Technical Analysis

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Technical Analysis

How to Use the Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Learn how the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, works and how it can help investors analyze trends.

Technical Analysis

How to Read Stock Charts and Trading Patterns

Learn how to read stock charts and analyze trading chart patterns, including spotting trends, identifying support and resistance, and recognizing market reversals and breakout patterns.

Stocks

How to Read a Stock Chart

Learn how to interpret a stock chart to understand the movement of the stock market and an individual stock's performance, as well as how to make sound financial decisions.

Technical Analysis

Trading Stocks with the MACD

Watch to learn how the MACD indicator can help you measure a stock's momentum and identify potential buy and sell signals.

Order Types

Buy, Sell, and Hold Stock Analysis: What to Consider

Learn how to use stop and limit orders and why reading financial statements could be important for buy/sell/hold analysis.

Options

What Are Options Collars?

Options collars offer stock hedges with reasonable upsides. Learn how dynamic options collar strategies can potentially help build larger stock positions over time.

Options

Theta Decay in Options Trading

The value of an option decreases as time passes and expiration approaches. Understand theta in options and three trading strategies that target time decay.

Technical Analysis

Swing Trading Strategies

Swing trading strategies attempt to capitalize on price fluctuations over the short term. Learn how traders use swing trades.

Stocks

How to Use Moving Averages for Stock Trading

Learn how to use a simple moving average to confirm established trends, along with the pros and cons of applying it to different time frames.

Trading

How to Trade Simple Moving Averages

A stock's simple moving average can help traders identify when trends are established or broken. Here's how to employ them in your own trading.

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Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.

Options carry a high level of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Certain requirements must be met to trade options through Schwab. Investing involves risks, including loss of principal. Hedging and protective strategies generally involve additional costs and do not assure a profit or guarantee against loss. With long options, investors may lose 100% of funds invested. Covered calls provide downside protection only to the extent of the premium received. Please read the options disclosure document titled "Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options." Supporting documentation for any claims or statistical information is available upon request.

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