by Henry Liverman | May 14, 2021 | Market Definitions
A list published by Inc. of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. The requirements to be included are 1. Be a US-based independent company (ie not owned by a subsidiary), 2. You started earning revenue by March 31st of the first year, 3. Had at least...
by Henry Liverman | May 13, 2021 | Market Definitions
A term used to refer to a list of the 500 largest companies in the United States as compiled by Fortune magazine each year. The companies are ranked according to their annual revenues and fiscal years. Since 1955, to be included in the Fortune 500 is taken as a mark...
by Henry Liverman | May 13, 2021 | Market Definitions
Technical trading method based off the Fibonacci numbers in ratio form. A Fibonacci retracement is created by taking two extreme points on a price chart (generally a peak and a trough) and dividing the vertical distance by the Fibonacci ratios of 23.6%, 38.2%, 50%,...
by Henry Liverman | May 13, 2021 | Market Definitions
Fibonacci sequences are common patterns in nature that some traders believe to also be significant in financial markets. The common Fibonacci sequence is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on. In trading, the sequence is commonly understood to be 61.8%, 100%,...
by Henry Liverman | May 13, 2021 | Market Definitions
A pattern of data that represents greater and greater increases as time moves forward, mimicking the shape of an exponential function. In the world of finance, exponential growth is associated with compound interest. So an account with a compounding interest rate...
