Trading Blog - Page 13

A plain-English guide to margin trading. Learn how buying on margin works, what a margin call is, how to calculate margin requirements, and why leverage is the fastest way to blow up a trading account.

Learn fundamental analysis from a trader's perspective. Understand the key financial metrics (PE, EPS, Revenue Growth), how to read earnings reports, and how to combine fundamentals with technical analysis.

Learn price action trading — the purest form of technical analysis. No indicators, no overlays — just reading the raw story that candles, structure, and volume tell you about market sentiment.

Use this 10-question pre-trade checklist to verify setup rules, entry, invalidation, position size, execution conditions, event risk, and decision quality before placing a trade.

Learn four swing-trading setup families for pullbacks, support and resistance, breakouts, and trend transitions, with clear rules for testing entries, invalidation, exits, and replay results.

Learn what trading volume measures, how data differs by market, and how to review volume around trends, breakouts, and exhaustion without fixed thresholds.

Learn how to draw trend lines the right way, common mistakes that invalidate your lines, and how to trade trend line bounces and breaks for profit.

Learn how U.S. stock short sales work: locate and borrow rules, changing fees, margin risk, Rule 201, recalls, buy-ins, and covering.

A beginner-friendly guide to trading ETFs. Learn what ETFs are, the most popular ETFs for trading, and how to use ETFs for day trading, swing trading, and portfolio hedging.

Compare market, limit, stop, and stop-limit orders with buy-side examples. Learn price limits, activation triggers, non-fill risks, and what to check before trading.

Learn how pre-market and after-hours stock trading works, how hours and order rules vary, and how to check liquidity, quotes, fills, and data before trading.

There is no universal trading-account minimum. Learn how account type, U.S. day-trading margin rules, product margin, position size, and loss limits determine how much capital you actually need.