Articles for: United States

I was reading through the Number One Trading Plan again on the weekend, and revisiting Section 11 – Price Forecasting, which is one of my favourite sections.

Happy birthday to our much quoted and well known friend: the Sub-Prime crisis.

The sell off continued on Wall Street this week with Financials again bearing the brunt of investor nervousness.

Welcome to Part 3 of my series on the Greeks. This article will focus on Vega and how this devil of a Greek behaves throughout the life of an option and as time to expiration approaches.

All Safety in the Market students should be familiar with David Bowden’s expression “Get to know your contract like a cow knows its calf”.

Renewed concerns over the impact of the credit crisis acted to erase all of last week’s gains in just the first part of the US trading week, before a re-think later on Thursday gave rise to the biggest one day rally since the start of May.

A common misconception is that in order for a trader to be profitable, we MUST buy very close to the bottom of the market, and we MUST sell very close to the top of the market.

After a shocking week previously, the US market managed to regain some lost ground through to Thursday despite a raft of disappointing economic data results.

In the fourth part of this series, we will be going through the actual trade on our "Hot stock in a Hot sector".

Record oil prices have taken a toll on the US stockmarket this week.