Commodity ETFs are constructed for their holdings to track the price action of the underlying energy, metals, or food item commodities they represent like gold, silver, oil, natural gas, corn or others. These types of exchange traded funds can also hold a diversified basket of commodities to create a tracking index. It’s not practical for […]
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A synthetic share of a stock is created by buying and selling stock options to simulate an options play that moves the same way that holding shares in the stock would move without the same amount of capital needed to buy the same amount of shares. A synthetic long stock position is created by buying
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A diagonal spread options play is a modified calendar spread that is built with different strike prices. It is opened by entering into a long and short position in two options of the same type at the same time. An option trader can use two call options or two put options but they must have
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This is a guest post from Gavin McMaster @OptiontradinIQ Searching for income has become a challenge. Bonds have been a traditional conservative income stream for decades. Yet, bond yields are now trading at historic lows. This has led some investors and advisors to jump into lower credit “junk” bonds simply to generate any income –
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The jade lizard is an option play that is created by opening a bearish vertical spread using call options and adding a put option sold at a strike price lower than the call spread strike prices. Using one underlying stock with the same expiration date, the jade lizard strategy buys a call option at one
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Call options are in the money when the underlying stock that it is written on has a price higher than a the call option strike price. A call option can be used to call away a stock at the price of the strike with the profits being how much higher the stock was trading at
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Most traders that are profitable over the long term possess a distinct set of trading skills that separate them from the majority of traders that do not make money. Consistent success is a result of a systematic process that possesses an edge over the competition. Here are 10 trading skills that I have seen in
A list of the current most shorted stocks can be a great place to start for potential deep dip value buys. Stocks with the highest short interest across all major U.S. stock exchanges is a good list to watch for potential huge bounces when there are short covering fueled rallies. The below companies have the highest
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Option traders who believe the price of an underlying asset will not change significantly in the near future can sell short combinations of options that have different directional biases and strike prices. A short strangle is an option play designed to bet on a small move in either direction for an underlying stock in a
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Traders who strongly believe the price of an underlying asset will change significantly in the near future but are unsure about the direction of the move can trade combinations of options that have different directional bias and strike prices. A long strangle is an option play designed to bet on a big move in either
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The delta of a stock is always 1.00 because delta is the variance of movement of a stock versus an option contract. The delta of an option is the magnitude of the move in the underlier that the option will capture currently based on the odds of the option expiring in-the-money. Delta quantifies the amount
The post is a sample of a chapter from my book The Ultimate Guide to Chart Patterns. Bullish Flag Pattern Chart Facts: The bullish flag is a continuation pattern of the previous uptrend. A bullish flag chart pattern occurs after an uptrend out of a previous price base. The ‘pole’ is represented by the previous
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Trending markets are ones that go in one primary direction for a sustained period of time. Here are the signals for an up trending market: The chart makes higher highs and higher lows. Price is trending above the moving average of the time frame being analyzed. Price is near all-time highs or 52-week highs. The
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Since we all have limited time, energy and resources every decision we make comes with a trade off. Even procrastinating, making no decision and doing nothing is a trade off versus potential action and opportunities. Making any choice changes the course of our life and collapses potential paths to your future. At any one time
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“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently-they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who
The current Charlie Munger new worth in 2021 is $2.2 billion and he currently ranks #1580 on Forbes Billionaires list. Charlie Munger at 97, remains the famed vice chairman of Berkshire-Hathaway and partner of Warren Buffett for their annual shareholder meetings each year. Charlie worked with Warren in Buffet’s grandfather’s grocery store in Omaha, Nebraska
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This is a guest post by @PattensWizard on Twitter. Technical analysis is the study of prices over time and the analysis of chart patterns formed by price movements. So, a relevant question that often traders ponder is “What timeframe should I choose?” Another question that traders also frequently ask is “Why does trading timeframe matter?”
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The law of small numbers is a fallacy that leads people to believe that a small sample size of data will be enough to resemble the normal data of the whole and determine the probabilities of future sample sizes. In trading this error would lead someone to backtest one year’s worth of price action signals
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“A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.” – Seth Klarman For investors the margin of safety is the variance between the fundamental value of the underlying company of