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The investing and trading library
Clear, thorough guides to the markets — from your first stock to reading a 10-K, every chart indicator, candlestick patterns, economic data and the rules of trading.
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- Using the Stock Master app Step-by-step guides to the Stock Master iPhone app — watchlists, quotes, charts, alerts, screeners and your account. 21 guides
- Using Finabase on the web How to get the most from finabase.io — symbol pages, the chart workspace, screeners, scanners, backtests, portfolios and alerts. 20 guides
- Investing basics The foundations every investor needs — what stocks and funds are, how markets work, risk and return, diversification and building a first portfolio. 34 guides
- Trading fundamentals and rules Order types, settlement, margin, short selling, the pattern-day-trader rule, risk management, trading psychology and options basics. 39 guides
- Technical analysis Reading price charts — trends, support and resistance, volume, chart patterns, Fibonacci, divergence and multi-timeframe analysis. 27 guides
- Technical indicators Every indicator in the Finabase chart — what it measures, the formula, the default settings, how to read its signals and where it fails. 41 guides
- Candlestick patterns Every candlestick pattern the Finabase scanner detects — the exact formation, the psychology behind it, confirmation and how reliable it really is. 61 guides
- Fundamental analysis and financial reports How to read a 10-K and an earnings report, the three financial statements, the key ratios and how to value a business. 47 guides
- Economics and economic data How the economy moves markets — GDP, inflation, jobs, the Federal Reserve, interest rates, the yield curve and the economic calendar. 48 guides
- Asset classes Beyond stocks — bonds, ETFs, REITs, commodities and futures, forex and crypto, and how each one behaves. 28 guides
- Financial articles Market history, behavioral finance, how famous investors think and what really moves stock prices. 25 guides
- Financial glossary Plain-English definitions of the terms investors and traders meet every day, from accrual to zero-coupon bond. 412 guides
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- Fundamental analysis and financial reports 13F filings: what institutional holdings reports show and miss Who must file Form 13F, the 45-day lag, what is reported and left out, how 13F differs from Schedules 13D and 13G, and the traps in reading fund holdings.
- Candlestick patterns Abandoned baby candlestick: the rare double-gap reversal How the abandoned baby pattern works, the two price gaps TA-Lib demands, why Finabase never flags it, and the single real case in 29,760 daily bars.
- Technical indicators Absolute Price Oscillator (APO): moving-average gap in dollars What the Absolute Price Oscillator measures, why Finabase’s APO uses simple averages unlike MACD, a worked example on Visa, its zero-line signals and their limits.
- Using the Stock Master app Add indicators and candlestick patterns to Stock Master charts Add any of 30 indicators, 13 overlays and 61 candlestick patterns to a Stock Master chart, change their settings and colors, and save the layout.
- Using Finabase on the web Add indicators, drawings and chart templates on finabase.io Add and tune indicators and candlestick patterns on a Finabase web chart, draw trend lines and Fibonacci levels, and save chart templates per range or by name.
- Candlestick patterns Advance block candlestick pattern: a rally running out of breath How to spot an advance block, the four weakening tests TA-Lib applies, why it warns rather than reverses, and what 164 real advance blocks did next.
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Educational content, not investment advice. Finabase Learn explains how markets and tools work. It does not recommend any security or strategy, and examples are for illustration only. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Rules and figures are for the United States unless stated and can change — check the cited source before you act.