When commodity prices take off in the short term people tend to fear long-term changes to their everyday lives, especially when it comes to one with such large...
The wide world of options can open up an everyday trader’s portfolio to P/L fluctuations unseen in the outright world of shares and futures. You can take...
When I was at the Chicago Board of Trade, I sat next to a guy named Larry. We were a great pair. Larry had been in the industry for more than a decade bouncing...
There’s a satisfaction to day trading that can’t be found in any other strategies. The finality of knowing whether you’ve won or lost by the end of the day...
The old motto, “sell high, buy low,” has become a punchline over the years as the growing number of everyday people entering the market find trading not so...
One of the most frightening sights in trading is the infinity symbol that appears next to the potential loss on a position that is short the underlying market....
The descent in metals following last week’s FOMC could present an interesting opportunity for those looking to add long gold and silver exposure to their...
For decades, people formed opinions about the Fed and US interest rates in percentage yields only to then flip their assumptions trading traditional products...
Business Wire reports on Small Exchange, announcing the launch of options on futures for small precious metals [SPRE] available to investors on January 25th.
To many, crude oil trading looks like the wild west: it’s a singular marketplace lacking diversification seen in other risk-on markets like equities; its...
The Fed primarily controls interest rates, which they move higher in times of inflation and lower in times of recession. But what do they do when there's fear...
High inflation is causing some of the largest price extremes, bond and forex markets have seen in decades. Mike and Frank show you how high inflation has...
The highest inflation measure in more than 40 years has left many markets in utter disarray: Nasdaq is at its lowest since 2020, interest rates are their...
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