A:It is a fact that most traders lose money with foreign exchange trading being the biggest culprit followed by futures, options, contracts for difference/spread betting and trading shares on margin. I feel that there are many reasons why people fail in this business and, as in most walks o...
Futuresand forwards are derivatives contracts that give counterparties the right to fix an exchange rate today to be executed at a future date. Swaps instead involve a series of payments over time. In general, swaps are used for longer-term strategic financial management, while forwards and futur...
and futures markets quite different from what we observe daily. Under such idealized conditions, the pricing of futures contracts would be a straightforward process, determined solely by two factors: the production schedule and the term structure of interest rates.6 ...
You can also save your charts or trading ideas, then play them forward after the trade has been closed. Click the play button on any of these charts and see it action. As you know, a trade can look much different before you enter a trade and after it has been seen to completion. So...
Why do informal markets resist formalizing, even when the gains of doing so outweigh its costs in the long run? While a number of responses to this questio
Futures, options, and spot currency trading have large potential rewards, but also large potential risk. You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them in order to invest in the futures and options markets. Don’t trade with money you can’t...
Pranay Kotasthane, Deputy Director and Chairperson of the High Tech Geopolitics Program at the Takshashila Institution said that the new policies could increase friction in international trade for India. He stated that small orders made by Indian startups could be fulfilled easily, but any attempts...
Here’s Robert Parker’s review, though I think he no longer tastes many of the wines himself (he became a mini wine empire). When I developed my taste for wine, Parker was my guru, and thanks to him I bought my first Bordeaux futures—in the great vintage of 1982. His site rates...
I am from Canada & does not really care which party wins. It could be Trump or it could be Biden, but the US economy will continue to prosper immaterial of who is elected. The stock market & other financial markets (Forex, Futures) does not care who will be elected. Their long term...
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to be commodities. The SEC’s refusal to allow bitcoin ETFs thus has nothing to do with bitcoin’s underlying nature: like gold, silver, and the rest, it is legally a commodity. Rather, the reason that the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, the first of ...