What does the gold/silver ratio tell us, and is it as powerful an indicator as it seems? Gold versus Silver… Gold has been one of the best-performing assets in 2016. The metal mania at the beginning of the decade had…
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Diversification can play a key role not only in a stock portfolio but in fixed income portfolios as well. The whole idea is to avoid putting all your eggs in one basket. While an equity investor may buy various stocks…
Charlie Bathgate is a partner and the CEO of two companies; Flammarion and Sang Lucci. Flammarion is a hedge fund consisting primarily of automated traders and Sang Lucci is a trader education service. Charlie’s father was an options market maker,…
A trader who owns 10 calls controls 1,000 shares of stock. If exercised, those 10 calls turn into long 1,000 shares at the strike price. From this point, the trader will make or lose $1,000 for each $1 change in…
The stock market comeback in the last six months has added $2 trillion dollars in value to the U.S. markets. It’s certainly a big number. In fact, it can push the total capitalization here to almost $20 trillion. Here’s some simple math…
Gaps can be maddening. What can you do when a market opens up significantly higher or lower than where it closed? This riddle haunts traders, but there is a solution that could help you succeed. The interconnectedness of global…
Our guest this week, Rob, is a part of Discovery Trading Group and prefers to remain on a first name basis only, although some may know him as RG. Rob is an active futures traders and could be called a…
Breakouts can provide some of the most powerful market moves. Unfortunately, false breakouts are quite common and can lead stop-outs and whipsaw. When it comes to trading breakouts, there are two different methods one can potentially utilize to try to…
