Options are contracts that give you the RIGHT (but not the obligation) to buy or sell a stock at a specific price by a s

Every quarter, public companies release an earnings report that tells you how they performed over the past three months.

The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is the central bank of the United States and the single most powerful institution in finan

The economy moves in cycles — expansion, peak, contraction, trough — and different sectors of the stock market lead at d

Technical analysis is the study of price and volume data to forecast future moves. Two of the most widely used indicator

The Price-to-Earnings ratio (P/E) is the most widely used valuation metric in investing. It answers a simple question: h

Support and resistance are the most fundamental concepts in technical analysis — they're the floor and ceiling that pric

Volume is the number of shares traded in a given period — and it's the most underrated indicator in a retail trader's to

Short selling is betting that a stock will go DOWN. Here's the mechanics: you borrow shares from your broker (who lends

You can't trade the entire market. There are over 6,000 stocks listed on US exchanges, and trying to watch all of them m