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A candlestick chart of the Euro against the USD, marked up by a price action trader. A price action trader's analysis may start with classical price action technical analysis, e.g. Edwards and Magee patterns including trend lines, break-outs and pullbacks, [13] which are broken down further and supplemented with extra bar-by-bar analysis, sometimes including volume.
Cheat sheet in front of a juice box. A cheat sheet (also cheatsheet) or crib sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets were historically used by students without an instructor or teacher's knowledge to cheat on a test or exam. [ 1 ] In the context of higher education or vocational training, where rote memorization ...
A block trade is a high-volume transaction in a security that is privately negotiated and executed outside of the open market for that security. [1] Major broker-dealers often provide "block trading" services—sometimes known as "upstairs trading desks"—to their institutional clients. [2] In the United States and Canada a block trade is ...
Description. The pattern is made up of three candles: normally a long bearish candle, followed by a short bullish or bearish doji or a small body candlestick, [1] which is then followed by a long bullish candle. To have a valid Morning Star formation, most traders look for the top of the third candle to be at least halfway up the body of the ...
The Institutional Brokers' Estimate System (I/B/E/S) is a service founded by the New York brokerage firm Lynch, Jones & Ryan and Technimetrics, Inc. I/B/E/S began collecting earnings estimates for U.S. companies around 1976 and used the raw data to calculate statistical time series for each company. The data subsequently was used as the basis ...
The Officer Personnel Act of 1947 gave the Army its first up-or-out promotion system, eliminating officers after a maximum number of years in each grade. Before 1947, Army officers were promoted by seniority up to the grade of colonel, with a mandatory retirement age of 60 for colonels, 62 for brigadier generals, and 64 for major generals.
Renaissance Technologies LLC, also known as RenTech[4] or RenTec, [5] is an American hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York, [6] on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analysis. Their signature Medallion fund is famed for the best record in investing history.
Several methods exist for calculating the pivot point (P) of a market. Most commonly, it is the arithmetic average of the high (H), low (L), and closing (C) prices of the market in the prior trading period: [3][page needed] P = (H + L + C) / 3. Sometimes, the average also includes the previous period's or the current period's opening price (O):