The issue of direct access is an important one and it becomes more important the more short term your trading is. The market can change from a state of seeming paralysis to one of shocking volatility and activity in a flash. The length of time it takes between you deciding to enter an order and [...]
I thought such an eye-catching title would be appropriate for an article on risk management. Often times, beginning traders forget the fundamentals of proper trading in their quest for instant riches in the stock market. Those of us who have been trading for some time now are fully aware of the danger in that type [...]
You most certainly have seen the ads and heard the promoters touting the incredible benefits of offshore asset protection: Privacy, anonymity – and the big one – no taxes ever.
But there is a wrinkle in all their chatter. Uncle Sam taxes U. S. citizens on their worldwide income. So in another one of those [...]
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There are many options you can use to make money in the forex market. This discussion makes sure that you are considering all your options when looking at Forex Trading as a money making opportunity. After all, the main purpose of Forex Trading is to make money.
There are so many [...]
As a beginning stock market trader, I frequently visited an unpleasant place called Loss Vegas. It was teeming with would be investors and traders with grand aspirations of making a killing in the stock market. Differing life experiences, bank account balances, and strategies separated them but they were all bound by the possibilities of great [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn’t lose. Well we can’t. I love options spreads so much I realized something very important. We can buy a spread that has a [...]
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 [...]