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Financial Analysis – A “Check-up” for a Business

Shane Legatzke — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:11:38 +0000

Just like we all care about our personal health, managers and investors care about the health of their company. How can they perform a “check-up” on their business in order to determine its progress and financial health? Instead of weight or blood pressure, analysts use financial ratios.

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Future Options

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:50:51 +0000

Future Options are exactly what their name implies - an option on a futures contract.

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Balance Sheet

Kevin Smith — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:40:17 +0000

The balance sheet is a financial snapshot of the firm on a specific date - specifically their assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity

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Income Statement

Kevin Smith — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:38:01 +0000

The Income Statement is one of the financial statements that all publicly traded companies share with their investors, which shows the company's sales, expenses, and net profit (or loss) over a period of time--usually 3 months, year-to-date, and twelve months.

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Fibonacci Arcs and Fibonacci Retracement

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:52:02 +0000

Fibonacci Arcs and retracements are used as a technical indicator to determine support and resistance. As with most indicators it can be used to see if a breakout has occurred or if a reversal is likely to happen.

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Asset Allocation

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:21:11 +0000

"Asset Allocation" is how you have divided up your investments across different assets. You can have all your assets in one place, or you can use diversification to spread them around to reduce risk.

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Volume Weighted Average

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:11:51 +0000

In finance, Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP) is a ratio of the profit traded to complete volume traded over a distinct time horizon - normally one day. It's a portion of the average price a stock traded at over the trading horizon.

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Pullback

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 18:40:31 +0000

A pullback is a technical analysis term used frequently when a stock "pulls" back to a resistance and/or support line, usually after a breakout has occurred.

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Double Bottom

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:32:35 +0000

Double Bottoms are reversal patterns and often seem to be one of the most common (together with double top patterns) patterns for currency trading. Double Bottoms patterns are identified by two consecutive low prices of the same depth with a moderate pull back up in between (neckline peak).

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Head and Shoulders

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 20:38:32 +0000

The head-and-shoulders pattern is one of the most popular chart patterns in technical analysis and indicates that a reversal is likely to happen after the pattern has been completed.

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