Dec 6, 2009 | Option Trading Basics
All center fielders are baseball players but not all baseball players are center fielders. In much the same way, stock options are derivatives but not all derivatives are stock options. A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is “derived” from...
Nov 21, 2009 | Investment Basics
So you have a money market account and invest in a money market fund. You feel that your money is safe and you can access it quickly but the interest rate is nothing to write home about. That’s about all most of us know about these money market instruments so as...
Sep 5, 2009 | Investment Basics
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article pertaining to The Yield Curve which describes a graph of the interest rates of short, intermediate and long term treasury debt securities. This sparked dozens of questions and comments from our readers on this subject so I thought...
Aug 22, 2009 | Options Trade Execution
When instructing our online discount broker as to the actions we want taken, we submit a customer order. These orders can take several different forms depending on our investment strategies and objectives. We can buy or sell; request a specific price or simply the...
Aug 8, 2009 | Technical Analysis
Chapter 8 in Cashing in on Covered Calls is devoted to technical analysis. This is a method of predicting future stock price movements based on observation of historical stock price movements. We use it to identify trends and for our buy/sell decisions. The...
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