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Options Trading Tips: Ten Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Trading Options

The options market presents both great opportunities for gains but also the potential for the risks of losses. Here are ten things that I learned quickly through experience that all new traders should understand before they start trading options. 1. Short options have unlimited risk when they have no hedge. It’s important to understand the […]

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The Difference Between Saving, Investing, and Speculating

Investing, Saving, Speculating, Speculation / Steve Burns

There is a big difference between saving, investing and speculating with money. Savings is putting money away safely for future use in a low interest account. Investing is putting capital into an asset of value for either potential cash flow or appreciation. Speculating is betting on an asset increasing dramatically in value mostly due to

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Market Wizard Linda Raschke Trading Strategy

Market Wizard / Steve Burns

Linda Bradford Raschke has been a full-time professional trader for more than 40+ years. She was the principle trader for several funds and also the Commodity Pool Operator for her own hedge fund she opened in 2002. Her trading records were verified and she was included in Jack Schwager’s best selling book, The New Market Wizards

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Options Trading: Understanding Option Prices

Options Greeks, Options Pricing Model / Steve Burns

There are two types of directional option contracts: calls and puts. Call options are contracts that move higher in price when the underlying stock moves higher. Put options are contracts that move higher in price when the underlying stock moves lower. To enter an option position you can either buy to open a long option

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What Is A Covered Call & How Do I Trade It?

Covered calls, Options strategy, Options trading / Steve Burns

Covered calls are an income strategy for traders and investors to earn money on stocks they hold. Covered Call Writing Covered call writing is an appropriate strategy in a bull market or one that is trading inside a repeating price range. Creating a covered call option play is when a trader or investor sells out-of-the-money

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Call Options & Put Options Explained

options / Steve Burns

Option contracts represent a bet on the directional price movement of an underlying stock in a defined time period. Option contracts represent 100 shares of a stock and are written on time frames of weekly, monthly, and yearly. The price of an option contract is based on the probability of it being in-the-money at expiration.

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Bill Ackman Portfolio 2022: Q2 Update

Portfolio / Steve Burns

Bill Ackman became a billionaire through operating the Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund that he founded in 2004. He became famous in the financial world for his short position on bond insurer MBIA and his rescue of mall operator General Growth early on in his investment career. His approach is mostly as a contrarian

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Current Ray Dalio Portfolio 2022: Q2 Update

Portfolio / Steve Burns

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and grew it into one of the world’s largest hedge funds by 2005. Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha strategy has generated approximately 12% annualized returns since its founding in December 1991. As of 2022 his hedge fund has 105 clients with over $235 billion in total assets under management. Ray

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Cathie Wood Portfolio 2022: Q2 Update

Cathie Wood / Steve Burns

Cathie Wood founded ARK Investment Management, LLC which focuses on disruptive innovation and offers investment solutions to investors seeking long-term growth in the publicly traded markets. Wood created ARK in 2014 with the idea to package active stock portfolios in an ETF format. Wood’s Ark Innovation Fund is their flagship portfolio. Ark invest offers many different

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Current George Soros Portfolio 2022: Q2 Update

George Soros / Steve Burns

George Soros is a legendary trader with average annual returns of 29% during his 34 years as a hedge fund manager. He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short sale of $10 billion (US) worth of pounds sterling, which made him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992

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Current Warren Buffett Portfolio 2022: Q2

Warren Buffett / Steve Burns

Below are the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio holdings managed by Warren Buffett that were reported in the 13F filing to the SEC for the 2nd quarter of 2022 on June 30th. Warren Buffett continues to oversee and manage the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio that contains approximately $300,130,772,000 in stock positions. [1] Warren Buffett Portfolio Holdings Position Rank/Ticker/Company/% of portfolio

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Current Michael Burry Portfolio 2022: Q2 Update

Michael Burry / Steve Burns

Michael Burry has grown more and most bearish on Twitter with his most recent tweets and has been warning about inflation, a recession, and a market crash now for more than a year. What is Michael Burry’s current portfolio? According to his just released 13F, legendary investor Michael Burry has exited all his positions which

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90% of traders lose money… So how to be in the top 10%?

Profitable trading / Steve Burns

According to many studies by brokers I have seen 90% of traders lose money over the long-term, some brokers say it is higher or lower but the range is typically in that area. There is a popular saying in the trading world that “90% of traders lose 90% of their money in the first 90

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Best Day Trading Time Frame?

Day Trading / Steve Burns

This is a guest post by Cory Mitchell, CMT of tradethatswing.com. Day traders may trade on one timeframe or use multiple time frames. Which to use? Chart time frame examples: 1, 5, 15, 30, 60-minute. Also tick charts (a set # of transactions). Smaller time frames (1 minute) give more detail. Longer time frames (15min), less

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5 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Trading

Profitable trading / Steve Burns

Here are five of the most important lessons I learned early on in trading that could help others just getting started or traders that are frustrated not being able to achieve profitability. 1. Trade small when you are starting out. When you are starting out as a new trader: “Trade small because that’s when you are

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Top 3 Trading Psychology Lessons I Leaned In 30 Years (Emotions = Mistakes)

Stress, Trade Management, Trading Plan, Trading Psychology / Steve Burns

The wrong trading psychology is one of the biggest things that cause people to fail in trading the financial markets. No trading system will work, no matter how good, if a trader can’t follow it with discipline and focus over a long period of time. It is emotions and ego that usually cause a trader

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Why Most Traders Lose Money

Profitable trading / Steve Burns

This is a guest post by Cory Mitchell, CMT of tradethatswing.com. Most traders DO lose money. Social media makes it look easier than it is because so many people are posting their winning trades. Availability bias is believing information you see most. Seeing it most doesn’t make it true. Losers just tend to be less public

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How to Trade Using Pin Bar Like a Pro

Candlesticks / Steve Burns

This is a guest post by David Roads, Technical Analyst & Author The pin bar is a candlestick bar which is a very powerful formation if you use it correctly. You can catch significant market moves as this bar signals to take the trade from the beginning of the trend. We find these ideal pin

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Position Sizing Cheat Sheet

position sizing / Steve Burns

This is a guest post by Cory Mitchell, CMT of tradethatswing.com. Position Sizing isn’t random. It’s calculated based on ACCOUNT RISK (AR) and TRADE RISK (TR). A formula controls risk so we know exactly how many stocks, futures contracts, or forex lots to buy on a given trade. There are many ways to calculate position

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Trading: How are they changing the world of Trading?

Machine Learning / Steve Burns

This is a guest post by Saloni Bogati of quantinsti.com. Latest technological phenomena like ML and AI transform businesses, industries, and their scope of growth. The finance industry is notorious for using the latest technologies and solutions to achieve objectives. Trading has also seen its fair share of advancements in recent years and has yielded

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