October 2015
By
Garrett Baldwin
The rise of cyber crime threatens the links between traders and markets, and will only accelerate as investors boost their reliance on technology. What follows is a conversation about the markets, cyber security and the coming challenges that investors and traders face in the 21st century economy.
By
Garrett Baldwin
The rise of cyber crime threatens the links between traders and markets, and will only accelerate as investors boost their reliance on technology. What follows is a conversation about the markets, cyber security and the coming challenges that investors and traders face in the 21st century economy.
By
Lauren Schmidt
Estimize, the crowdsourced financial estimates platform, announced the launch its newest product, the Estimize Stock Screener, which offers users a real-time, comprehensive view of the market sentiment for more than 1,500 stocks, as well as the ability to filter for specific attributes.
By
Daniel P. Collins
Most of you will receive this issue with ample time to consider our various contributors’ thoughts on the much anticipated Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting concluding on Sept. 17.
By
Daniel P. Collins
The U.S. Federal Reserve has not tightened its Fed funds rate for more than nine years. This has led to broad speculation as to how the market will react.
By
Daniel P. Collins
Two veteran bond experts assess the health of fixed income markets.
By
Christine Short
Despite fears surrounding tightening, markets should be able to absorb a rate increase.
By
Ryan Bailey
On April 28, 2015, the unthinkable happened. Twitter’s earnings announcement was leaked to the general public – on Twitter itself.
By
Rocco Pellegrinelli
Developed markets have enjoyed a long bull run in fixed income.
By
Ophir Gottlieb
The world of cyber security has grown as high visibility attacks captivate media attention whether they surround companies in the private sector (like Sony, Target and JP Morgan) or in the public sector where governments are on the verge of “virtual wars.”
By
Joe Cornell
Yahoo continues to take steps toward a tax-free spin-off of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba Group, into an entity called Aabaco Holdings.
By
Michael J. Corbett
Microcap stocks are one of the few asset classes where the average investor, through disciplined research, can compete with institutional traders.
By
Brent Plunkett
Trian Partners is a multi-billion dollar asset management firm founded in 2005 by Nelson Peltz, Peter May and Edward Garden.
By
Steve Reitmeister
Contemplating the growing threat of a cyber attack on Wall Street, brokers and exchanges, the first thing to look at is the main technology software and service providers. Most of those stocks can be found as holdings in the PureFunds ISE Cyber Security ETF
By
Milan Kratka and Carmen Li
Current volatility in the Chinese stock market may have come to many as a shock.
By
Kevin J. Davey
Every trader makes mistakes. Bad traders suffer from them; good traders improve. Here are some tips for moving on when the markets spurn you.
By
Howard L. Simons
Analyzing trading structures to evaluate noise levels
By
Bramesh Bhandari
The theory behind the Mass Index is that reversals occur when the price range increases. By tracking the high-low range, this indicator identifies trend reversals based on range expansions.
By
Jean Folger
Candlesticks offer a clean, clear representation of market action. One of the more reliable multi-candlestick patterns is inside days.
By
Michael Thomsett
How can a trader select options with a higher likelihood of success? Employ value principles to find mispriced options.
By
Paul D. Cretien
Profitable speculative opportunities can be found by spreading building material markets such as lumber, copper, aluminum and steel.
By
Michael Brooks, David Perlman and Robert Pease
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) first court battle interpreting its new anti-manipulation authority under Dodd-Frank amendments to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) is CFTC v. Kraft Foods Group Inc. (KFT) and Mondeléz Global LLC. The case alleges that Kraft manipulated the wheat futures and cash markets in 2011.
By
Matt Weller
The foreign exchange market dwarfs the liquidity of every other traded market by a substantial margin, with more than $5 trillion in average daily volume.
By
Daniel P. Collins
The futures trading pits closed in the first week of July, but some grain customers may have been stuck and unable to get out of certain oddball spreads.
By
Yesenia Duran
Options writing is viewed as one of the more risky trading strategies, but Max Ansbacher has found a way to survive and thrive in the options niche for more than 39 years — 19 of those as principal at Ansbacher Investment Management, where his strategy has produced a compound annual return of 11.52% since 1996 and is up 22.24% year-to-date through July.
By
Christopher Mistal
Jeffrey A. Hirsch
Actionable cycles, indicators and patterns from the 48th edition of Stock Trader’s Almanac
By
J Burr Vannatta
Sam Outlaw - Angeleno
Hailing from Los Angeles, Sam Outlaw is a bit of a musical enigma playing what I would label sincere country.
By
Tyler Vigen
Five dollar bills printed by the Federal Reserve correlates with Motorcyclists killed in accidents in the U.S.
By
Hillary Choo
From classic cocktails to modern concoctions, bitters are making their way into your glass and enhancing the flavors of mixed drinks around the world.
By
Andrew Zatlin
Beginning last year, the Bank of England included prostitution in its GDP measurements.
By
Yesenia Duran
Thinkorswim Mobile
Futures, options, stocks and forex can all be traded quickly and easily with the free thinkorswim app from TD Ameritrade.
By
Rob Matthews
Josh Ireland
What interest rate will be necessary to maintain recent performance of bond funds and what will happen when the bull bond market ends?
By
W. Ben Hunt
What trading strategies have the theroretical possibility of edge or alpha? Here are two.