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Pairs Trading

A Beginners Guide to Pairs Trading

  Most of the time when we make a trade, we’re making a pretty specific bet. We buy Apple because we think Apple is going up for whatever reason. It’s a simple bet with one way to win: the price has to go up.  With pairs trading, you’re combining two separate bets into one. Let […]

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Are Penny Stocks a Good Long-Term Investment

Are Penny Stocks a Good Long-Term Investment?

  Penny stocks have been around for a long time but are penny stocks a good long-term investment? In the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”, con artist Jordan Belford gets his start selling worthless stocks to unsuspecting retirees. Often sold on promises of large potential gains, most of these equities were known as ‘dirt […]

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Investment factors

A Beginners Guide to Investment Factors

  Investment factors are a set of quantitative criteria used to explain investment returns. The idea is that some baskets of securities that have similar criteria might deliver superior risk-adjusted returns.  At its simplest, an investment factor is a characteristic of a security that is associated with superior risk-adjusted returns. That could be a low […]

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How to Find Stocks

How to Find Stocks in an Exploding Theme

  Are you bullish on a idea or industry? Maybe you see the tastes of a specific demographic changing before Wall Street can see it. Or perhaps real estate in your area is booming, but the boom isn’t showing up in your regional homebuilder’s stock price. All of us have unique vantage points that allow […]

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SPAC Stocks

Beginners Guide to SPAC Stocks

  What is a SPAC? SPAC stocks is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company. They’re essentially shell companies that raise money, go public, then use the funds to buy a company and bring it public. You can think of them as publicly-traded venture capital firms that only ever make one investment with a specific deadline to […]

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