What is a piker? In North America a piker is term for a gambler who makes only small bets. It is a stingy or cautious person. In Australia and New Zealand a piker is a person who withdraws from a commitment. (Definitions from Oxford languages). Another claimed origin of the term is Pike County Missouri, […]
Talking heads on financial television and social media spend the majority of their time trying to speculate and predict a future that doesn’t exist yet. There is no way to know what the future of the financial markets hold as it would require knowing and understanding the actions of all the market participants. Not only
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Many new traders enter into trading with the goal to trade full time for a living and quit their full time job. Trading is a professional endeavor that requires the same amount of effort that any professional career takes. The low barrier to entry is what lures people into trading thinking it is easy. Most
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Below is a list of the current largest economies in the world in 2021 based on the most recent data available. Nominal GDP in U.S. Dollars: Measures and compares GDP between nations by considering local prices and local currencies converted to U.S. dollars. This the primary number that determines a countries ranking on this list.
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In options trading, a vertical spread option play is created by buying and selling multiple options on the same underlying stock, with the same expiration date but with different strike prices. They can use either all call options or all put options. The vertical name comes from the trading sheets that were once used in
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OTM is short for out of the money in options trading. This refers to the moneyness of an option contract, the relationship of the current price of the underlying asset to the strike price of a call or put option contract written on that asset. An out-of-the money option has a strike price far from
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What is delta in options? The delta of an option is part of the option Greek pricing model and prices in the magnitude of the move in the underlier that the option will capture based on the odds of the option expiring in-the-money. Option delta is represented as the velocity of a price change in
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Below is a list of the current most active options traded as of Apr 22, 2021. Stocks: Symbol/ Contracts/ %Calls/ %Puts/ Daily Vol% T 382425 83.61 16.39 1113.47 TSLA 317955 66.93 33.07 124.15 AAPL 194653
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A put credit spread attempts to make money through selling put option premium and having the stock price move higher or stay in the profitability zone by expiration. A put credit spread can be closed with a profit at any time until the expiration date of the puts in the option play. The bull put
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5G networks will make their nationwide debut in the U.S. in 2021. Here are seven of the best 5G stocks in 2021 to look at for trading and investing opportunities inside your own strategy. Apple $AAPL: Of course the provider of the top 5G handheld device the iPhone could be one of the best 5G
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What are Dow futures? Dow futures are contracts that trade with commodities on futures exchanges. Dow futures contracts have set prices along with dates for delivery to buyers. They are tools with leverage that give traders and investors the right to buy or sell depending on whether they are long of short the Dow Jones
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Bitcoin is currently the most popular cryptocurrency in the world. It’s symbol is “₿”. It was created and launched in 2008 by someone under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. The cryptocurrency went into real world use in 2009 as open-source blockchain software. Bitcoin was the first decentralized digital currency separate from a central authority. It
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A skewed distribution is when one tail of data in a range is longer than the other side. A data set can have a positively skewed distribution or a negatively skewed distribution. What is the difference between positive skew versus negative skew? Skewness is the measurement of a a coefficient that has the ability to be
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Berkshire Hathaway is the publicly traded corporate conglomerate that Warren Buffett built into an insurance business and a holding company for his investment portfolio of stocks and for the companies he acquired in full. It gets more difficult for him to continue to find companies that are big enough to be meaningful to his Berkshire
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Here is a list of websites that allow traders to download historical stock data for the U.S. stock market. Yahoo Finance allows download data manually from its website: One of the best places to get free historical end of day price data going back over 60 years is still finance.yahoo.com. Yahoo Finance provides historical price
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Dan Zanger is a modern day legend in the trading world. His mother Elaine loved the stock market and as a child Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock make a big move on the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1.
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How to read stock charts is one of the first skills a new trader should develop as their technical trading method, system. and plan will emerge from this foundational skill. Reading stock charts will show the trader whether a chart is in an uptrend, downtrend, in a range, or highly volatile. Chart patterns are visual representations
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Chick-Fil-A is not a publicly traded stock, has no ticker symbol or stock price. The Chick-fil-A company is privately owned and estimated to be worth $4.5 billion. The private equity shares are divided between the three sons of the founder Samuel Truett-Cathy. Chick-fil-A was named the number one restaurant brand in America for six straight
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Hulu does not have a stock price because it is owned by other corporations. There is no publicly traded Hulu stock, it is a corporate owned joint-venture. There is no Hulu stock price quote or a ticker symbol for the company. Hulu can be indirectly invested in my buying shares of Disney stock (DIS) or
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TikTok stock is currently in private equity shares with a majority owned by ByteDance Limited which is also a private Chinese company still in its start up phase. Tiktok stock is not publicly traded on an exchange. There is no way to buy TikTok shares in the stock market because neither it nor its parent
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