Posts Tagged ‘Futures’

You Will Never Make Money Trading Stocks, Futures Or Forex Part 1

You may think you know what a CFD, a currency pair, or an option is, but you probably don’t know anywhere near as much as you should. For example, trading a CFD and an option using the same outlay can result in two completely different scenarios; the CFD can take out your initial outlay, plus [...]

The Role of a Cta, Commodity Trading Advisor

Commodity Trading Advisor, Genuine Trading Solutions, a registered CTA with the CFTC, says the role today of a CTA is constantly evolving.
 
Dwayne Strocen, President of Genuine Trading Solutions says once upon a time a Commodity Trading Advisor was content to be known as a Portfolio Manager trading commodities and futures for a managed [...]

Futures & Options For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) (Paperback)

The days of buying and holding stocks and mutual funds for years are gone; nowadays, futures and option markets offer some of the best opportunities to make money trading in volatile times. But like all investments, high risk is involved, and in order to become a successful trader you must be prepared to [...]

Forex Trading an Overlooked But Very Lucrative Market

One of the most appealing ways to attain wealth is to play the stock market. With the advent of the Internet and on line brokers traders have seemingly unrestricted access to various trading products that just 10 years ago were reserved for big financial institutions. A trading product that has been overlooked by many traders [...]

Arbitrage: Bonds, Stocks, Derivatives, Commodities and Currencies

Arbitrage is the purchase or sale of any financial instrument and the simultaneous taking of an equal and opposite position in a related market, in order to take advantage of small price differentials between markets. When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal [...]

What are financial derivatives

Stock markets have always been volatile, but in the current financial environment, volatility in currencies, interest rates, bonds and stocks is completely new. New variables have been added to the assessment of risk that organizations undertake, thus making essential for companies to find new methods of protecting their assets against sharp fluctuations. This simple need [...]

Trading Financial Derivatives – Futures, Swaps, and Options in Therory and Application (Mass Market Paperback)

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Are Futures Riskier Than Options

Let’s face it, derivative trading is risky. Period.
Derivatives such as futures and options are leverage instruments and by virtue of being leverage instruments, derivatives inherently carry more risk and exposure than pure and simple stock trading. Leverage instruments are risky because leverage allows you to do more with the same amount of money than you [...]