What is Tax Loss Harvesting? Tax loss harvesting is when an investor sells a position at a loss to help offset capital gains tax liabilities at the end of the year. To understand what tax loss harvesting is, let’s create a hypothetical portfolio. It’s December 15, and the following is your portfolio: Here’s […]
The debate over the relative merits of simple moving average (SMA) and exponential moving average (EMA) is a contentious one. Day traders and investors alike often miss out when they choose one over the other. In this post, we lay out the differences and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. We are also […]
If you’re wondering what position trading is, you have come to the right place. Position trading can be appealing for a number of reasons. Stock traders who want to take a hands-on approach to trading may be drawn to the research and various strategies needed to be an efficient position trader. But is position […]
It’s Thanksgiving this week, which means we can expect a pretty tame and boring week of trading, as most of Wall Street is more worried about their travel plans than taking risks that might put their job in jeopardy. Markets are closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving, and close early at 1:00 pm EST on […]
Iris Energy Limited (NASDAQ: IREN), an Australian company that has been mining bitcoin since 2019, is the latest of its kind to go public. The company made its Wall Street debut on Wednesday, Nov. 17. Iris priced its initial public offering at $28 a share Tuesday evening, raising at least $231.5 billion at a […]
Most traders agree that a trending market is easier to trade than a range-bound market. Once you hop aboard a trend, you pretty much just have to trail a stop and ride the gains. Sure you deal with plenty of whipsaws and failed pullbacks, but there are far fewer variables in a trending market […]
Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are key players in today’s financial markets. These state-controlled entities are means through which nations make investments, by squirrelling away excess revenues. They are mostly based in emerging markets and are meant to provide long term economic stimulus or bring stability to the finances of a government. But despite sharing […]
If you follow the US real estate market at all, you’ve probably heard about these “iBuyer” (instant buyer) programs started by some of the large real estate data companies like Zillow and Opendoor. The idea is that these firms hire really smart quantitative researchers who can create real estate pricing models that can accurately […]
You’ve probably seen headlines like “Rivian Files S-1 With SEC to Go Public,” and wondered what an S-1 filing is. You see, if you want to sell a security like a stock or bond to the US public on an exchange like the NYSE, you have to register those securities with the SEC. And […]
The basic idea behind a pullback trade is to try to enter a strong established trend on short-term weakness, hoping the trend will continue after some momentary hiccups. Trend trading is a well-accepted trading strategy across all time frames. Institutions sell trend-following products to their clients to ride trends across several months or years, […]
