Check the calendar: Stay aware of the time of year and its possible impact. While seasonality isn't the final word, it can play a role. If it's late December, the market might be more prone to have a "Santa Claus" rally. If it's early January, of course, people may be selling ...
A trader can speculate using either the E-mini S&P 500 (/ES) futures or the Micro E-mini S&P 500 (/MES) contract, both of which are based on the underlying S&P 500 index. /ES delivers the cash equivalent of 50 times the value of the SPX, while /MES delivers the cash equivalent of...
There’s a bitcoin head and shoulders pattern forming. It’s a bearish technical pattern, and you can see it brewing on this chart. It first shows theleft shoulder,where bitcoin peaked in late April at around $29,300. It then shows theheadin the middle, where bitcoin topped at $31,000...
How To Place A TradeI find it very simple to place a trade on both MetaTrader platforms:From your MetaTrader platform click on the asset you want to trade In the ‘New Order’ pop-up enter the lot volume Adjust stop loss or take profit if you want to Select whether the order is ...
Wall Street has cheered Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s handling of the situation, which began with the surprise firing of OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman by the company’s board of directors late on Friday, Nov. 17, and concluded with Altman agreeing four days later to return to his role....
You won’t need to wait for Longhorn in late 2005 to get pop-up ad blocking in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft will release IE 6.05 as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), which is due in the first half of 2004. Whether IE 6.05 will include some of the other new...
we can see that we have had an incredible run. In order to determine if this trend is weakening, we need to look at what is happening with key sectors and sector rotation. Since the beginning of 2021, we have seen a rotation into commodity sectors which is typical of...
Investors can trade the VIX options and VIX ETFs during regular U.S. trading hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eastern time.9 The Bottom Line Volatility is a measure of dispersion seen in financial instruments. Volatility is represented by the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and investors h...
Since a bull put spread involves writing aput optionthat has a higher strike price than that of the long call options, the trade typically generates a credit at the start. The investor pays a premium for buying the put option but also gets paid a premium for selling a put option at a ...
You can implement virtually any strategy with weeklys that you can use with the longer-dated options. The weeklys are a bonanza for premium sellers who like to take advantage of the rapidly acceleratingtime decaycurve in an option's final week of its life. You can get paid 40 times per ...