Author: Trader Planet

Over the past week, we have seen the failure of Silicon Valley Bank ($SIVB), Signature Bank ($SBNY) and Silvergate Bank. Yesterday, Switzerland’s Credit Suisse ($CS) added concerns to major bank contagion when it sunk to 52-week...

p>An Analysis on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank ($SIVB) and Signature Bank ($SBNY) Fourteen and a half years ago, Lehman Brothers failed and triggered the greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression. During...

The U.S. Dollar is the world reserve currency. Being the world reserve currency brings a variety of economic benefits to the US dollar. For example, the widespread acceptance of the dollar as an international medium of exchange...

A heat map is a visual representation of the movement of assets or prices in an organized manner. It helps traders gain insight into trends and comparative strength and weakness quickly, by allowing them to see changes in market...

International Seaway ($INSW) is an international logistics company specializing in freight forwarding, warehousing and finance. Founded in 2001 by its current CEO and Chairman Mr. John Matthews, $INSW has quickly become one of...

Professional traders use options as risk management instruments. This has been the case since the development of Options trading in the 1970’s. To effectively manage risk traders create risk/reward scenarios using a combination...

Carvana ($CVNA) is an ecommerce company established in 2013 by Ernest Garcia III. The company offers consumers a chance to enter the automotive market with their online used car buying and selling services. They also provide...

Recently, when grocery shopping, I was confronted by one of the great horrors of inflation. The price of one of my beloved delicacies, cheesecake, had risen once again from $10.99 to $11.99 per cake. Pre-pandemic this exact same...

NVIDIA is a technology company focused on providing powerful visual computing solutions, founded in 1993 by two “technology gurus”, Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem. The company  made a name for itself with its chip design and...

Fundamental analysis is a method commonly used by stock market investors to analyze the intrinsic value of a security. This involves closely studying the financials of a company and using that information to evaluate its worth,...