By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 13 July 2026 An inverted hammer is a single bullish candle that forms after a fall in price. Its real body, the part between the open and the close, is small and sits at the bottom of the session’s range. Above it is a long upper shadow, at […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 24 July 2026 The hanging man candlestick is a bearish reversal candle that forms after an uptrend. It has a small real body, the part between the open and the close, at the top of the session’s range. Below it hangs a long lower shadow, at least twice […]
Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham: Summary, Key Ideas, and How to Apply Them Last updated: 6 September 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe Security Analysis, written by Benjamin Graham (with David Dodd) and first published in 1934, is the founding textbook of value investing: it teaches you to buy a security for less than its […]
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham: Summary, Key Ideas, and How to Apply Them Last updated: 28 July 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe The Intelligent Investor, written by Benjamin Graham and first published in 1949, is the most widely recommended book on value investing: it teaches you to buy a stock for less than […]
The Best Finance and Investment Books to Read (and Where to Start) Last updated: 12 July 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTe If you want the single best finance book to start with, read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor” (1949), because it teaches the two ideas the rest of the field is built on: margin […]