Rules and Risks
How the Pattern Day Trader rule is harmful rather than helpful. Butterfly spreads. Early assignment risk from short call options on ex-dividend dates.…
Up on escalators, down in elevators.
I've had a lot on my mind the past few days as I'm sure many others have had as well. As I am checking in with the markets this Sunday evening it seems the pain is certainly not over. Device addiction How many people are going to read about the…
Making Sense of Market Madness
Pension fund driven EOY/EOQ rebalancing? makes sense. Plunge protection team operations? Let's hope not. Algorithmically-driven predatory price discovery targeting protections put on by the retiree turned gambler? You betcha!…
Bitcoin Futures. The Beginning of the End.
A digital currency created in order to eliminate greedy middlemen ultimately comes to be controlled by those very same middlemen because of the same greed.…
The Psychology of Market Madness
In seven short hours, they'd been conditioned to think of the chips as ATMs that spat out twenties, and even though their rational minds knew better, their hearts were all telling them to corner the chip…
Stocks on Blocks
Securities trading based on blockchain technology is coming sooner than many realize. Projects are already launching across the globe. Since there appears to be no similar endeavors in the US, probably due the fact that implementing this technology would benefit the actual investors, I think I may have found my…
Quotes
BTC and Others by TradingView Futures by TradingView Cryptocurrency Markets by TradingView…
The Modern Trading Floor
For those who don’t realize that the NASDAQ is actually found off the side of the I-95 in NJ just south of Secaucus, you are going to have your mind blown.…