Volatility is important for position sizing, determining risk, calculating stops and profit-targets, and rebalancing portfolios. Average true range is a useful measure for position sizing in futures ...

Innovation and technology play a major role in today's trade and financial markets. In the past, trading success was mainly dependent on logic, calculations and intuition; today, advanced algorithms ...

The first step in calculating ATR is to find a series of true range values for a security. The price range of an asset for a given trading day is its high minus its low. To find an asset's true range ...

The VIX ended last week just above 16, bringing it to its highest level in 2024. What does this tell us about investor sentiment, and how does this compare to previous market cycles? Let’s take a ...

Bitcoin BTC $89,877.16 traders could be in for another thrilling ride. A key technical indicator that presaged November's price surge is positioned precisely as it was then, signaling a potential ...

Forex trading is a dynamic, ongoing market that challenges the trader to employ decision-making skills based on history, trend, and price action. To prosper in the challenging marketplace, forex ...

At Schaeffer’s, we use a variety of indicators in our writing to describe stock and trader behavior. While some of these terms may seem confusing at first, they’re actually easy to understand — and ...

If you’ve ever stepped into the world of Forex trading, you already know it’s like stepping into a fast-flowing river — it never stops moving. The currency market operates 24/5, reacting to global ...

Bitcoin price consolidates above $100,000 amid a “risk-on” market fueled by the US-China trade deal, falling inflation and optimistic investor sentiment indicators. Bitcoin price holds above $100,000, ...

The stock market's volatility gauge is signaling a trough in the S&P 500. Futures for the CBOE Volatility Index indicated more uncertainty about the near term than longer term. Such backwardation is ...

Looking at some of Schaeffer's commonly used options indicators At Schaeffer’s, we use a variety of indicators in our writing to describe stock and trader behavior. While some of these terms may seem ...