Painting the tape is a form of securities fraud where participants create a false appearance of trading activity for a security by buying and selling the security among themselves. Painting the tape can attempt to artificially increase or decrease the price of a security through coordinated trading, or merely give the impression of a high […]
Blue sky laws are state laws focused on preventing securities fraud. While blue sky laws vary from state to state, they generally require a high degree of disclosure for any securities traded in the state and for any broker-dealers operating in the state to be registered and regulated. Purpose of Blue Sky Laws Most state […]
A block trade or block order is a large order usually placed by a hedge fund or large institutional investor. Mechanics of a Block Trade While direct block trades between buyers and sellers do occasionally occur, most block trades take place using a specialist intermediary known as a block house. The block house has traders […]
In the money is a term from options trading used to describe an option that would create value, but not necessarily profit, if exercised. It is not necessarily profitable because a trader needs to account for the premium spent to purchase the option, which being in the money has no bearing on. It just means […]
What’s up everyone? All right, so today is the first day of trading from southern California. Yesterday was a travel day. I flew from JFK to LA, and the reason I drive all the way down to New York is because they have a direct flight from New York to LA, and they have Delta […]
AutoShares is a full service firm that offers auto investing and trading brokerage services. Not only does the company provide access to markets, trade execution and trading technology but it also leverages the exceptional capabilities of Apex Clearing. This helps with the clearance of transactions and the protection of client’s funds and securities. What you […]
All right, everyone. We’re doing to do our midday market recap, go over the trades from this morning, finishing the day up $2,026.63, which is pretty good. ZZAN is one that I didn’t really capitalize on. I lost $107 on it, despite the fact that it’s up 33% today, just now breaking this little […]
All right, everyone. We’re going to do our midday market recap here for this morning. Today is actually the best day of the month. $4,607.41, but I’m not happy about it. I’m actually really quite frustrated about it. I’ve got $3200 in missing profits from my account this morning. How did that happen? Well, […]
A ratio spread is an options trading strategy that is used when a trader expects a low level of volatility in a security and their target strike price is unlikely to be exceeded by a significant degree. This expectation allows the trader to sell options with a different strike price to recoup a premium which […]
A position is delta neutral when the change in the value of one or more securities is exactly offset by a corresponding change in the value of the associated derivatives within the position. Traders use delta neutral positions either as a hedge in securities trading or as a strategy to profit from alternate sources of […]
