What’s up everyone? So finishing my second day trading here in California. This is my trading station. It’s pretty sweet. I’ve got my two laptops, my two external monitors. Those are hooked up with these little kind of brackets which are really sweet. Yesterday was an awesome day with $4,000 profit. Today is the day […]
The Chinese wall is made up of the formal and informal barriers within a company that limit the information shared between different divisions that might cause a conflict of interest. Example of a Chinese Wall For example, the wealth management division of a bank will not have access to the content of on-going mergers and […]
Commingling is the act of combining separate assets into one financial entity, of which the asset holders then own a proportional share. The most common example of commingling is in the case of mutual funds, where investors pool their personal resources into one shared fund that trades securities on their behalf according to an agreed-upon […]
The Chicago Board Options Exchange, or CBOE, is the world’s largest exchange for the trading of options contracts. The Chicago Board Options Exchange acts as a clearing house for options on a very large number of companies, indices and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The CBOE is also the owner of the CFE, which pioneered the volatility […]
CoinMarketGame is a cryptocurrency trading simulator that enables crypto traders to practice and learn the trading of altcoins. It was developed to follow the real oscillations of the cryptocurrency markets. As part of Coinimpress, a crypto media group, CoinMarketGame is a free platform that is easy to use. Since its launch, CoinMarketGame sole mission has […]
Painting the tape is a form of securities fraud where participants create a false appearance of trading activity for a security by buying and selling the security among themselves. Painting the tape can attempt to artificially increase or decrease the price of a security through coordinated trading, or merely give the impression of a high […]
Blue sky laws are state laws focused on preventing securities fraud. While blue sky laws vary from state to state, they generally require a high degree of disclosure for any securities traded in the state and for any broker-dealers operating in the state to be registered and regulated. Purpose of Blue Sky Laws Most state […]
A block trade or block order is a large order usually placed by a hedge fund or large institutional investor. Mechanics of a Block Trade While direct block trades between buyers and sellers do occasionally occur, most block trades take place using a specialist intermediary known as a block house. The block house has traders […]
In the money is a term from options trading used to describe an option that would create value, but not necessarily profit, if exercised. It is not necessarily profitable because a trader needs to account for the premium spent to purchase the option, which being in the money has no bearing on. It just means […]
What’s up everyone? All right, so today is the first day of trading from southern California. Yesterday was a travel day. I flew from JFK to LA, and the reason I drive all the way down to New York is because they have a direct flight from New York to LA, and they have Delta […]
