This monday is one of the worst mondays since great depression. Stocks posted big losses in markets across much of the globe as investors absorbed bankruptcy plans at Lehman and Merrill Lynch’s forced sale to Bank of America for $50 billion in stock. And perhaps most ominously, American International Group Inc. is asking the Federal [...]
Leverage is one of the best tools of profit. Leverage is what fed the real estate boom and continues to feed the popularity in forex trading. Unfortunately for equities investors, leveraging your stock purchases means borrowing from your broker. These margin accounts can be hard to get and require a significant account size which puts [...]
Options are financial instruments that convey the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction on some underlying security. For example, buying a call option provides the right to buy a specified quantity of a security at a set strike price at some time on or before expiration, while buying a put [...]
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