much older chart. Back in late 1999,…
Two traders run what they call the same momentum screen on Monday morning. Both rank US equities by six-month price change, both take the top twenty, and both trust the…
An index future ticks higher on a burst of buying. A beat later, the best offer on one of its larger constituents lifts by a couple of cents, and the…
A company reports earnings after the close, the print lands a little ahead of estimates, and by the time the stock reopens it's trading four percent higher. Stare at that…
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…