At the end of last year, the technology sector was one of the hardest hit areas of the stock market. Most of the best-known names in the sector dropped 20% or more before the end of 2018. Two of the segments of the tech sector that were the hardest hit were Semiconductors and Software companies, […]
Read MoreThe market is off to a shaky start this week, as the market digested less impressive earnings results from companies like Caterpillar (CAT), along with gloomy forecasts from Nvidia (NVDA). A slowing economic climate in China was cited as a big cause in both cases, which fueled concerns that the longer trade concerns last, the […]
Read MoreMost long-term investors put a heavy emphasis on fundamental analysis to help guide their decisions about what stocks they should pay attention to. In that vein, one of the big questions that most investors like to try to answer is what kind of returns they can realistically expect over time. That might sound funny since […]
Read MoreThe market’s volatility over the past year, and certainly since the latter part of 2018, certainly reinforces how critical it is to understand how margin and put selling work together. With that in mind, today I’d like to go over a put sale trading example using margin (keep in mind, please, the numbers I’m about […]
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