Trade Futures, Spreads and Options with Confidence.
Are you interested in making money with stock options? If so, you’re not alone. Traders from around the globe look to stock options to generate cash flows, sustain an income, and hedge risk. In this blog article, we’ll cover the basics of stock options and how they can help you achieve your financial goals. Stock… Read more.
Being able to enter and exit the market efficiently is vital to sustaining long-term profitability. To achieve this goal, active futures traders use a variety of order types. Among the most popular varieties are market, limit, and stop orders. Read on to learn more about the difference between market order and limit order functionalities. What… Read more.
The U.S. equities markets are vast and feature a wide array of unique opportunities. Regardless of your expertise, there’s a sector, mutual fund, individual stock, or ETF well suited for your skillset. That’s one reason 55 percent of American adults participate in the NYSE, NASDAQ, or OTC equities market. If you’re asking, “How do I… Read more.
When it comes to making money in the world’s equities markets, there are two strategies: stock trading and stock investing. Each has a unique functionality and a distinct collection of pros and cons. Read on to learn more about the stock trading vs. investing dichotomy and which may be best suited for your financial objectives.… Read more.
The world’s equities markets are deep and diverse, each filled with countless opportunities. Among these venues is the leader of the pack, the U.S. stock market. Featuring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ, and the over-the-counter (OTC) market. American stocks are worth more than $50 trillion (2021). What Is a Zero-Commission Online Stockbroker? A… Read more.
Agriculture futures offer market participants a vast array of hedging and speculative possibilities. Whether you’re trading Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) soybean, wheat, or live cattle futures, there’s always a deep, volatile market at your disposal. Some of the best opportunities for ag traders are in the corn futures market. Read on to quickly get up… Read more.
Understanding Japanese Yen Futures One of the world’s eight major currencies, the Japanese yen (JPY) is viewed as a mainstay of global finance. The Bank of International Settlements Triennial Survey (2019)[1] has the yen involved in US$1.1 billion in average daily turnover on the over-the-counter (OTC) currency markets. This lofty valuation earned the JPY a… Read more.
In the live futures markets, a trader has two basic choices: buy or sell. When you buy a futures contract, you are “going long” the market in the hopes that prices will rise. For most people, this is the traditional, intuitive mode of capital investment. But what does it mean to short a futures contract?… Read more.
A futures contract is a highly leveraged financial derivatives product. And, while the added leverage boosts the trader’s capital efficiency, it can also lead to exorbitant losses. Two ways that astute traders manage their use of futures leverage are with the margin to equity ratio (ME) and the margin equity percentage. What is margin equity… Read more.
Stocks, forex pairs, cryptocurrencies, and futures contracts provide active traders countless opportunities. Given the diversity of alternatives, one question rises above the rest: Which market should I trade? Let’s take a look at two of the most popular assets out there—stocks and futures—and the reasons for trading each. Why trade futures? A futures contract is… Read more.