Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the largest investment banks out there, its earnings coming from both traditional banking business, such as loans and deposits, as well as from stock trading. This bank also rates the exchange traded companies, releasing predictions other traders pay attention to.
Forex is the largest market across the globe that accounts nearly 90% of all capital markets. Its yearly turnover is ten times bigger than the overall world's GDP.
When it comes to margin, people who are not knowledgeable in trading usually think it's the difference between the buying and the selling price. While this is true for most other cases, in trading, margin means a collateral you've got to pay in order to open your position.
Many people don't understand how one could just go and eat at McDonald's every day, be it in the US or Europe. Everyone understand this is unhealthy and not appropriate for anyone who is on a diet. This may, yet, be explained with a very simple thing: McDonald's values the customer's time, i.e. you just get in, have your lunch quickly, and continue doing your business. With the advance of the web and mobile networks, many issues are resolved on the spot and take much less time, which means wasting time on making an order at a local restaurant and then waiting for that order is totally nonsense.
Most traders I have known want to absolutely conquer the market. Some succeed, but only every now and then, failing to turn this conquer into a permanent win. The reasons are many, from insufficient skills or experience all the way to the lack of the 'holy grail', with the 'not enough money' reason in between. Well, a good set of excuses. These reasons, however, are somewhat true, as all traders are different and use their trading potential differently.
Hedging risks is an essential ability for both new and advanced investors. Risk hedging is used when a trading system no longer works, and you've got to secure your capital against the volatile market conditions.
The last week Fed meeting decided on the key short term interest rates. The market players are always eying this event, focusing on the future economic outlook commentary.
If you are a beginner trader, you are sure to be asking a question to yourself: Which market to choose for trading?
In fact, fundamental analysis does not have any secrets as such. There are, however, a few rules one should stick to in order to keep their assumptions and conclusions logical.
Delta Airlines (NYSE: DAL) is one of the largest US air companies. Founded in 1924, it is headquartered in Atlanta, GA. The company owns 893 airplanes, all used for passenger shipping. Thankfully, Delta has never used Boeing 737 MAX 8, which is now under temporary ban after the accident in Ethiopia, which means the number of flights is not going to be reduced.
After doing some demo trading and conquering the virtual market, every trader starts sooner or later thinking about opening a real account and depositing their hard-earned money.
Professionals of currency and stock exchange markets have two completely different ways to analyze assets: fundamental and technical.
In 2018, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) booked its first net profit since the IPO. This could have pushed the price even higher and make the money flow rapidly into the stock, but in fact the rising tide active since 2010 stopped, while the bears were finally able to start their short selling. Tesla stock fundamentals Fundamentally, […]
On financial markets, no matter when, while working there or just getting to know them, investors will surely face such things as financial instruments. What are they? We’ll paint it in details. Financial instruments Financial instruments imply a wide range of terms and definitions. It’s very easy to see how numerous they are: they include […]
Forex exchange market (name derived from FOReign EXchange) is an international market meant for broker companies, banks and investment funds trading currencies. Currency exchange market formed in the 70-s when the financial world passed from the gold standard to free currency pricing.