The Daily Dose: Questions For Stock Traders

Private Investment Funds For Wealthy Individuals: Hedge Funds use pooled capital from accredited investors in order to generate an active return. Hedge fund managers can employ a handful of different strategies with the goal of achieving high returns. The term "hedge fund" can be confusing because Hedging is actually the…

When Publicly Traded Companies Report Quarterly Earnings: Earnings Season is a period of time when the majority of publicly traded companies release their earnings reports. Generally speaking, each earnings season begins about 1-2 weeks after the end of each quarter. So companies will typically release their reports in early-mid January,…

A Bear Market is characterized by securities prices falling, anticipation of losses, and widespread pessimism. The typical causes of such pessimism is a weak or slowing economy, high unemployment rate, limited disposable income, reduced business profits, and/or tax rate changes. Overall, there is a major drop in investor confidence for…

The Fundamentals of Options Trading: Options are a type of derivative security, meaning their price is directly linked to the price of an underlying security (typically a stock or index). In options trading, there are two basic types of contracts known as Calls and Puts. Calls increase in value as…

Stocks vs. Bonds - Diversifying Your Portfolio: Bonds are essentially debt obligations issued by governments and corporations in order to finance new projects. Governments, for example, issue bonds in order to fund the construction of new roads, schools, or other critical infrastructure. Corporations, for example, issue bonds in order to…

Cyber Monday - The Biggest E-Commerce Day of the Year: Cyber Monday is the online equivalent to Black Friday, which marks the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. The marketing term 'Cyber Monday' was coined in 2005 upon discovery that historically the Monday after Thanksgiving experiences a spike in…

The Impact of Tariffs and Quotas on Global Trade: A Tariff is essentially a tax on a particular class of imported goods. Governments generally impose tariffs in an effort to reduce imports into their country, protect domestic production, and increase jobs. Prior to 1915, tariffs were the primary source of…

How to Become a Successful Trader → Rule #1: Don't Chase Alerts A stock trading service that sends out alerts sounds great on paper. All you have to do is follow an expert into each trade he or she takes and you'll make bank, right? Wrong. What ends up happening in…

The High Frequency Trading Debate - Take a Side: High Frequency Trading (HFT) is a form of algorithmic trading characterized by the use of powerful computers, large volumes of shares, and fast execution speeds. We're talking about millions of shares being bought and sold within mere seconds/milliseconds. According to some…