Trading Basics
Chart Patterns
Technical analysts use repeatable chart patterns to try to spot changes or continuations in participant sentiment.
Other Trading Basics
Arbirtage
Simultaneously buying and selling a security at two different prices in two different markets, with the aim of making a profit without the risk of prices fluctuating.
Contango
This is when the futures price of a security is above the cash price at maturity. The opposite is backwardation.
Closing Trade
A trade to close a position. Most trading requires the trader to place the opposite trade to that done when opening their position.
This will crystallise the profit or loss.
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