Earnings Per Share (EPS) can be defined as a portion of a company’s profit allocated to a person’s share of the stock. It is also the market prospect ratio used to measure the net income earned per share of stock outstanding and helps to show how profitable a company has become especially on the shareholder’s […]
The open interest for an option is the total number of outstanding or open, not delivered or closed, options or futures contracts that are in effect on any given day, to be delivered at a particular date. It is most often associated with the options and futures markets, where the existing number of contracts will change […]
A profit/loss ratio is a measure of the ability of a particular trading system to generate profit instead of loss. A system’s profit/loss ratio is calculated by taking the average profit from all winning trades divided by the average losses on all losing trades over an arbitrary period of time. Many novice investors appreciate the […]
In trading, dead cat bounce refers to a temporary recovery that happens after a long decline which is usually followed by a downtrend. It can be defined as the chart phenomenon that happens during bearish moves. Basically, it is a long awaited correction from a brutal bearish trend. As a market jargon, it is a […]
An exchange traded fund, or ETF, is a marketable security tracking bonds, commodities or other baskets of assets, such as an index fund. Unlike a mutual fund, ETFs trade just like the shares of an equity stock on stock exchanges. An Exchange Traded Funds will undergo price changes over time as they are traded on […]
When it comes to profiting from stock movement, there are different strategies which can be used thanks to their ability in combining buy and sell call and put options. This can happen at different strike prices and expiration dates. One common strategy is known as a butterfly spread. In day trading, a call refers […]
Collars are protective strategies involving options that are used after a long position in a security has already achieved a significant increase. Investors use the collar strategy through the purchase of out-of-the-money put options and the selling of out-of-the-money call options. This techniques is also known as hedge-wrapping. In general investing terms a collar is […]
The whole point of investing is to find an investment trading at a price that is either too high or too low from where it should be. One who can capitalize on this can start to make a lot of money for themselves. The trouble is trying to determine when a price is out of […]
Perhaps one of the scariest sounding terms on Wall Street is the “death cross”. That combines two words that you never want to hear in your everyday life, but they have a particular meaning on Wall Street. If you play it a certain way you may even be able to profit from it. The […]
When it comes to trading, numerous strategies can be used with the aim of financial success. They (strategies) are designed to achieve profitable returns by either going long or short in the markets. For a strategy to be termed as good, it should be verifiable, consistent and objective. What is a straddle? This refers […]
