There’re many different factors that shape and alter your overall electricity price. Of course, most people want a cheap and easy deal but today these can be harder and harder to come by. Whether it’s economic shifts, worldwide events or just seasonal, electricity prices constantly fluctuate. Here are some of the factors that drive electricity […]
Financial Markets
Global InterGold Offers Tips for Protecting Wealth from Economic Uncertainty
With the long-term value of the dollar and other fiat currencies constantly being questioned by pundits and financial analysts, the average investor certainly has a legitimate reason to be concerned about how they’re storing their wealth. After all, nobody wants to spend their entire life amassing a savings in fiat currency, only to have those […]
CFD Trading Tips: Professionals Come After You
This is the place where you come if you want to build a solid foundation that can be used for CFD commodities, shares and index trading. Or better, let’s just say for any global market. It doesn’t really matter if you want to find some tips to apply to a live account or a demo […]
Stocks – Contracts for Difference
In his book Accounting for Investments, Equities and Options R. Venkata Subramani states that “A contract for Difference (CFD) is a contract between two parties – buyer and seller – stipulating that the seller will pay to the buyer the difference between the current value of an underlying equity share and its value at expiry date […]
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Book Review
“Several years before the financial crisis descended on us, I put forward the concept of “black swans”: large events that are both unexpected and highly consequential. We never see black swans coming, but when they do arrive, they profoundly shape our world: Think of World War I, 9/11, the Internet, the rise of Google. In […]
The Art of Short Selling – Book Review
Kathyrn F. Stanley’s “The Art of Short Selling” is considered one of the most important finance books of all time. Short selling is a niche within niches. It is a high stake game with high rewards, but not everyone can play it well. One of the most famous examples of short selling was by George […]
Top 5 online courses for becoming an expert stock trader
It’s easy to be drawn to the hustle and bustle of the stock market. And it’s no wonder. Forbes ranks a career as a financial analyst as “one of the top-paying entry-level jobs on the market.” These days, you don’t need a degree in business or a ton of experience to start building effective strategies […]
How to Get Historical Bond Prices and Yields Data?
While we know that there are many sources to get the historical prices for stocks and mutual funds such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance, getting the historical bond prices and yield data is more complicated. Here we will highlight some of the methods you can use to get such data. FINRA Site On the […]
Stock Market Functions (SMF) Add-in – Get Financial Data in Excel
Over the past couple of days I’ve been looking for various tools that could help us extract stock markets data in excel. I’ve earlier talked about the MarketXLS excel add-in which is also a very powerful add-in. Today I wanted to highlight the SMF Add-in which I came across just a few days back. I […]
How to Judge Short Covering
The stocks in the short term gyrates due to demand supply situation. Several factors contribute to vigorous movements of High Beta stocks or in other way it could be said that the volatility measure or Standard Deviation of these kinds of stocks would be high. Technical Analysis indicators come handy for these kind of stocks. […]