Markets rarely move in straight lines. Instead, they spend long stretches trading sideways in what Wyckoff described as accumulation (when large players are building long positions) or distribution ...

Traders on the Shanghai Futures Exchange have played a key role in driving gold’s bull market over the past two years, and ...

I've spent my 30-plus-year career discovering some of the most obscure and lucrative patterns in the world. Now, you might've heard the term before—or even tried trading patterns yourself. But almost ...

Pattern day trading is more a designation than a style of investing. And the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) gets to decide who is and isn’t qualified to do it. Pattern day trading is ...

Markets can be volatile at times. But even amid volatility, there are opportunities for pattern trading – including butterfly pattern trading. This charting pattern is the product of volatility and ...

You can violate the pattern day trader (PDT) rules without realizing it. The consequences for violating PDT vary, but can be inconvenient for investors who are not actively trading. For active ...