Money. Power. Greed. Corruption. These are some of the core elements that often appear in movies about the stock market. It’s no surprise that films about the stock market – the professions, people, and events around making (and losing) astronomical …
Retail traders can beat institutional traders by being patient and targetting small and unregulated markets. Retail traders can wait for the best opportunities to present themselves, whereas institutional traders may need to make suboptimal investments to track benchmarks or investment …
Trading quotes distill the complex trading world into insightful, bite-sized nuggets of wisdom. No matter your level of experience, you’re sure to find value in these 20 trading quotes from some of the greatest traders. In this post, I’ll share …
The Turtle Traders experiment was conducted in the early 1980s by Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt to see whether anyone could be taught how to make money trading. The experiment involved taking a random group of people, teaching them a …
A hedge fund is a limited partnership of investors that can make extensive use of more sophisticated trading, portfolio construction, and risk management techniques to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives, in hopes of realizing substantial capital …
Investing quotes are popular for a reason — they allow you to learn the essential lessons from the greatest investors of all time in just a few short sentences. In this post, I will go over some of my favorite …
Year-over-year (YoY) is a method of analyzing data between two comparable periods on an annualized basis. Understanding how to calculate and what YoY values are can help you interpret financial and economic data more effectively. But it’s not enough to …
A robo-advisor is a financial advisory firm that delivers its services through software systems. Robo-advisors provide financial advice and investment management based on mathematical and statistical models with little to no human intervention. Robo-advisors have transformed the industry even though …
Insider trading is the buying and selling public securities using material, nonpublic information. For such a short answer, it raises a lot of questions. What constitutes material information? Does it matter how you came to access the data? Why is …
