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Mon, 5 October 2020
Technical Analysis Part 5: Volume, Volatility, and Sentiment
Learn how analysing volume, volatility, and sentiment could help give you supportive, independent information in your analysis of any given asset. It looks at how much an asset has traded over time, how that asset behaves and how the market ‘feels’ about your asset.
Mon, 5 October 2020
Technical Analysis Part 4: Price Confirmation Tools – Trend and Momentum
Covering the basic tools you need to analyse trend and price action. Stephen shows you how to use Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicators, Commodity Channel Indices (CCI), the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastics to decode the latest price action and identify ways to trade.
Mon, 5 October 2020
Technical Analysis Part 3: Direct Price Analysis (DPA) Tools
Learn eight key aspects of technical analysis: trends, support & resistance, patterns on price, moving averages, bands, trending or ranging markets, Fibonacci, pivot points, and Ichimoku. Together, these form the basis of detailed technical analysis and allow you to dive deeper into market movements to find the signals that will inform your trading.
Mon, 5 October 2020
Technical Analysis Part 2: Essential Chart Knowledge – The Basics
Understand the raw basics needed to be a successful technical analyst. Covering line chars, bar charts, candlestick charts and more, as well as market breadth, Part Two shows you how to navigate the markets, how to spot and read price gaps, and how to use breadth to understand the health of the market.
Mon, 5 October 2020
Technical Analysis Part 1: Rules you need to know and the big questions
Find out why technical analysis is a powerful addition to your trading strategy. Learn the key rules of technical analysis that will inform every trading decision and get the answers to the most burning questions you always wanted to ask, but never had the opportunity.
Mon, 5 October 2020
How to invest in shares
Investing in shares is a way to generate income, save for the future and speculate on individual companies, sectors and the entire stock market. Of course, the value of your investments can go down as well as up. In this short 7-step guide we will explain the basics of investing.
Tue, 30 June 2020
What is short selling a stock?
Short selling, or shorting, is a strategy used by traders in an attempt to profit from falls in the price of a stock. While you can short other assets types, such as FX, commodities, or indices, stocks are the most commonly shorted instrument.
Fri, 12 June 2020
How to trade IPOs – 3 ways to trade IPO stocks with Marketsx
IPO stocks can offer some of the biggest trading opportunities on the market. Initial public offerings, or IPOs, attract a lot of attention and the IPO market is closely watched to find the next big stock. Marketsx gives you three ways to trade IPO stocks: CFDs on newly listed shares, grey markets to trade companies pre IPO, and the Renaissance Capital IPO ETF.
Thu, 11 June 2020
Recent IPOs in 2020: What’s happened so far?
It took a while for the IPO market to come back online in 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic slamming the brakes on many planned stock market debuts. But recent IPOs have shown that the demand has not gone away. Many of the companies who have gone public have seen an explosion of interest in their stock.