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What is an Uptrend?
An uptrend is a continuous upward movement in a stock's price.
An uptrend is an upward movement over a few increments of time (whatever time increment being used), where the successive numbers being compared continue to increase. The parameters being compared might be just peaks, just troughs, closing prices, or averages, but formally it is defined as increased in successive peaks and troughs both.
A security purchased at the beginning of an uptrend will increase in value until the trend reverses (downtrend), and the uptrend is officially over when a successive peak or trough fails to beat the value before it. Some traders use that point as the selling signal to get out, and to look for another uptrend in a different security.
Most traders use other means of technical analysis in combination to determine when to buy or sell, such as the MACD.
What are International Equity Funds?
International equity funds hold stocks of corporations based outside of the United States
What if My Life Insurance Doesn’t Pay the Death Benefit to My Survivors?
Generally a life insurance company will have to pay a death benefit once the contestability period of two years has passed
How Do You Sell Bitcoin?
There are several (and a growing number) of ways to sell your bitcoin and/or convert it to cash
What is the Price/Earnings to Growth Ratio (PEG Ratio)?
The Price/Earnings to Growth Ratio (PEG Ratio) is used to determine a company’s value relative to its expected growth
What is backtesting?
Backtesting is to simulate what it would have been like to use a certain strategy or indicator in the past | Options
What is a Money Market?
Money market securities are essentially IOUs issued by governments, financial institutions and large corporations
What is Ex-Date?
The Ex-Date is for a stock indicates the last date of the month where a dividend is payable
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What is Sharpe Ratio?
Sharpe Ratio reduces the two measures of mean and variance into one value that to indicate how much return is expected
What is a "Breakpoint"?
A breakpoint generally refers to a level of investment at which the fee structure changes