It’s not your father’s stock market anymore. Gone are the three martini lunches with your stockbroker, or sitting in the brokerage lobby with a copy of the Wall Street Journal and a cup of Joe.
The Journal is still there, and so is the joe – it has the name “Starbucks” on the side of [...]

The human mind can only handle so much within a given timeframe. Sometimes the financial markets move faster than the mind’s ability to keep up, which is why, given the available state of technology, some of those minds have been busy creating software to do the job.
The automated systems, which include stock trading systems [...]

Before drilling down into the steps required to successfully engaging in day trading options contracts, let’s assume you know what an option even is. That you know a put from a call, and perhaps the slang terms for the various combinations of contracts on either side of the strike price that allow you hedge [...]

Bear markets are bad. Unless you’re bigger, smarter and badder than the bear.
Which means, there are ways to take advantage of a bear market – a market heading south, with no real signs of turning around in the near term – and actually make money while all around you are losing theirs.
Or at [...]