7) Futures Fundamentals: How to Trade
Futures trading is an advance investing instrument that is not suitable for everyone, especially beginners. If you feel you have […]
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6) Futures Fundamentals: Strategies
A futures contract tries to predict the value of an index or commodity at some time in the future. Different
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5) Futures Fundamentals: Characteristics
In the futures market, the definition of margin is different from how it is defined in the stock market. Here,
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4) Futures Fundamentals: The Players
Players are classified into two categories: hedgers and speculators. Hedgers A person who buys or sells in the futures market
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3) Futures Fundamentals: How the Market Works
The futures market is a centralized place where buyers and sellers all over the world can meet and enter into
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2) Futures Fundamentals: A Brief History
Some 150 years ago, before the North American futures market started, farmers would grow their crops then bring them to
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6) Margin Trading: Conclusion
Margin trading can be compared to a gamble. It’s either you make lots of money, or lose all of it.
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5) Margin Trading: The Risks
In the same way that leverage can increase profit, it can also increase losses just as much. Margin trading involves
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4) Margin Trading: The Advantages
It is normal for companies to borrow money to finance projects. Similarly, investors can borrow money to boost their buying
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3) Margin Trading: The Dreaded Margin Call
The focus of this section of the tutorial is the maintenance margin and the dreaded margin call. A maintenance margin
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2) Margin Trading: What Is Buying On Margin?
Margin Trading is investing in stocks but this time it involves borrowing money from a broker to have more buying
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6) Risk and Diversification: Conclusion
Attaining the right mix between risk and return will be a big help to move you one step closer to
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5) Risk and Diversification: Diversifying your Portfolio
With the stock market being so unpredictable, individual investors need a safety net. To address this need, diversification comes into
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4) Risk and Diversification: The Risk-Reward Tradeoff
The iron stomach test is synonymous to the risk-return tradeoff. An important investment decision that must be made is on
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3) Risk and Diversification: Different Types of Risk
There are two basic risk types: Systematic risk Unsystematic risk Risk that could affect a broad spectrum of assets is