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How to trade forex by Support and Resistance LevelsDoes a There is major/strong and minor/weak resistance and support level. Major or strong level is the one that will have a higher impact on the price when the price reaches this level. Minor or weak levels will have lower impact on the price...

The way to get better fills is to use an order type foreign to most traders, limit orders. This ensures that you will get filled at your price or better because a limit order is instruction to do just that, “buy or sell at the price you select OR BETTER.” This means you cannot get filled for...

From my past experience, my favorite broker is Thinkorswim on TD Ameritrade. The platform comes with useful trading tools, the site is user-friendly, they offer 24/7 customer service, and there’s no minimum deposit to open your account. The second one is Interactive Broker, IB. For more...

The difference between pips and pipette. i.e. 1.15794 – 1.15791 = 0.00003 0.3 pips or 3 pipette

Market execution is the execution at the market conditions. Market condition can be varied and can be in your favor or against you. Please find a broker that will have less price change so you can trade with your strategy and the end results do not carry too much. Market conditions change on the...

Time decay and delta on far out Leaps will be roughly similar and thus the higher cost of the longest dated Leaps is not worth paying for sounds plausible due to the exponential nature of time decay. However, I would like to test this thesis. As the 2009 Leaps are now so close and I don’t have...

A poor man’s covered call is similar to a common covered-call strategy, with one exception as follows: Buys an in-the-money LEAPS call and sells a near-term out-of-the-money call against it, rather than buying the stock. LEAPS are options contracts with an expiration date longer than one year...

GameStop (GME) stock is on a wild ride recently following some recent drama on the WallStreetBets (WSB) Reddit. Here’s everything investors need to know about the WSB and GME stock drama. Starting off, WSB is a subreddit focused on boosting up shares of stocks before selling them off for...

A short squeeze forms when a stock accelerates in price so fast that the short sellers are forced to cover their positions

Interactive Brokers - Interest Charged on Margin Loans IB provides lower interest rate on margin loan among many Brokers. Interactive Brokers - Interest Charged on Margin Loans BM = Benchmark Rate CURRENCY TIER RATE CHARGED: IBKR PRO RATE CHARGED: IBKR LITE USD 0 ≤ 100,000 1.59% (BM +...

“Cash bonds” means you are buying the underlying securities. Some broker-dealers, such an Interactive Brokers, IB have institutional grade platforms for transacting in the Treasury cash bond market. IB provide leverage in low costing. Using leverage is risky because it has to be managed...

Many people asked: Should I use leverage to increase bond yield? In my opinion using leverage to buy bonds is just as risky as buying stocks using margin. In fact its even more risky considering its harder to liquidate your bond holdings like stock. Interest rate can change very violently in...

Important points to Invest in Bonds Make a ladder your maturities. i.e. buy 1-year, 5-year and 10-year bonds. If rates go up – as they will eventually – your bond prices will fall, temporarily. But you will get your principal back at maturity and be able to reinvest your principal at higher...

Hope you guys enjoy Mark Minervini shares some of his recent trades and the technical reasons for entering them

I add one more point: Expensive doesn't mean it's good.