Tip Ranks offers the standard free screening methodology, along with a focus on consensus ratings and price targets that can help novice traders get a sense of what stocks Wall Street likes. Just ...

Fundamental analysis tries to determine value and estimate the future market price based on a stock's underlying fundamentals. Technical analysis relies on charts to forecast prices. The goal of ...

The chart above is an example of a simple moving average on a stock chart of Google Inc. (GOOG). The blue line represents the stock price, while the orange line represents the 50-day moving average.

You might say that reading a stock chart is a bit like learning how ... much information you can gather from just a very, very simple chart. There'll be some times where it's a great setup.