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Rally

A rally is a period during which prices in the financial markets go up. Rallies tend to be of shorter duration-- days, weeks or months -- than bull markets, which can last for years.

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Resistance level

Resistance level is a key concept in Technical Analysis that is very helpful in determining the right moment to sell in an uptrend or to sell short in a downtrend.

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Reverse Head and Shoulders Formation

The reverse head and shoulders formation (also known as inverse H&S formation) is one of the most popular and reliable formations used in technical analysis. As the name suggests, it has a shape similar to the head and shoulder. This head and shoulders bottom pattern usually signals a change in price trend. When it occurs the security is likely to move against the previous downtrend.

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RSI

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is one of the most popular technical indicators that can help you determine overbought and oversold price levels as well as generate buy and sell signals.  

RSI was developed by J. Welles Wilder, Jr. and published in a 1978 book, New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems, and in Commodities magazine (now Futures magazine) in the June 1978 issue. It is a momentum oscillator and as such it measures the rate of change of a given security’s price. Since it is also a bounded oscillator, it allows to spot overbought and oversold areas on the price chart.

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