In such volatile times there will always be opportunities to make a profit and plenty of opportunities to lose more.One industry that has been thriving is the spread betting industry. Whilst there is currently a ban on shorting financial stocks, investors are still enjoying the ability to buy and sell indices like the FTSE 100, [...]
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Humans are hard wired in life to succeed and by definition we measure success by successful achievements. When people try their hand at stock market trading they try use the same measurement and inevitably become stuck in a loop of jumping from system to system tweaking this and that and eventually giving up. [...]
Off-floor trader Rick Redmont gained his first experience trading stocks as a college student during the bull market of 1961. “I had $10,000, which turned into $20,000. I followed the Chartcraft (Inc.) point and figure book-but it didn’t really matter what you bought. The only thing that made you mad was if your friend’s stock [...]
Now, let’s consider stock and stock options for a moment. Consider the ubiquitous XYZ Corp., currently trading at $95 per share on 2/1/03. If you pay $4 per share for a March call on 100 shares of XYZ at the $100 strike price, you have acquired the right to buy 100 shares of XYZ for [...]
Options are one of the oldest trading vehicles man has ever used. Around a 1000 B.C Aristotle Thales predicted by the stars that there would be a bumper olive harvest and bought options on the use of olive presses.
When the harvest did in fact prove to be a great harvest Thales was able to rent [...]
Options are one of the oldest trading vehicles man has ever used. Around a 1000 B.C Aristotle Thales predicted by the stars that there would be a bumper olive harvest and bought options on the use of olive presses.
When the harvest did in fact prove to be a great harvest Thales was able to rent [...]
Any time you read anything about options, it is incumbent upon the author to provide a brief introduction. This article is no exception.
Let’s suppose you are house shopping, but are waiting to hear whether or not the job you are hoping for is actually going to be offered. You find the perfect house, but you [...]
Owning stock has only two, maybe three, possibilities. The stock goes up. Or the stock goes down. Or, as a third possibility, it does a little of both. If you buy a stock, all you want it to do is go up.
If you sell a stock short or close a position (or consider buying it [...]