Alan Farley

Tesla Inc. (TSLA) has grown rapidly into one of the world’s largest all-electric vehicle companies through the sale of cars and pickup trucks in the U.S., China, and other countries throughout the world. It’s even become the most valuable automaker […]

Starbucks (SBUX) has grown from a Seattle coffee shop into the world’s dominant coffee chain over five decades by roasting, marketing, and selling specialty coffees and an ever-expanding assortment of other beverages, food, and branded products. These products are sold

Intraday equity volume can be tough to read because market participation is skewed toward the beginning and end of the trading day, with volume shrinking through the lunch hour and picking up in the late afternoon. What looks like a high

A stop-loss is a function that automatically executes a trade whenever the price reaches a certain level. Usually traders use stop-losses to take profits whenever the value of an investment starts to dip. But there’s another way to use these

You should have two important skills if you want to become a successful trader. First is the ability to pick the right markets. The second is the ability to think on your feet when the market turns against you and knowing

Millions of traders test their skills in the financial markets each year, but most are destined to lose their stakes and walk away with their tails between their legs.  A select few defy the odds, churning out profit after profit

The financial markets can be enormously complex but most trading strategies fall into just one of two categories: trend trading or swing trading. Both rely on charting the price directions over time of individual stocks: Trend traders track the price

Semiconductor companies offer a lot of highly liquid securities that encourage risk-taking in all time frames, from intraday scalping to monthly market timing. The sector also supports various profit strategies, including momentum trading, basket allocations and short selling. It acts independently in

It’s a long-held belief that market timing and investing are mutually exclusive, but the two strategies work well together in producing solid returns over a number of years. The effort requires a step back from the buy-and-hold mindset that characterizes

Whether it’s behaving like a bull or a bear, the gold market offers high liquidity and excellent opportunities to profit in nearly all environments due to its unique position within the world’s economic and political systems. While many folks choose