Targeted Strategies for Today's Evolving Markets

MissionIR Blog

Category Archives: Market Basics

Atlasta Resources Corp. (ATL) Starts Presentation at Annual Marcum MicroCap Conference

Atlasta Resources Corp. (NYSE: ATL) is a black economic empowerment (BEE) platinum group metals (PGM) mining, exploration and development company, with assets located on the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa. Atlatsa holds a controlling interest in Bokoni Platinum Mines … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Latronix, Inc. (LTRX) Starts Presentation at Annual Marcum MicroCap Conference

Lantronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX) provides secure communication technologies that are designed to simplify access and communication with and between virtually any electronic device. The company’s smart connectivity solutions enable sharing data between devices and applications via networks and the Internet. … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Trend Lines

Trend lines are very similar to the support and resistance levels. In the same way a stock is likely to bounce on a support level, a stock will likely bounce on an upward trend line. A trend line is simply … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Support & Resistance

Support and resistance lines can help investors decide at what price to buy or sell a stock. As a stock drifts towards support and gets cheaper, buyers will become more inclined to buy and sellers become less inclined to sell. … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Gaps

A gap occurs when the close of the market on one day is significantly different than the open of the next day. Many things can cause this such as earnings reports, press releases, or new analyst ratings. Gaps show that … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Candlesticks

A single candlestick shows how a stock traded within a certain time frame (minutes, days, weeks or even months). The candle stick can tell you where the stock opened and closed as well as its high and low. The rectangle … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Chart Patterns

Every day hundreds of thousands of market participants buy and sell securities for a wide variety of reasons: hope of gain, fear of loss, tax consequences, short-covering, hedging, stop-loss triggers, price target triggers, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, broker recommendations and … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

Overview of Financial Ratios

Financial ratios are mathematical calculations used to determine a company’s valuation. Each ratio uses different measures in its calculations. Values used in calculating financial ratios are taken from the balance sheet, income statement, statement of cash flows or the statement … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

The Cash Flow Statement

The cash flow statement reports how much cash comes in and goes out of the company over a certain period of time. This might sounds a lot like the income statement, but there is a big difference between the two. … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment

The Balance Sheet

Although investors often overlook the balance sheet, it is an integral part of the financial statements. The balance sheet offers a snapshot of a company’s health, revealing how much a company owns (its assets) and how much it owes (its … Continue reading

Posted in Market Basics | Leave a comment