Moving averages can be a great way to get a handle on what market motions mean as far as where future prices might go. Moving averages come in two varieties: simple and exponential. A simple moving average weights each day separately while exponential moving averages weight the most recent days the heaviest. These technical indicators [...]
An option can be bought order to reflect exactly where you think the price of a stock will go. If you want the price of the stock to go up, a call option is appropriate. If you think the price will go down, a put option is the proper choice. The world of binary options, [...]
Penny stocks, so called because their prices are generally under $1.00, can have huge short term potential. Their cheapness plus volatility makes for big percentage swings that many traders like to take advantage of. Because they are so low in price, a trader can buy a large number of these penny stocks and wait for [...]
The “Occupy Wall Street” protest has lasted far long than anyone really expected it to. Despite the fact that it was originally scheduled to last two months, only a handful of protestors began the protest in New York City’s financial district. But a few weeks later, the crowds have grown exponentially. Even labor unions like [...]
Like any major property based financial transaction, a reverse mortgage can be manipulated by lenders to benefit them at the expense of the homeowner. The regulations and controls imposed by the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) on the reverse mortgage sector typically protect borrowers from most predatory lending [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC, is mandated to ensure that individual investors have clear and accurate information about stocks that they may buy, and the companies that issue them. The SEC’s other mandate is to ensure that persons who sell stocks or advise investors are acting in the best interest of the individual [...]
Central banks around the world hold the key to the economic prosperity of their countries. This key is their control over their interest rates. Interest rates determine the perceived value of the local currency as against others. Interest rates have a direct relationship with their currency’s value; when one goes up, the other generally will [...]
When it comes to forex trading, you want to learn as much as possible prior to entering your first real trade. The more you know, the better prepared you will be to make an educated decision once it is time to act. There are many good trading books out in the market; many .of these [...]
Sometimes the most frustrating trades you conduct will be ones that you slightly profit from. If you have a very profitable trade, but do not close it in time to lock in the highest high, it is the same as losing money. This happens when traders get greedy or fail to use trailing stops. They [...]
It used to be that in down markets you simply would pull your money out of the marketplace and wait for prices to start rising again before you invested more money. This is an outdated mode of thinking; you truly can make money in the Forex market regardless of what the dollar is doing price [...]