When you first start exploring the stock market, the sheer volume of information can feel overwhelming. Complex charts filled with colored boxes and thin lines (candlesticks) often lead to what we ...

Stella Osoba is the Senior Editor of trading and investing at Investopedia. She co-founded and chaired Women in Technical Analysis. She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical ...

A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...