Learn about historical patterns in bull and bear markets how they form, and what history teaches about stock market cycles ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

There is a four-year presidential stock cycle, a 10-year stock market cycle, and a seven-year stock crash cycle. One or more of these cycles will be in a weak period between now and early 2018. Cycle ...

Master stock chart patterns with Interactive Brokers as your online stock broker. Stock chart patterns are tools that traders and investors use to understand how the market is performing. They provide ...

If you prefer to leave math and graphs in your past with school, being a stock trader probably isn't for you. Stock traders fall into two categories, according to Angelo DeCandia, professor of ...

I woke up a very proud dad. It was my daughter’s first day of kindergarten yesterday. And I’m not afraid to admit I had tears walking her to school in her little green uniform. The parents seemed more ...

Corporate earnings momentum remains in cyclical decline. Industrial metals, a real-time indicator of the earnings cycle, point to continued softness in the market cycle. After having diverged from the ...

Long-term Treasury yields don’t necessarily fall in the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate-cutting cycles, with history showing they sometimes rise on average, according to Deutsche Bank Research. “At ...