The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has been setting new records in 2026, up by nearly 21% over the last 12 months and around 41% ...

Stock charts help traders measure the movement and momentum of a stock's up and down trading patterns. Reading stock charts can give you key insights into a company's perceived value. Key components ...

A stock-market indicator that has been used by investment analysts for more than a century flashed a bullish signal this week ...

Identifying stocks that are attracting significant institutional demand can drastically improve the chances of investing ...

Fundamental analysis tries to determine value and estimate the future market price based on a stock's underlying fundamentals. Technical analysis relies on charts to forecast prices. The goal of ...

When stock market forecasts are cloudy, and investors are more bearish than bullish, it may be tempting to accumulate shares at a lower price. But there’s always the chance that the market could go ...

Stella Osoba is the Senior Editor of trading and investing at Investopedia. She co-founded and chaired Women in Technical Analysis. She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical ...

During the heyday of technical analysis from 1960 to 1985, some of the best indicators of market direction were the odd lot and public short selling ratios. High levels of short selling were positive ...

Stock market indicators are back at extreme or practically extreme levels, suggesting that a topping process is underway. These metrics tend to be confirmed by the “upgrades” to tech stocks now being ...