With another tax season now in the rear view mirror, one of the biggest problems that continues to effect trader's taxes is the wash sale rule. I see it happen every year without fail. A trader is expecting to report a loss for the year, however due to...
For more than 100 years, unless you were an industry insider or had connections to DeBeers, the prospect of investing in diamonds was completely out of reach. However, for the first time in history, diamond prices are no longer manipulated and are now a...
What does a crash look like? If you haven't seen one before, the precious metals showed us one between Monday, April 12 and Friday, April 15 of this year. Gold lost over $260 at its worst point, with a 16% drop in just over two days. Silver fared worse,...
Ever since Charles Dow developed the Dow Industrial average in 1880, traders have been using the tools of technical analysis to capture - and profit from - predictable price changes in stocks. There's nothing strange in this. Everyone who trades, even...
rich against US 30's, their primary anchor: Yes they have been richer but this will do because US 30's are also rich. Their primary anchor is 10's: So what is there in global fixed income to buy that is not rich? Not much. All I have is US 5's: What...
I'm a private trader and mother of two great "tween" girls. Trading has a great amount of flexibility, scope for creativity and unlimited rewards totally free of the popular glass ceiling of gender inequality. Along my travels I've found women traders...
More than any other high frequency topic (HFT) topic, this one irritates the anti-HFT crowd the most. The market is a gathering place - be it physical or digital - where buyers and sellers of thousands of financial products meet to do business. It is...
Traders of individual stocks have a wide variety of technical indicators that rely on price and volume to help them time their trades. These indicators track such things as a stock's momentum, trend, or volatility. Historically, sentiment indicators have...
Futures traders might find it helpful to think outside of the box when it comes to margin. Although, doing so, will mean straying from the comfort of using black and white figures by crossing into the ambiguity of option trading. Unlike futures trading...
As every options trader knows premium decay can surprise the holder of long puts and calls. The process of time decay is even faster for weekly options. Weekly options, decay rapidly, but this does not need to be a detriment if the trader is aware of the...