The Global Update

Coronavirus has the US and most of the world on a near-lockdown. Many businesses are reducing capacity or temporarily closing, and people are self-isolating.  The US markets appear to be in freefall despite the Federal Reserve’s emergency measure to cut

If you’re a short-term trader, you’ve likely woken up early in the morning ready to trade the markets only to realize that the big move had already happened overnight. This may leave you with very little to do, save waiting

Like you, we are staying up to date on all of the COVID-19 news and adjusting to these unprecedented times. For the safety of our employees and our community, we are following the recommended guidelines of the CDC and California

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Every first Friday of the month, there is an expectation of possible market volatility as the US Employment Situation report (more popularly referred to as the Jobs Report) gets released at 8:30 am ET. As a trader, even if you

There are several reasons why a trader might have expected volatility to have ramped up in January: the big December jobs report, beginning of Q4 corporate earnings season, the presidential impeachment trial, potential winding down of the US-China trade war,

On its most basic level, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum indicator that can be  used to forecast potential “overbought” and “oversold” levels. But like most indicators forecasting price levels that are either too high or too low,

In the first two weeks of 2020, hostilities between the US and Iran quickly escalated to what many feared would result in an all-out war: On January 3, President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Iran’s top general, Qasem

Many futures index traders make most of their trades based on technical analysis. If the trader is not reacting to price action, he or she is anticipating price action based on technical patterns. What technical traders may be missing is