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Morning Market Briefing – Cry Havoc
Morning Market Briefing Morning Market Briefing - Cry Havoc March 5, 2020 Have you seen our live shows? Join us for "The Trend" each market morning at 9:00AM EST, and "Beyond [...]
Buying Options on Expiration Day
By Mike Tibbits, YouCanTrade Trading options gives you the right to buy or sell the underlying security for a specific price before the option expires. The closer an option gets to its expiration day, however, the faster it loses value. [...]
Bull Traps, Bear Traps, and Short Squeezes
Bull Traps, Bear Traps and Short Squeezes Alex Dixon, YouCanTrade Bull traps, bear traps and short squeezes happen in the markets often enough that they have been given names. These three things are similar in how they accelerate price movement [...]
Morning Market Briefing – Short Term Support
Morning Market Briefing Morning Market Briefing - Short Term Support February 22, 2020 Have you seen our live shows? Join us for "The Trend" each market morning at 9:00AM EST, and [...]
The Fear Of Losing
By: Alex Dixon, YouCanTrade Everyone has some level of risk if they are trading; even if they are not currently in a position, they risk missing out on potential profits. These risks spark a variety of fears, but there [...]
Fear of Missing Out
The Fear of Missing Out Alex Dixon, YouCanTrade Everyone has some level of risk if they are trading. These risks spark fears, but there are ways to combat them. There are four common risks which invoke fear while trading: fear [...]
Stocks vs. Bonds
By Alex Dixon, YouCanTrade While stocks and bonds are often mentioned in the same breath, they are quite different. A stock is a specified portion of a company issued in shares (a certain percentage of ownership of a company) while [...]
How Futures Work and Why They are Leveraged so Much
By Alex Dixon, YouCanTrade Content Specialist What are futures? Futures are contracts that lock in future delivery of a commodity or a security at today’s price. In a futures market, participants buy and sell commodity and futures contracts for delivery [...]
The Basics of Selling Options
By Mike Tibbits, YouCanTrade Content Specialist Understand the risks of being an options seller There are two ways to sell options both with their own risks. You can either sell call options or sell put options. Before you sell either [...]
Why Does the Stock Market Exist?
By Michael Tibbits, YouCanTrade Content Specialist To help companies raise capital The main reason the stock market exists is to help companies raise capital as an alternative to borrowing funds. If we break it down, there are two ways a [...]