Craig Scott has traded and invested for almost his entire life, starting out in a year-long stock picking competition for school. After he had completed a double major in finance and accounting, Craig built a career over several years as…
Options are one of the most versatile financial instruments available to investors today. Like any other investment vehicle, there are times when the use of options may be appropriate and times when one might be better served taking a position…
Scott Bauer, Founder and CEO of Prosper’s Options Trading Accelerator Goldman Sachs. JP Morgan. Bank of America. Morgan Stanley. All high powered firms whose traders have dominated the options market for years. Options trading has become so competitive that…
Trading should be boring… patiently waiting for only the best opportunities to profit using a disciplined methodology. A simple process to limit emotion can be applied to all transactions, long or short, holding for minutes or even for months. Employ…
Are you getting the most possible out of your stock portfolio? If you can’t answer that question with a 100% confident yes, you need to check out these 5 ways to get more income from your stock portfolio. Buy low:…
In the aftermath of each of the most recent bear markets, we all heard talk about how folks would need to postpone retirement to rebuild their nest eggs. Consider the following: An investor in their 40’s has been investing religiously…
Michael Halls-Moore has joined me for this week’s episode. Michael runs QuantStart.com, a well-known site by many algorithmic traders. Before diving into trading, Michael was a student of computational fluid dynamics and the co-founder of a tech startup, eventually becoming…
Emotionally driven decisions almost always result in the wrong action at the wrong time. However, traders who understand the underlying “why” causing the crowd to become emotional (and are on alert for the regular movements that “herding” causes) can optimize their…
Initiating a position and then watching the market immediately move in your favor can be very exhilarating. Just because the market is going your way, however, doesn’t mean there isn’t work to be done. Quite the contrary. Once you are…
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) hold $2.17 trillion in assets. Almost every investment style is represented. ETFs based on commodities’ prices may help investors hedge against inflation and round out their asset allocation. Commodities represent a range of resources, from Precious…
