Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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On-Balance Volume — a running total that adds the session's volume on up days and subtracts it on down days.
Rising while price goes sideways suggests quiet accumulation, which is the signature institutions leave when they cannot buy in one order.
A move through an obvious level that triggers resting orders and then reverses.
Break on volume, no close beyond, quick reclaim. A genuine breakdown holds; consuming a pool of stops does not.
The tendency for stop-loss orders to accumulate at the same obvious levels.
Below swing lows, at round numbers, under moving averages — every book recommends the same place, so everyone uses it.
Cash or liquid funds held back specifically to be deployed into a decline.
Only genuine when the deployment levels are written down beforehand. Vague intent to buy the fall reliably turns into buying after the recovery is obvious.
A move beyond a level that fails and reverses back inside it.
Stops cluster just past obvious levels, which makes them a tempting pool of liquidity.
A change in the prevailing direction of price.
Judge it on closing prices, not on wicks. Intraday probes through obvious levels are routine.
Working past the immediate consequence of an event to what follows once everyone else has reacted.
The obvious consequence is priced before you finish the sentence. Whatever return exists lives one step further on.
A primary financial statement required under Schedule III Division II, showing every component of equity moving from opening to closing balance.
The fourth statement, which almost nobody opens, and the only place the year is laid out reserve by reserve. A translation reserve that has been accumulating for years becomes obvious here and nowhere else.