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Saturday, March 31, 2007

What are Barrier Options?

Barrier options are a type of exotic options, in which the payoff demands reaching or crossing of a barrier (predetermined price) by the underlying product. They include call options and put options, and are similar to common options in many respects. Barrier options become active/inactive when the underlying product crosses the barrier. Read More

Friday, March 30, 2007

History of Futures Trading

The trading of commodities has begun centuries ago, with the first signs of civilization. The modern type of futures trading marked its presence in 18th, according to some 17th, century in Japan and in Holland or grains such as rice and wheat. Read More

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Difference between Spot and Futures Forex Trading

Spot trading and futures trading are the most important forex trading types. They are virtually opposite to one another. Spot forex trading is the ‘on the spot’ trading and futures forex trading is the contract for trading the currency in somewhere near future. In simple, spot trades are done for actual currency deliveries usually with in two days and futures traders are done for a delivery/purchase usually after 3 months. Read More

Monday, March 26, 2007

Weekly Stock Market Information Newsletter, March 26

The Week Ahead: As the markets approach the possibility of another market peak, much attention this week will be paid to a broad list of economic reports starting with Monday's new home sales for February. Tuesday brings the March consumer confidence index. Wednesday, the durable goods report and weekly crude oil and gasoline inventories come out. Thursday, the final 4th quarter GDP, 4th quarter corporate profits report, and weekly jobless claims are released. The week concludes with personal income and spending numbers along with the construction spending for February. Read More

What is a Margin Call or Maintenance Call?

Margin calls - also known as maintenance calls, fed calls and house calls, are brokers’ calls to deposit more money to a trader’s margin account or to sell off the a few equities/assets that the trader own. Margin calls are generated by brokers under some specific situations when a trader’s equity balance in his/her account falls shorter to the margin requirement of the brokerage firm. Read More

Saturday, March 24, 2007

What is Ask and Bid Trading?

Ask and Bid is the trading procedure followed in Over-The-Counter markets like OTCBB and Pink Sheet markets. It contradicts the auction bid trading method followed by traditional stock markets. Ask and bid trading method allows bargaining and thus can favor both the trader and the market maker. Read More

Friday, March 23, 2007

What is Value Investing?

Value investing is one another trading strategy used by stock traders to profit from stock markets. In value investing, the trader selects stock having strong fundamental merits such as good past earnings, book value, dividends and cash flow. Read More

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Types of Stock Charts

A stock chart is a 2D method of representation of upward/downward trends for a particular stock or stock market. There are mainly three types of stock charts as high-low-close charts, open-high-low-close charts and candlestick stock chats. Read More

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Day Trading Products Available

Day traders can trade a variety of different products from various markets trading stocks, options, futures, forex currencies etc. But apart from these traditional products there are many derivates of these products are also available. Below is a brief summery of various types of products available for day trading. Read More

Monday, March 19, 2007

Weekly Market Review Letter March 19 , 2007

The Week Ahead: Much of the focus this week will be on the Tuesday and Wednesday Federal Reserve meeting which will determine interest rate policy over the near term. With the latest up-tick in consumer inflation combined with other conflicting inflation signals like the weak housing sector, the Fed will probably keep interest rates steady. Other noteworthy reports include Wednesday's leading economic indicators for February and Thursday's existing home sales for the same month. Read More

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Features of a Good Forex Charting Software

As all you may know, the compatibility of forex software depends on the charting information it provides, the advancements in triggers and alerts tools and easy in delivering market news. This blog will concentrate on the charting capabilities of a good forex currency trading software. Read More

Friday, March 16, 2007

Using of Options Greeks to Trade Options

As discussed earlier, options Greeks provides useful (in fact most import) information about options. Most options trading systems available today provides normalized values for these Greeks. Normalized Greeks are values that are normalized to dollars by multiplying with the contract multiplier (usually 100). Read More

Thursday, March 15, 2007

What are Options Greeks?

Options Greeks are characters derived using strict mathematical formulae for understanding/predicting price changes of individual or group of options. They are know as Greeks because they are represented in Greek letters, Delta (d), Gamma (?), Vega, Theta (?) and Rho (P). Each option Greek uses different formula and provides different information. Read More

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Paper Trading Futures – A Guide

As discussed earlier, paper trading is the trading without real money. Unlike other trading fields, futures and commodity paper trading require special attention because of the diversity of markets. Read More

What is a Market Maker?

A market maker is a broker dealer or bank, who is always ready to buy and sell stocks from and to traders respectively. By doing so they make the market alive for all traders; other wise you have to find a buyer yourself if you want to sell a stock. Although the role of market marker is to increase the liquidity of every market, their practices may differ with various markets. Read More

Monday, March 12, 2007

Weekly Stock Market Letter March 12, 2007

The Week Ahead: The unemployment rate dropped to 4.5% lifting the spirits of some nervous bulls as the markets recovered from a late February collapse, but the 97,000 jobs created are not enough to offset the 150,000 jobs needed for new workers each month. Economic reports to watch this week are the retail sales figures and business inventories release on Tuesday, and crude oil and gasoline inventories on Wednesday. Later this week, Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI numbers will provide a measure of inflation in the economy. Read More

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Calculating Profit and Loss in Forex Currency Trading

Forex currency market is not as volatile as stock markets. Online Currency trading market fluctuates mainly with global and regional changes such as natural calamities, leadership changes of nation etc. It is quite common that increasing or decreasing of value of one currency, such as US dollar or Euro, triggers a cycle of events affecting value of most other currencies. Read More

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Finding Stock Market Trends

Easy and accuracy in finding stock market trends is the key factor that differentiate a successful trader from a common trader. Although there are a number of trading systems available in market with lot of indicators, it is ultimately our brain that must take decisions. Read More

Thursday, March 8, 2007

What are Technical Indicators or Technicals?

Technical indicators or technicals are special mathematical formulas used for analyzing and predicting market trends. They are used extensively by short-term traders like day traders and swing traders to find right stocks to trade. Read More

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Problems with OTCBB & Pink Sheet Stocks?

Although both OTCBB and Pink Sheet stocks include stocks of really good companies trying to make their listings in major stock markets, are also have stocks of really bad companies delisted from major markets and on the verge of bankruptcy. Below are some problems in trading OTC stocks. Read More

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Difference Between OTCBB and Pink Sheet Stocks?

Both OTCBB and Pink Sheet markets are used to trade stocks usually of small companies. Although both OTCBB and Pink Sheet stocks are traded Over-the-Counter (OTC), both markets differ in many aspects. Read More

Monday, March 5, 2007

Stock Market Newsletter, March 05 2007

The Week Ahead: The steep decline in the major market averages marked the worst week in 4 years and has ushered in a new season of high volatility. If the public mood sours, the likelihood of recession increases. The 4th quarter productivity and cost numbers along with January factory orders are due out Tuesday. The Fed beige book of economic activity is released Wednesday while the weekly jobless claims figures are out on Thursday. The week will end with a closely watched February employment report combined with the wholesale and international trade numbers for January. Read More

Sunday, March 4, 2007

How to use a Currency Day Trading System?

All forex currency traders need a trading system. But for day traders the currency trading systems are more importance, can be considered as Oxygen for existing. Currency day traders cannot can use any software; the software they choose must fulfill all their trading requirements and strategies. Here are some tips for using a good forex day trading system.... Read More

Thursday, March 1, 2007

What is Bottom-Up Investing?

Bottom-Up investing is a trading approach which contradict bottom-down investing approach. In bottom-up investing approach the trader chooses company stocks based on merits of companies/stocks not of the sectors/industry. Read More

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