The Short-Term Trading Advantage – Futures Contracts for Commodities, Currencies, Treasuries, and Stock Market Indices – Originally used for agricultural commodities to manage future price risk and to ensure an orderly marketplace, the commodity Futures market has since expanded to include energy and precious metals. Financial Futures came into being in the early 1970’s, and, […]
Basic Characteristics – Options Terminology and Metrics – We’ll be looking at Options on Stocks, ETFs, and Indexes (the underlying securities) primarily because they are the most popular and the easiest to understand and put into your Wealth Building Plan. Futures have options and can be traded as a replacement for the actual Futures contract, […]
When Long-Term Wealth Building Matters Portfolio management refers, in the generic sense, to managing whatever money you have available for that purpose; so, any assets or trading vehicles you have in your account would qualify to be included in the definition. However, that’s too general a concept for what I want to do in creating […]
Day Trading Stocks & Options – The original definition and practice of Day Trading was specific to the very active trading of Stocks for minuscule gains on multiple trades throughout the day. With the intensity involved and the unfortunate experiences of the retail trader in the early days when the concept was introduced, Day Trading […]
The More You Know…. Investing or trading without the knowledge of how the financial markets work and, in fact, what the risks are that lurk behind every investable opportunity will leave you at the mercy of the market and those who don’t have your best interest at heart, no matter how sincere they look and […]
