Over the last few weeks more and more companies that have dealt with mortgages have been hammered hard. Even those with no direct exposure to the sub prime loan market have been hit as the global sentiment turns against lenders. Countrywide, the largest US lender could face bankruptcy if liquidity worsens. Northern Rock in the [...]
The study of options can expand your perceptions about the range of possibilities. Most people are familiar with two forms of investment: equity and debt. There is a third method, however, and that third method is far more interesting than the other two. Its attributes are unlike any that most people understand-and these differences can [...]
Where does mortgage money actually come from? When you get a $500K mortgage, who actually writes the checks? Most people have no idea. Does it come from a bank? Does it come from the government or some large quasi-governmental agency like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac? It all seems so [...]
The majority of casual investors buy and sell stocks. If they are bearish on a stock, some will even short-sell stock. But relatively few investors fully understand and take advantage of trading options.
With stocks, you own a small piece of a company. However, with options, you purchase the right to buy or [...]
Buying securities or currencies is somewhat like buying an automobile.
The decision to buy something is relatively easy.
What, specifically, to buy is an altogether different problem. Before you drive your new car home, you have to choose a certain make, a certain model, certain upholstery, a certain color scheme.
You decide between six cylinders and eight, between [...]
A good example of long term astute trading is Warren Buffet who is now 78 years young. He is currently worth an estimated cool $52 billion give or take a million.
And he has achieved that by essentially looking for quality, well-managed companies that are undervalued by the market. And he is prepared to wait [...]
From time to time I come across age pensioners whose life is now miserable because they’ve found themselves with what is to them, overwhelming credit card and other debt. On a pension, unless they leave themselves short, they often find that can’t make the repayments.
When talking to me, some of [...]
On the hunt for your next or maybe it’s your first credit card? Before jumping in at the deep and accepting the first one that happens to fall on your door mat, consider what you want your card to do for you; after all it’s your credit so make it work in your favour! Despite [...]
I practice what I preach and I preach diversification. The answer to keeping your financial head above water in this unpredictable market is all about diversification. That doesn’t mean to spread your investment opportunities simply over a number of stocks or within a few commercial sectors. It means to broaden your investment opportunities over a [...]
A question I encounter often is, what are the correlations between your trading and other commodity trading advisors. More so…what makes you different.. Both are great questions..First in my opinion out of the thousands of commodity trading advisors, I would only consider diversified trend followers. This cuts out the options strategies that I have seen [...]