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An SPX gap down of 0.5% or worse hits roughly 12-14% of sessions, yet the average open-to-close return is just +0.01%, so the real signal is a 1.4 to 2.4 times wider intraday range, not direction.]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:13:31 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/spx-gap-down-0dte-traders-october-2026/ https://stockwirex.com/education/spx-gap-down-0dte-traders-october-2026/
The RSI indicator jumped from 28 to above 70 in about 12 trading days while the S&P 500 rebounded 17%, proving why the buy-at-30, sell-at-70 rule so often misleads traders.]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:43:48 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/rsi-indicator-overbought-oversold-divergence/ https://stockwirex.com/education/rsi-indicator-overbought-oversold-divergence/
Coca-Cola, Polaroid and Xerox were all excellent businesses in 1972, yet buyers at the peak lost 69% to 91%, proving that price paid vs business quality decides your real return.]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:45:57 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/price-paid-business-quality-nifty-fifty/ https://stockwirex.com/education/price-paid-business-quality-nifty-fifty/
Annaly paid a $0.75 dividend and still delivered a -7.6% economic return in Q3 2026, so here is the checklist mortgage REITs investors need to tell earned income from capital quietly handed back to them.]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:42:00 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/mortgage-reit-book-value-dividend-yield-october-2026/ https://stockwirex.com/education/mortgage-reit-book-value-dividend-yield-october-2026/
Option liquidity during a selloff can vanish fast: after Autoliv fell about 6.8%, one spread doubled to roughly $1.20 and a 100-strike put had no bid at all.]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:44:45 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/option-liquidity-selloff-bid-ask-spreads/ https://stockwirex.com/education/option-liquidity-selloff-bid-ask-spreads/
IVV vs NDQ looks like a choice between the whole US market and a targeted tech play, but the two ETFs share nine of their top ten holdings, overlap by about 92% and move with a correlation near 0.95.]]> Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:29:33 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/ivv-vs-ndq-etf-overlap-october-2026/ https://stockwirex.com/education/ivv-vs-ndq-etf-overlap-october-2026/
Gold sold for cash, a dollar with no safe-haven bid and CCC spreads at 1,327 bp: here is how cross-asset signals separate a routine pullback from a genuine defensive shift.]]> Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:45:49 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/cross-asset-signals-pullback-defensive-shift/ https://stockwirex.com/education/cross-asset-signals-pullback-defensive-shift/
A $44 billion Nvidia and Blackstone-backed IPO collapsed on the ASX, yet reacting to headlines investing habits cost investors far more: Sharesight data shows the heaviest traders lagged those who never traded.]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:29:40 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/reacting-to-headlines-investing-firmus-gmo-sharesight/ https://stockwirex.com/education/reacting-to-headlines-investing-firmus-gmo-sharesight/
Headline CPI hit 3.7% in September 2026, yet the bond market prices only about 2.35% average inflation over the next decade, which makes TIPS inflation protection look cheap and the Bloomberg US Aggregate's omission of TIPS the reason why.]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:13:43 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/tips-inflation-protection-bond-benchmark/ https://stockwirex.com/education/tips-inflation-protection-bond-benchmark/
A range bound market can still print a record high: the S&P 500 finished roughly flat over about 80 days yet hit 7,844.52 on 6 October 2026, and the broken trend line, failed retest and price gaps behind it show how to read the signal.]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:15:15 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/range-bound-market-sp-500-record-high-october-2026/ https://stockwirex.com/education/range-bound-market-sp-500-record-high-october-2026/
Vertical spread delta can jump from about 8 shares of exposure with 59 days left to about 55 shares with one day left, with no change in the stock price and no new trade placed.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:14:18 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/vertical-spread-delta-near-expiry/ https://stockwirex.com/education/vertical-spread-delta-near-expiry/
George Noble's long short investing record shows his longs beating his shorts by a raw 67% spread (roughly 120% annualised), yet he admits luck played a part, and the lessons on net exposure, rate risk and squeezes matter more now that the Fed has hiked.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:45:59 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/long-short-investing-rate-hikes-short-squeeze-october-2026/ https://stockwirex.com/education/long-short-investing-rate-hikes-short-squeeze-october-2026/
A range bound market hides its signals at the edges, and Monday's late-session reversal in oil, yields and volatility showed how quickly a stalled Nasdaq-100 can bounce while the S&P 500 held 7,690.73.]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:44:17 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/range-bound-market-breakout-signals/ https://stockwirex.com/education/range-bound-market-breakout-signals/
Failed breakout trading comes down to four observable tests (location, break, reclaim, follow-through), and a 20-example study exercise shows why most new highs and lows should be left alone.]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:43:51 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/failed-breakout-trading-strategy/ https://stockwirex.com/education/failed-breakout-trading-strategy/
Australians lost $76.7 million to scams in just three months, and the online classifieds business model, built to stay outside the payment, is now being tested by both fraud losses and new regulation.]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:36:45 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/online-classifieds-business-model-scams/ https://stockwirex.com/education/online-classifieds-business-model-scams/
Five clean screen results can secretly be one position, and stock correlation trading is the quick check that shows whether your volatility and trend candidates are genuinely independent bets or one theme in disguise.]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:11:39 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/stock-correlation-trading-portfolio-concentration-risk/ https://stockwirex.com/education/stock-correlation-trading-portfolio-concentration-risk/
Space stock valuation starts with disqualifying, not picking: a six-flag screen and a simple valuation ratio exposed Quantum Space's $1.2 billion headline price against just $24 million of projected 2026 revenue.]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:48:22 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/space-stock-valuation-screen/ https://stockwirex.com/education/space-stock-valuation-screen/
Netwealth director Sarah Jane Brennan paid $16.75 a share and the stock closed at $15.42 within weeks, a sharp reminder that insider buying on the ASX is a question to investigate, not proof a share price has bottomed.]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:22:28 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/insider-buying-asx-bottom-signal/ https://stockwirex.com/education/insider-buying-asx-bottom-signal/
About 90% of options trades have a market maker on the other side, and options dealer hedging can move a stock more than the original trade did.]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:11:51 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/options-dealer-hedging-gamma-exposure/ https://stockwirex.com/education/options-dealer-hedging-gamma-exposure/
GLP-1 compounding in Australia ended on 1 October 2024 after the TGA narrowed the pharmacist exemption. The US shut its version down by a different route, which gives five questions to test any rule-dependent revenue stream.]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:10:06 +1000 https://stockwirex.com/education/glp-1-compounding-australia-us-ended/ https://stockwirex.com/education/glp-1-compounding-australia-us-ended/