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Getting to Know Your Equities Account
Rules every stock or options trader should know about their account before placing their first trade It’s important to know the differences between cash accounts and margin accounts. Both are equities accounts where you can trade stock or stock options, [...]
What You Need to Know About Covid-19 and Options/Stock Trading
I recently returned from New York for the NYC Traders Expo and Covid-19 (Coronavirus) was on the mind of all there. As I looked around, I saw people wearing masks, people hoarding hand sanitizer and saw one person wrapped in [...]
Revenge of the Trades
Have you ever lost big? Did you think about placing a bigger, riskier trade to off-set the loss? You probably thought to yourself “if this works, I’ll make back more than I lost.” With all of the sudden drops in [...]
Why Trade Options?
Maybe you have heard about trading options and were cautioned to stay away because they are too risky. While it may be true options trading is not suitable for everyone – options can be a valuable tool in a trader’s [...]
What is Yield Curve Inversion and What does it Mean
By Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology: The Fifth Insight We have all heard it – “As the yield curve slips towards inversion, the recession warning light blinks red—again.” But, do we all know what this means? In order to understand the effect [...]
Learning How to Learn
By Matt Hensley, Two Roads Trading For many of us, learning how to trade may be the first truly new skill or concept we’ve learned in many years. After school and moving into a career, we usually don’t have time [...]
Riding Out Geopolitical Risk
By Brian Benson, On Course with Options In my recent blog post, “Selling Options On Oil”, I made mention of “geopolitical risk” in oil markets. This is probably a term that we’ve all been hearing a little too much [...]
Five Myths about Options Trading and Stock Trading
By: Neil Szczepanski, Tradeology: The Fifth Insight Myth #1 – Options trading is very risky While trading options does carry risk, options can be used in a defined risk strategy. This is when you limit your upside but also [...]
Selling Options On Oil
By Brian Benson, On Course with Options Why Trade Oil? The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures contract (ticker CL) represents a huge market with great liquidity. Liquidity is an important consideration when picking a market to trade because [...]
Three Steps to Trading a New Strategy
By Matt Hensley, Two Roads Trading For a trader, there's nothing more exciting than finishing up a book, coming home from a conference or watching a video and coming away with a new strategy, especially, one with good historical [...]