One of the primary objectives of any market analyst is to determine what exactly the market is doing. Is it rising or falling, trending or consolidating? And how do you know? For most, that analysis ...

A moving average is a popular technical analysis tool used to reflect trends in the stock market and individual equities. Option traders use moving averages to determine which direction an equity’s ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Welcome to Episode #375 of the Zacks Market Edge Podcast. Every week, host and Zacks stock strategist, Tracey Ryniec, will be joined by guests to discuss the hottest investing topics in stocks, bonds, ...

I use a mechanical strategy to buy or hold SPY if the S&P 500 closes above its 200-day SMA at month-end. This strategy avoids emotional decisions, keeping me long in uptrends and out of the market in ...

I outline a strategy to trade Bitcoin using the 200-day simple moving average (SMA). The strategy is based on the price of BTC-USD on the last day of the month and involves buying when the price is ...