After Hours is the trading session outside of RTH. Most of the time the liquidity during AH is not very good, making erratic price movements more likely.
Measured move is a highly structured price movement that consists of 2 swings in the same direction with a pause in-between. Detailed explanation can be find in this article
Head and Shoulder is a classic chart pattern that has been used abusively by many people or amateur chartists. There is only one form of HS that has statistical significance. ...
It has many names as it is discovered and rediscovered again and again by different people.
When you see a move, say an up move, retracements are expected. If a retracement ...
A price spike thru an important price level and then immediately snap back and bounded by the price level again.
For example, a stock can spike through its 20-week highest close ...
3 short thursts in the same direction yet price does not gain much ground in that direction. A reliable pattern pointing to short term exhaustion and that a pullback is ...
Non-Farm Payroll report is an highly anticipated economic report with major significance in moving both stock markets and forex majors. See its Survival Guide for more details.
Trader or bot whose primary function / objective is to profit from the orderflow of a market. For some market, the privilege of being a market maker also comes with ...
A clear directional change is happening and initial impulse move has already started. Yet, the market pulled back magically and stuck there for a while before the market can continue ...