Shorting Stocks Explained

When the market is falling, investors sell short a stock with the goal of profiting from the fall in the price of that stock. Many beginning investors get confused when they realize that it is possible to make money when the stock falls in price. In practice, shorting a stock is as easy as buying stocks once you get hang of it.

LEAP Options

Great Britain was finding it difficult to stay within the tight exchange rate band set by the European Monetary Union (EMU) in the early’90s. One person who made history with options was George Soros who is famously known as the man who broke the Bank of England.

What is Autotrading?

Many hedge funds and other entities that manage money through forex trading use some form of autotrading in their daily activities. Autotrading is common in the currency trading.

Multiple Timeframe Trading

Have you ever traded multiple timeframes? No, then let me explain what multiple timeframe trading is. In multiple timeframe trading, a trader first looks at a longer timeframe like a monthly or weekly chart to determine the overall direction of the trend. Multiple time frame trading is a trading method used extensively by forex traders. It involves the use of multiple timeframes.

Fibonacci And Pivot Point Trading (Part I)

Some traders are diehard fans of the Fibonacci and pivot point trading. The use of Fibonacci retracement levels and pivot points are often considered by their adherents as complete, self contained trading strategies.

S&P Futures Explained (Part III)

The monthly identifiers for the E-mini S&P futures contracts are H for March, M for June, U for September and Z for December. The E-mini S&P futures contract trade almost 24 hours per day with a 30 minute maintenance break in trading from 4:30 to 5:00 PM daily.

S&P Futures Explained (Part II)

S&P futures contracts are valued in ticks worth 0.1 index points or $25. Regular trading hours for S&P futures contracts are from 8:30 A.M to 3:15 PM. S&P futures contracts are another example of how 24 hours a day trading enables traders to respond to economic news releases in pre-market and after-market sessions.

S&P 500 Futures (Part I)

S&P Futures are the most popularly traded stock index futures contract. S&P futures contracts are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The S&P 500 stock index is a market valued weighted index of 500 large capitalized stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and Nasdaq National Market Executive System (NASDAQ).