Analyst revisions are a driver of momentum and that information is very useful. Most firms will look at trends over past 4wks to 3 months.
Do you focus purely on commodities/metals?
I used risk arb as an example. Obviously, the easiest way to make money, if you have the right infrastructure, is quote stuffing and order...
Spend as much time learning as possible. You should know all of the key drivers of all of the asset classes you trade, what the market structure...
RenTech soaks up arbitrage (the $20 bill laying around) and is able to compound this aggressively using leverage. Using a multi-strategy approach...
Vince, stocks with higher levels of volatility have options that are "richer" (more expensive). You probably should look at stocks that currently...
The amount of time you spend on research really depends upon your time horizon and investment strategies. As a professional trader (worked on buy...
Price action is a lagging indicator. If you are trading based upon price action, you have already missed the move. In the fast-paced nature of FX...
The IV of an option is the "spread" -- higher spread is driven by liquidity premia and uncertainty around the future. So higher/lower IV...
The data is random to obfuscate complexity. If you want to trade a security, you need to understand why other market actors trade it.
Actually, it's the opposite.
I run a l/s strategy, would love to share ideas. Ping me with deets. Are you on bbg?
Georgia election is closer than expected, raising the prospect of the Trump Tax Cuts to be pulled (meaning corp tax rate is higher, which means...
sec.gov just search EDGAR for the company and skim to the filing. For cursory analysis, IB TWS uses Reuters data in the fundamentals explorer app.
Central bank policy in the context of fiscal policy/economic situation/relative performance will help you understand the trend in the mid-term. In...
No. This is tea-leaf stuff.
By definition, a naked call is unhedged. So no you cannot limit the loss. Any attempt to limit the loss no longer makes it "naked"...
I agree that the negative externalities made it feel like a general ban on gold and was challenging and unfair to investors who begun to hoard...
This thesis is the one I’m countering. BTC is not a threat to the dollar as a reserve currency. BTC is more like a commodity or a collectible than...
You do realize that the entire purpose of that was so that FDR could use expansionary fiscal policy to stimulus the economy, right? In those days,...
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