If you’re a beginner day trader and aren’t sure where to do your research, there’s no need to worry. Over 20 million forms with indispensable information from companies, brokerages, and individual brokers are available for free on the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) website. You can find information on initial public offerings (IPOs), bankruptcies, mergers, […]
The uranium market has made legendary price moves throughout August and September 2021 after spending several years as a forgotten commodity, dormant in a bear market. Uranium producers suffer from a problem familiar to commodity producers in secular bear markets: their cost of production is above the spot price of the commodity. They find […]
By now, most active traders are well aware of a Chinese real estate company called Evergrande. Everyone in the financial media is panicking about the company’s danger to the global financial system, with the company earning the moniker “the Chinese Lehman,” as a reference to devastating effects investment bank Lehman Brothers’ collapse had on […]
What Are Inverse ETFs? Inverse ETFs are a financial product that allow you to make bets against a specific asset like a sector, industry, index, commodity, etc without having to short anything. For example, if you invested in the ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQ) inverse ETF, you would make money when the NASDAQ 100 […]
As we have seen in the past decade, bull markets can last for a long period of time. But occasionally, a bull market will go too far ahead of itself and an unexpected slump in prices may happen. When stocks or other financial instruments experience a sudden drop in the middle of a bull […]
You might be reading this and wondering, I’ve heard of initial public offerings or IPOs, but what is uplisting? Chances are, if you’ve been day trading for any length of time, you’ve bought or sold OTC stocks, which are generally too small to meet the stringent requirements needed to list on a formal exchange […]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), the US automobile regulator, has opened an investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot feature based on twelve crashes in which Teslas with Autopilot enabled crash into emergency vehicles. The NHTSA is asking Tesla for specific information on how Autopilot responds to emergency vehicles, as well as a barrage of […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange and Commission (SEC) is considering a full ban on a controversial practice in the brokerage industry, known as payment for order flow (PFOF), according to Chairman Gary Gensler, who was recently interviewed by Barron’s. On Aug. 30, the day Barron’s published the interview, Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) stock plunged […]
The hip Greek yogurt maker Chobani is prepping for an IPO later this year, according to reports that they’ve filed confidentially with the SEC. Reports say that the IPO could value the company at up to $10B. Most of the time, the IPO of a company that sells 150-gram yogurt cups wouldn’t be the […]
The US stock market is one of the most traded markets in the world but how can international traders gain access to the US markets? Market Overview The U.S. stock market is an exchange where traders and investors converge to buy and sell shares of publicly traded companies. The shares of stock that these […]
