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 Volume means the number of Contracts that were agreed among traders. In other words, if today's Volume is 10,000, it means that 10 thousand contracts were traded today.
While the market Price represents the Demand and Supply Equilibrium, the Volume presents the number of contracts agreed. More..
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Open Interest (abbrev. OI) reflects the number of contracts opened in a specific market. If there is an Open Interest of 100 thousand in the Sept. Wheat, i.e. 100 thousand contracts was bought and selled from the time the market had been opened for trading to present day. More..
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CFD's - Contracts for Differences arised in early 90-ies in London. The essence of CFD's is in trading the price differences. CFD isn't associated with any ownership of the underlying asset, or any rights and obligations.
CFD on shares does not mean that we own a part of the company. CFD on commodity doesn't make us obliged to deliver or take delivery of the traded commodity. It could be said that CFD's is only a kind of bet, whether the price of the selected asset will rise or fall. Number of CFDs that can be traded, is therefore theoretically unlimited. More..
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For an active trader, but pretty much for every participant on the stock market, stock selection presents crucial part of the job. As a trader you want to be involved in active stock with decent moves history and high interest from other market makers instead of boring stock that rarely moves what can lead to your frustration and makes you do illogical, not very smart trades when you see what you want to see but what in fact is not there at More..
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In this theme we will go through one normal day in trader’s life. I would like to stress out that this article focuses specifically on day trading activities and is prepared for those that are trading on US Equity Markets.
It is general misunderstanding that trader comes to work just before the market opens, makes huge amount of money in a few minutes and then goes home. If it was like this than the number of traders would be probably at least ten times bigger than it is. Let me begin with general time frame and market activity throughout the day. More..
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Forex is a market where the foreign currencies are traded (Forex = Foreign Exchange). It consists of a large number of banks, investors, brokerage firms, funds, companies and so on. The market is not centralized. It is formed by bringing together a number of trading subjects and computers. It is an example of an OTC (Over the counter) market. The world's main financial centers are in following cities: Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris, London, New York. More..
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Break even point - BEP is one of the components of Money Management. It is a point where the costs equal income. Below the Break even point the trade is a loss, over the BEP we are in a profitable trade.
Break even point is used to determine the point when we can exit the trade so that we were on the basic level, without any loss, but also without any profit. It is also More..
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Margin is a financial amount that is blocked on our trading account by the Broker at the moment, when we enter a trade (i.e. when we buy or sell a contract).
Note: The Shares trading has a kind of different meaning for Margin. Traders have the term associated especially with money which the broker is willing to lend them. In this article, however, we describe margin, and its importance to Futures trading (e.g. comm.. More..
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ETF's are relatively new investment oportunities in the financial markets. ETF means Exchange Trade Fund. It gives the possibility to trade index/basket of selected underlying assets as a single Stock. ETF index tracking the S&P 500 is an example of such Exchange Trade Fund. It was also the first traded fund, introduced through State Street Global Advisors, on the AMEX exchange in 1993. Currently, there are several hundred different ETF's (there were 1171 ETF's in 2007, according to Morgan Stanley research). More..
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