Bernie Sanders current net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million in February 2020. Sanders became mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1991 and then the US senate in 2007. He is the longest serving independent in the history of congress. Bernie Sanders joined the Democratic Party […]
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Data analytics is the process of analyzing information through filtering it to transform the raw data into useable models. The goal is to uncover highly probably conclusions that can be used for an an edge in future decision making after seeing repeatable patterns of behavior from the data. Data analytics is reliant on applying statistics
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Michael Bloomberg’s net worth is currently $61.9 billion as of February 2020. This is up approximately $10 billion from November 2019. He is currently the 12th richest person in the world and the 12th richest person in the USA. How did Bloomberg create his personal wealth? Bloomberg started his financial career at Salomon Brothers, before founding his own
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A stop loss is a risk management tool that keeps your losing trades small. The point of a stop loss is defensive and to eliminate big losses from your trading. Here are ten tips for thinking about when placing a stop loss on a trade: Your stop loss should be a part of your trading
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Here are ten current high yielding dividend stocks in 2020 for income investors and value investors to take a look at. Purchasing a well known company listed on a major exchange that you are familiar with can add a margin of safety with high yielding stocks. Many times high yields can be a warning sign
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This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here with permission. Since my last post regarding Martial arts and trading, I have been consolidating my thoughts on ways to improve our mindset of when we trade. Let’s face it. Mastering any craft, has no destination. Pit stops maybe, but
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There are two different types of stop orders you can place with your broker to exit a trade when a specific price level is reached that triggers your stop loss on a position. Both of these types of orders are risk management tools that try to limit the losses if a stock or market moves
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Here are thirteen of Warren Buffett’s favorite things. Warren Buffett’s favorite investing book: “The book that had the most impact on my life was ‘The Intelligent Investor’ by Ben Graham.” he says. Warren Buffett’s favorite book: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks Warren Buffett’s favorite index fund is the
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we analyze the moves made by SPY, QQQ, and IWM over the last week and beyond. On Sunday, We have TrendSpider partner and avid user of the platform, “AlwaysRed” on to discuss his trading style and how he uses TrendSpider.
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Trader and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb created the black swan theory of events as a metaphor to name an event that happens far outside the normal distribution of deviations from the mean and looks like a fat tail outside a normal bell curve. The term comes from how people thought all swans were white until
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Private equity is specifically a kind of stock ownership in a company that is not publicly traded on a stock exchange. In recent times though it has been what people call private funds that use capital to takeover companies (many times through leveraged buyouts) with the goal to rebuild the company’s business model to create
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In his book “Fooled by Randomness” author N.N Taleb shows the dangers of seeing patterns where there is only random noise, the danger of confusing luck with skill, and believing things can be predicted with accuracy that are simply randomly occurring. Randomness can become especially dangerous in trading and investing in the financial markets as
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A put option contract gives the buyer of the contract the right to sell the underlying asset to the seller of the option at the strike price on the day of expiration. The put buyer has the right to ‘put’ the asset or sell the asset to the put option seller on the date of
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In finance and investing the correlation coefficient is used to calculate a statistical measurement of how strong movements in two markets are historically in relation to one each other. The correlation is expressed in a range of values between 1.0 and -1.0. All the readings of the formula are inside the 1.0 to -1.0 range.
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A chart pattern is simply a visual representation of the prices buyers and sellers bought and sold in the past. There is no magic in a chart pattern they just show you what happened in the past and what has a higher probability of happening in the future. A chart pattern can show that a
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Warren Buffett is a rabid reader of newspapers, company reports, and books. He has spent many hours a day reading over the past 70 years and does have some favorite books that made a big impression on his life. Here are the top five books that most influenced Warren Buffett in his investing and business
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A margin call is when a broker requires that an account holder deposit more capital into their account or sell an open position to maintain it at the required minimum security value for margin requirements. A margin call happens when the value of a trader’s margin account of borrowed money drops below the broker’s requirement
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The definition of financial hedging is to buy insurance to limit the risk of the downside if an asset falls in value. Hedging is a multi-position strategy that purchases insurance for an investment or trade position that is being held as a way to limit the downside losses if it trends against the investor. It
The falling wedge chart pattern can fit in the continuation or reversal category. When it is a continuation pattern it will trend down, however the slope in the wedge will be against the overall market uptrend. When it is a reversal pattern, the falling wedge trends down when the overall market is in a downtrend.
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Warren Buffett thought the management fees that hedge funds charged investors was ridiculous based on their historical returns in comparison to the markets. So Mr. Buffett set up a challenge for the hedge fund industry in 2008. One fund accepted his challenge, Protégé Partners LLC, and they made a million-dollar bet on who could produce
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