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…
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How High Will Crude Oil Prices Go?
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 Power of the Call Option
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.
Three Easy Ways to Buy Gold and Silver
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.
Learning Futures with Low Risk and Sound Strategy
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.
How to Set Scalping Levels
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.
Can Derivatives Predict the Future of Markets?
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.
What is a Market Crash and How Can You Trade It?
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?
Is Crypto a Better Investment Than Stock?
The everyday person’s approach to investing has been completely overhauled in the last year. Gone are the days of 70/30 stock-bond funds touting plain, passive asset allocations. Increased access to both alternative markets and greater education has pushed many investors to more innovative products as well as nonstock markets like crypto; but, is this a good thing?
Forex Trading: How to Get Started
The foreign exchange market can be as vast as that of equities. With more than 150 currencies in circulation, there are enough single names to fill almost two Nasdaq indexes worth of components.