When we are trying to learn a new skill, we usually try to copy the actions of someone who is already successful in that field. When it comes to making money in the markets, we can easily see that the institutional traders are the big winners on a consistent basis.
There is a lot of talk about Apple's stock in the markets lately. The stock has an enormous market cap and is a large part of many portfolios, either directly or indirectly as a part of a mutual fund
You have your eye on a stock, a very high-valued stock like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ). You believe that this stock, despite its high price, continues to have tremendous upside potential and could easily make it to $700 soon.
Over the past 10 ? 12 years, the stock market has been in a big sideways range. The average retail investor who has parked his or her money in the stock market has not seen long term capital appreciation over that period.
Most people don’t like to mix the words "trading" and "gambling."
One infrequently discussed topic important to understand in becoming familiar with the mechanics of learning to trade options is that of the various settlement mechanisms.
Should someone who has been trading for months or years be able to out-trade someone who is brand new to this endeavor?
In this episode, Mark is joined by Scot Warren, Senior Managing Director of Equity Index Products at CME Group
Perhaps the most easily understood of the options price influences is the price of the underlying.
As a Chartered Market Technician, I get a lot of questions about technical indicators and how they work.
You have two choices during these challenging times. One is to give into fear and take no action or worse yet, take ill-informed action. Your other choice is to rise above the fear, rise above the risk, observe the reality of what is happening, and understand that with the most challenging times come the most outstanding opportunities.
In an attempt to understand the complexities of the world they observed in daily life, ancient Babylonian philosophers considered all things to be constituted of one or more of the four classical elements of: earth, air, water, and fire.