What’s up, everyone? All right. Here we are Tuesday morning. Ending the day up a thousand bucks. A thousand dollars a day keeps the job away. I’m happy with that, but you know what? I was up $2,000 and then I ended up giving back some of those gains. I actually went into the […]
Fixed income describes all the securities that are considered to be debt rather than equity. This means that fixed income securities provide no ownership of the issuing organization, but rather a right to a contracted payment structure for interest and principal payments, as well as collateral in the case of default and priority in the […]
To be a giant among giants is a rare achievement that few people can boast of. Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, runs the largest Hedge Fund in the world. Bridgewater Associates is a titan of the hedge fund industry, an industry already known for the jaw-dropping capitalizations of some of its biggest firms. With […]
A spinning top is a candlestick pattern used in technical analysis that indicates significant indecision on a trading day, and which can be a signal of a trend reversal when it occurs during an uptrend or a downtrend. A spinning top is formed when the real body of the candlestick (the opening and closing prices) […]
What’s up, everyone? All right, so here we are, Wednesday morning, third day of the week, and I’m finishing in the red. Max loss, max frustration, down 5700 bucks. Today’s a day where I took two trades and I lost on both of them. Only two trades, but boom, boom, two red trades, and […]
Direct access routing offers traders direct access to the market where the actual trades take place. Direct access routing is contrasted with using an online broker, where the broker acts as the middleman and places the order on behalf of the individual trader, usually bundled together with a number of different orders. Not only […]
ProRealTime is an intuitive charting software provider for online trading, automatic trading, financial news and technical analysis. With 17 years of experience, the Charting software: Pro Real Time has 628,416 users worldwide. Not only that. The company attracts over 150 new users every day and has made over 380,000 financial instruments available to its customers. […]
All right, good afternoon everybody. Well, a really great trade this morning on Apple. Found some momentum in the market after coming off a few days of being relatively choppy and not much follow through in the large gaps. But today Apple was breaking down to a significant level, along with a market weakness, […]
A convertible bond is a hybrid security that acts like a traditional bond until it is converted into equity in the issuing company according to the terms of the bond. Example of Convertible Bonds A company issues a $1,000 10-year bond paying 4% annual interest that can be converted into shares in the company at […]
Insider trading is the act of trading a security related to a public company using non-public information, such as information about a company that only employees of that company have access to. Insider trading is generally illegal, as it weakens the overall sense of trust and fairness that underpins the operations of modern capital markets. […]
