The stock market has had a bumpy ride lately and volatility is elevated. That means juicy option premiums for traders willing to bet that the market will rebound within the next few weeks. On Friday, VIX spike to 25.65, having been as low as 15.34 just a few days earlier. Traders, who believe the decline…
SiaCoin Continues Gains: Majority of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others in top 30 continued to consolidate throughout the weekend. But there’s been one altcoin which saw rapid gains. Siacoin, ranking 29th in terms of coin market cap, gained 16.60% on Sunday after ranging for 4 consecutive days. What is SiaCoin? Sia is tapping on the…
We asked financial advisers for some of the most important ideas they wish their clients understood when it comes to money, retirement, and the future. Here are 7 of the most important. Wish you had a crystal ball for retirement planning? Most of us do, and for good reason. Even if you’re sure you’ll have enough…
What are the four behaviors that transform ordinary people into world-class leaders? This is the question that Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell ask and answer in The CEO Next Door (Currency / Crown Publishing, 2018). From a database of more than 17,000 CEOs and C-suite executives, they analyzed over 2,600 leaders. They coupled…
When it comes to investing there are many options. For the investor looking to participate in the stock market one can obviously buy individual stocks. Over the years mutual funds became the investment of choice and still dominate in retirement accounts employers provide. Then came ETFs (Exchange Trading Funds) which are very popular for those…
Right now the stock market is on a 16 month upswing and the question I receive all the time is “should I sell or buy in this kind of a market?” My answer is simple…………..Who knows! How many times have experts predicted the market would crash and it skyrocketed? Or that it would skyrocket and…
Neil Irwin had an interesting piece arguing that Trump is fighting the last battle on trade in worrying about imports of steel and aluminum. His main point, that the millions of jobs we lost in manufacturing to trade in the last decade are not coming back, is largely correct. But there are a few points worth adding….
After all the preparation, all the expectation, cheerleading and doomsaying, China’s Yuan-denominated crude oil futures contract began trading tonight and appears to be off a good start with well over 10 billion yuan notional traded within the first hour. So far it has tracked WTI futures well, trading at around a $2 premium to WTI (when…
Trading psychology plays a bigger role in our results than most new traders realize. Here are 9 ways psychology may be negatively affecting your trading, and what to do to fix it. Maybe you have read lots of books, even practiced trading in a demo account and did well, but for some reason, you can’t…
The death of a pedestrian during a test drive of an Uber driverless vehicle (even as a backup human sat in the driver’s seat) calls into question not just the technology—which didn’t seem to detect the pedestrian crossing a busy roadway and therefore didn’t brake or swerve—but also the notion that driving is nothing more…
