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How the Employment Report Affects Financial Markets
The U.S. Department of Labor’s employment report is the first piece of major economic data released each month. The report is released on the first Friday of every month. Bond, stock index, and currency [more…]
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Factors to Consider When Using Straddles
You can create a straddle when you simultaneously buy a put and a call for the same stock at the same strike price and of the same duration. Keep in mind that there are some important factors that you [more…]
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Where Does Money Come From?
Central banks create money either by printing it or by buying bonds in the treasury market. When central banks buy bonds, they usually buy their own country’s treasury bonds, and their purchases are made [more…]
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Questions to Ask before Trading Futures and Options
Before becoming a futures and options trader, you need to know what you're getting into — and what you may get out of the risk-taking experience. Look to this checklist for key questions that can help [more…]
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How Money Flows Affect the Financial Markets
When central banks buy bonds from banks and dealers, they’re putting money into circulation, making it easy for people and businesses to borrow. At the juncture where money becomes easier to borrow, the [more…]
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Economic Reports Provide Financial Insights
Economic reports — which include the Consumer Price Index, the Producer Price Index, employment updates, and releases on consumer confidence — are useful resources for making informed investing or trading [more…]
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What Consumer Confidence Reports Reveal
The report that measures consumer confidence is a big report that comes from two sources that publish separate updates, the Conference Board, a private research group, and the University of Michigan. [more…]
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How to Use Straddles in Futures and Options Trading
In advance of the release of a big economic report, you can set up a straddle. This strategy is simple to execute and the financial move can be quite profitable. [more…]
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Are You Prepared to Trade in Options?
If you’re thinking about options trading, you'd be wise to consider the following facts before you take the financial plunge. You can then decide whether to include options in your trading platform. [more…]
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How a Call Option Trade Works
You can think of a call option as a bet that the underlying asset is going to rise in value. The following example illustrates how a call option trade works. [more…]
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Using "the Greeks" to Measure Risks with Options
Options require you to pick up a bit of the Greek language, which is okay, because you need to learn only four words: delta, gamma, theta, and vega. The Greeks, [more…]
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ISM Report on Business Shows Manufacturing Economic Status
The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Report on Businessusually moves the markets — or, in other words, is a market mover. The ISM measures the health of the manufacturing sector in the U.S. This [more…]
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Housing Starts Reports Reflect Construction Trends
Released every month, housing starts statistics are compiled by the U.S. Commerce Department and reported in three parts: building permits, housing starts, and housing completions. [more…]
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How Oil Supply Data Informs Traders
Oil supply data became a central report outside of the oil markets in 2004 and 2005 as the price of crude oil soared to record highs after the war in Iraq. [more…]
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Trading on Margin Basics for Futures and Options
Margin is what makes futures trading so attractive, because it adds leverage to futures contract trades. The downside is that if you don’t understand how trading on a margin works, you can take on some [more…]
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What's in the Producer Price Index Report?
The Producer Price Index, or PPI, is an important report, but it doesn’t usually move the markets to the same degree as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the employment report. [more…]
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How the Fiat System Works
The global monetary system is what’s called a Fiat system in which money is a storage medium for purchasing power and a substitute for barter. Each dollar bill, euro, yen, gold ingot, or whatever currency [more…]
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What's the Purpose of Central Banks?
Central banks, like the Federal Reserve in the United States, are designed to make sure that their respective domestic economies run as smoothly as possible. In most countries, central banks are expected [more…]
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Beige Book Report Summarizes District Economic Activity
The Federal Reserve produces the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, otherwise known as the Beige Book. The Fed collects anecdotal reports from Fed bank presidents, key businesses, economists [more…]
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Consumer Price Index Report Details Inflation
The Consumer Price Index, or CPI, is the main inflation report for the futures and financial markets. Unexpected rises in this indicator usually lead to falling bond prices, rising interest rates, and [more…]
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What’s the Difference between Stocks and Options?
Just like stocks and futures contracts, options are securities that are subject to binding agreements. The key is that options give you the right to buy or sell an underlying security or asset, without [more…]
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How a Put Option Trade Works
Put options are bets that the price of the underlying asset is going to fall. Puts are excellent trading instruments when you’re trying to guard against losses in stock, futures contracts, or commodities [more…]
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Stock Trading: Learning from the Mistakes of the '90s
Because most investors ignored some basic observations about economics in the late 1990s, they lost trillions in their stock portfolios. In the late 1990s, the United States experienced the greatest expansion [more…]
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High-End Investments: Foreign Currency Trading and Hedge Funds
You can put your money in high-end investment vehicles, such as foreign currency trading (or forex) and hedge funds. High-end investing involves not so much investing [more…]
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How to Read a Stock Table
You can use stock tables to select promising investment opportunities and to monitor your stocks’ performance. The stock tables in major business publications, such as [more…]
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