The first step in calculating ATR is to find a series of true range values for a security. The price range of an asset for a given trading day is its high minus its low. To find an asset's true range ...

Now that you’ve got a grasp on how to build a strong portfolio with asset allocation and diversification, let’s explore a different approach some investors use to time the market: technical analysis.

Technical Analysis is built on the assumption that a security's price and volume history can serve as an indicator for future price movements. Technical Analysis assumes that trading behaviors of ...

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