Gold has a rich history dating back thousands of years, admired for its beauty and rarity. It has been used for currency, jewelry, and ornamental purposes across civilizations. But more recently, it has been widely used for speculating in the commodities market and as a hedge for inflation (store of value). Let’s look at a…
What Is FAANG and What Does It Stand For? FAANG is an acronym that represents five of the most prominent and influential technology companies in the world. Each letter in FAANG stands for one of these companies: Facebook (now Meta Platforms, Inc.): A social media giant known for its flagship platform, Facebook, as well as…
Let’s say you are a wealthy person who has already achieved FIRE (financial independence – retire early) and wants to preserve your wealth. It doesn’t matter what strategy or portfolio you used to achieve wealth because it requires completely different methods, mindsets, and portfolios to preserve it. Simply put, a portfolio used to build wealth…
There are many ways investors try to determine if the stock market is overvalued or not. Some people rely on technical indicators to gauge whether the market is overextended or overbought, while others employ valuation measures like the P/E ratio, P/B ratio, or the CAPE ratio. Yes, based on empirical data, The CAPE Ratio predicts…
What Are the Best Asset Classes to Get Rich? To become rich, you will need to choose a portfolio that will generate the highest possible return with the lowest potential risk. Imagine that you are a poor person who wants to become rich. The stock market offers you many asset classes and investment portfolios, but…
Next week is OPEX week (options expiration), and it’s also quadruple witching week. How have the markets performed that week? Let’s have a look at S&P 500 (SPY) and how it performs for the respective months during this week. Trading Rules [am4show have=’p2;p3;p58;p59;p130;p138;’ user_error=’Premium Post Access’ guest_error=’Premium Posts’] We enter at the open of the…
After decades of relying on fossil fuels to power the economy, there is increasing demand for Clean Energy such as solar, wind, and geothermal power. As the world seeks to transition into a green energy future, many traders now seek to participate. Can we create a clean energy trading strategy that trades the clean energy…
TradingView is a popular tool with many traders due to its vast array of tools and features. TradingView uses its native code language, Pine Script, to implement indicators and backtest trading strategies. In this article, we’ll go through some basics of using Pine Script in backtesting by going through a step-by-step process. Follow this process,…
The advent of electronic trading and the high-frequency trading bot that follows it meant that the financial markets have become too efficient to successfully trade them with discretionary methods. This is why algorithmic trading has been on the rise among retail traders. But while many traders aspire to become algorithmic traders, a lot of them…
The PENTAD Timing Model By Nelson Freeburg is an active, complicated strategy that uses four stock indices and one advance/decline line for producing buy/sell signals. This timing model is designed for the US stock market. Using this timing model, you do not need to be in the market 100% of the time and expose yourself…
