Trade Futures, Spreads and Options with Confidence.
If the Fed is one of the most influential voices in interest rate pricing, then how can interest rate markets move lower on the actual day that the Fed hiked rates? Futures and options have a time component that requires traders to think steps ahead, and you can see by the price action in S2Y futures leading up to the actual event that this hike had been…
What do you do when the dust settles, the smoke clears, and you’re left with middling markets? After quite a volatile May, June has seen the stock market bounce back (albeit slightly) and the US dollar cool off..
Many mathematicians start with the same, single assumption when they commence any probabilistic modeling: the probability of a market moving higher or lower on any given day is 50%. Though this may seem oversimplified…
When commodity prices take off in the short term people tend to fear long-term changes to their everyday lives, especially when it comes to one with such large implications downstream as crude oil does.
The wide world of options can open up an everyday trader’s portfolio to P/L fluctuations unseen in the outright world of shares and futures. You can take advantage of large moves higher while only putting up a small, set amount of capital by buying calls. You can make money from a particular market’s demise without the risk of going short by buying puts.
Most New Year’s resolutions are doomed from the start. You create too lofty a goal that must be accomplished in 365 days and usually commit too intensely in the first 30 and fall too easily back into bad habits by day 100.
Most New Year’s resolutions are doomed from the start. You create too lofty a goal that must be accomplished in 365 days and usually commit too intensely in the first 30 and fall too easily back into bad habits by day 100.
Standard deviations are as essential to measuring opportunity in markets as batting averages are to gauging talent in baseball – both stats find their way into almost all facets of these respective processes, knowingly or unknowingly.
Derivatives are a crowd-sourced predictive model. Thousands of people gathering on the bids and offers to voice their opinion on the future of an asset is essentially an efficient, real-time poll.
A crash in financial markets can be defined as a large fall in price in a short amount of time, but this definition leaves much to be desired for those looking to trade such an opportunity. What is a large fall from a historical data perspective? How often does this occur? Should you buy or sell?