One of the first lessons you’ll learn in this game is that earnings aren’t always about the headline revenue number. Everyone’s eyes go straight to sales, but smart traders know you’ve got to look under the hood. Case in point: American Eagle’s latest report. On paper, revenue was flat. $1.28 billion this quarter, basically the … Read more
What is the difference between the stock ticker symbols KO and COKE? They are two completely different companies. The stock ticker symbol for The Coca-Cola Company, the beverage company everyone knows, is KO. The ticker symbol COKE represents Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. This company is a bottling facility licensed to produce Coca-Cola beverages. However, it is … Read more
Spreadsheets have come a long way and gotten more powerful since the days of Lotus 123 (one of the early spreadsheet software programs released in 1983). Today, we will show how to import stock prices into Google Sheets. Contents Google Sheets is free to anyone with a Google account. Anyone who has Gmail has a … Read more
SCTR stands for StockCharts Technical Rank and is pronounced: “scooter.” It uses a proprietary technique to rank stocks based on technical analysis. So, you will not find this score outside of StockCharts.com. Fortunately, StockCharts made it publicly available and not behind a paywall. To see the SCTR for your favorite stock, just go to the … Read more
If you were previously unimpressed by TradingView’s stock screener, make sure you are looking at TradingView’s completely new stock screener instead of its legacy stock screener. Contents The newer version of the stock screener can be accessed on TradingView.com by clicking on the right-hand sidebar icon that looks like a radar: Ensure you are using … Read more
Some stocks and ETFs are highly correlated with each other. When the price of one goes up, the price of the other also goes up. Others are inversely correlated with each other. When the price of one goes up, the price of the other goes down. How can we determine if two stocks are correlated … Read more
By José Carlos Gonzáles Tanaka Prerequisites This blog is a hands-on tutorial that walks you through the math behind the ARIMA model and how to implement it as a backtesting strategy for stock trading. You’ll not only learn how to apply ARIMA models but also how to enhance your results with advanced concepts and references. … Read more
The S&P 500 had its worst quarter in three years. Investors are shifting capital from North America to Europe. Once-booming US tech stocks have collapsed. Major banks and respected institutions are raising the odds of a recession for the American economy. That’s a lot of bad news for a broad stock index, isn’t it? However, … Read more
By José Carlos Gonzáles Tanaka The ARFIMA model is well suited for capturing long-range memory in financial time series. However, it’s not always the case the time series exhibits long memory in their autocorrelation. The ARTFIMA model comes to the rescue to capture not only the long memory but also its short one and the … Read more
By Ajay Pawar Have you ever noticed how a model that once predicted stock prices with pinpoint accuracy suddenly starts missing the mark? This isn’t just bad luck—it’s often the result of concept drift or model drift, common challenges in the ever-evolving world of quantitative finance. Financial markets are anything but static; their dynamic nature … Read more