Trading Basics
Candlestick Chart
A type of chart using a security’s opening, closing, high and low price for a particular period.
Other Trading Basics
Bullish and Bearish Markets
A bullish market means that the price is going up and higher.
Bottom Up Analysis
A form of fundamental analysis which starts with analysis of the individual parts.
Bottom up analysis of an index would involve the analysis of each company in that index.
Bear Market
A Bear Market occurs when the price of a security is falling, and the negative outlook of the security causes the security’s price to continue to fall, causing a self-sustaining problem.
For a downturn like this to be officially considered a bear market, it must be on-going for longer than two months, otherwise it is known as a correction.
Bears are generally traders with a pessimistic view on markets that look to profit from a decline in prices.
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