Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975. He grew it into one of the world’s largest hedge funds by 2005. As of 2021 his hedge fund has over $160 billion in total assets under management. Ray Dalio is the 85th richest person in the world according to Forbes with a net worth of approximately $20.3 […]
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To make money in the markets you need to be trading as a business. Hobbies cost money, businesses make money. A business has a plan, a process, and a system. A business has customers that it sells products to for more than their cost. How a new trader approaches trading and the markets will determine
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A fixed mindset is the belief that the current abilities of intelligence and talent are fixed just the way they will always be for a person. It is the belief that people are born and destined to be at a certain ability level. A fixed mindset accepts their current performance and intelligence as fixed and
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First principles thinking inverts complex problems to look at each step in a process or system. It seeks to find errors as places for improvements by looking at the most basic principles that lead to success or failure. You must remove opinions, beliefs, assumptions, traditions, and predictions to see the essential core principles of a model
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This is a guest post by Howie Bick. Diving into momentum trades: why they move, and why they move fast. One of the ways people trade and look for ways to produce returns, is by looking for momentum throughout a market. Momentum when it comes to trading, means where there is an abundance of trades
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This is a guest post Jared Tendler. Your goal is to make money, but sometimes you find yourself losing money when you shouldn’t and leaving potential profits on the table. The question is why. You’ll first look to tighten your technical skills by analyzing your trades, tightening your rules, and learning new techniques. That’s
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Here is a top 20 list of the highest current most shorted stocks in the NASDAQ with the highest short interest in March 2021 based on the most recent information available. Be aware that the NASDAQ short interest is updated twice a month. Short interest data is reported on mid-month and end-of-month settlement dates. So it is
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Here is a top 20 list of the current most shorted stocks with the highest short interest as of the last update across all stock exchanges. Most exchanges do month end reporting. So it is constantly changing but is delayed in reporting. Be aware that the NASDAQ short interest is updated twice a month. Short interest
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The high tight flag pattern is one of the most bullish chart patterns that shows a strong trend followed by a trading range that could be setting up for another strong swing to the upside. It shows a chart is currently in a longer term uptrend. The high tight bull flag is a version of
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A cash secured put is created when a put option is sold to open at the same time as capital in an account is designated to buy the underlying stock at the strike price if the put expires in-the-money and is assigned to the option writer. A cash-secured put can be written as an at-the-money
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What is a leap? LEAPS is an acronym for options contracts called a Long Term Equity Anticipation Security. Leaps are derivatives with a long term expiration date that have prices that fluctuate along with the underlying stock or index it is written on. LEAPS have much longer time periods before expiration than traditional monthly options
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A naked put option calculator allows an option trader to key in the following data points: Stock Price. Put option strike price. Naked put option premium credit received. Days until expiration. Margin interest rate when needed. An option trader must consider whether the put option is a cash-secured put in a cash settled account or
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A covered call calculator allows an investor to enter in: Stock price Strike price Call premium Days until expiration Margin interest rate You can then see the analysis of the parameters of the covered call write: Cost of the shares. Credit received from selling call options. Total capital required for the option play. Cost basis
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An investor who holds a stock in their portfolio can write a covered call option contract on each 100 shares. This is an income producing strategy for collecting option premium on existing positions. The downside risk on a covered call write is that the underlying shares go lower than the compensation from the option premium
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Melvin Capital Management is a hedge fund with over $13 billion dollars in assets under management. Melvin Capital became very popular in the trading world in early January 2021 as their GameStop short position combined with other short sellers resulted in more than 139% of Gamestop (GME) shares to be short at one time. This
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The current Bill Ackman net worth is over $2.3 billion. He is ranked as the 25th richest hedge fund manager in the U.S. and #391 on the Forbes 400 wealthy list and ranked the 1,305th richest person in the world. Bill Ackman is a self-made billionaire through operating the Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund
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The volume–weighted moving average (VWMA) quantifies the quantity of volume that prices traded at on a chart. The VMWA weighs prices based on the volume of trades in a time frame. The VMWA is represented by a line on a chart that changes as price and volume changes. Traders can use VWMAs for different time frames
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The current Warren Buffett portfolio for 2021 has been updated. Here are the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio holdings managed by Warren Buffett that were reported in the 13F filing to the SEC for the 4th quarter of 2020 at the end of December of last year. Warren Buffett continues to oversee and manage the Berkshire Hathaway Holdings
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Cathie Wood is the founder and fund manager for ARK Investment Management, LLC. She has four decades of investment experience in the financial industry. As a portfolio manager she focuses on buying publicly traded companies that are disruptive to their industry. She looks for companies with innovations in technology and business models that create change
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Click here for the Current Michael Burry Portfolio 2021 Q1 Update as of the 3/31/2021 13F filing. Fund manager Dr. Michael Burry was made famous in the movie The Big Short after he bet big against the housing market using derivatives and made a fortune during the 2008 crash. Here is the current Michael Burry
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