While there is certainly a right time and wrong time to buy stocks, there is never a wrong time to learn how to invest. You're likely familiar with the adage "buy low, sell high." IBD's research has ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

With the stock market climbing and consolidating every few weeks this year, many stocks have formed base-on-base patterns. Keep an eye out for those, because they tend to be strong chart formations.

Sometimes a top growth stock will form a solid-looking base, but the breakout will be lackluster. It will make progress for a while, then stall and move sideways again. Price action like this can be ...