In finance and investing the term portfolio refers to the collection of assets one owns. Compared to just holding a single asset at a time a portfolio has a number of potential benefits...
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16 October 2014, 11:41
Portfolio trading involves the execution of a basket of securities simultaneously...
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16 October 2014, 11:37
Welcome to The Traders Podcast, starring Rob Booker. In Episode 298, Rob starts off by talking about some New York Times headlines, which he quickly transposes into analogous trading metaphors...
Weekly Trends
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16 October 2014, 11:09
BEHIND the spate of market turmoil lurks a worry that top policy makers thought they had beaten back a few years ago: the spectre of deflation...
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16 October 2014, 10:55
Dubai: UAE’s fast diversifying financial services sector has led Abu Dhabi-based brokerage ADS Securities to invest in and develop a new trading platform that would allow it to tap into the high frequency traders segment...
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15 October 2014, 17:35
I present you with my restructured project on options trading and scenario analysis. You are more than welcome to try it out. Firstly, I will give a small presentation that will reveal what you can do with it and whether you need to continue reading...
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15 October 2014, 11:37
This is a follow up on my previous post “A Simple Shiny App for Monitoring Trading Strategies“. I added a few improvements that make the app a bit better (at least for me!). Below is the list of new features : A sample...
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15 October 2014, 11:29
So several weeks ago, I decided to listen on a webinar (and myself will be giving one on using quantstrat on Sep. 3 for Big Mike’s Trading, see link). Among some of those talks was a trading system called the “Trend Turn Trade Take Profit” system...
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15 October 2014, 11:26
"Trifles make perfection and perfection is not trifle." The major U.S. stock market indexes took a dive Monday, marking a three day downward trend for stocks driven by unease over Federal Reserve monetary tightening and a tumultuous global economy. The S&P 500 closed at 1,875, down 1...
Market News
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15 October 2014, 11:17 #stocks
On 13th October, 2014. At 1532ET today (Columbus Day - with half the market absent), someone - apparently having waited to see if the almost 'ubiquitous' 330pm Ramp would occur - decided it was time to dump three-quarters of a billion dollars notional of US equity market exposure in 1 second...
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15 October 2014, 11:06 #stocks