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Understanding Stock Borrows
Introduction to Stock Borrows Stock borrows are the acts in which a brokerage loans out shares of a stock to an investor. Most often, traders borrow stocks in order to sell them short, buying additional shares at a lower price to return the borrowed stock. Just as in...
How to Read and Apply the ATR Indicator for Stock Trading
The average true range is a technical indicator that measures volatility of a market based on the range and price movement of the market. It is purely derivative of price, unlike something like implied volatility. The indicator was developed by technical analyst...
Interview and Live Broadcast with @Modern_Rock of My Investing Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgxq489ohXY This webinar is presented by SpeedTrader, Inc., a registered broker-dealer, member FINRA, SIPC. This webinar is offered for informational and educational purposes only. The guest speakers are not employed by, registered...
What are Clearing Firms and Why Do They Matter?
Introduction Clearing firms, also known as clearing corporations or clearing houses, handle the back-end operations behind making securities trades actually happen once a trade is submitted. Essentially, clearing firms make sure that your money and stocks make it to...
Understanding the “Greeks” in Options Trading
Even for experienced options traders, understanding the relationship between how an option changes in price and how its underlying stock changes price can be difficult. To make prediction easier, traders turn to a set of variables – vega, delta, gamma, theta, and rho...
How to Find Stocks to Trade and Maximize Your Profits w/Jerremy of Real Life Trading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeuADosREDs This webinar is presented by SpeedTrader, Inc., a registered broker-dealer, member FINRA, SIPC. This webinar is offered for informational and educational purposes only. The guest speakers are not employed by, registered...
Margin Trading for Beginners
What is Margin Trading? Margin trading is trading using money borrowed from your broker. Effectively, it can be thought of as taking out a loan from your broker. Although buying and selling on margin does not provide leverage in and of itself, it can be used as a form...
How to Read Stock Market Options Chains
Options Trading Stock options are a financial product in which a buyer and seller agree to trade a stock at a set price between the start of the agreement and a set expiration date. In this case, traders are not actually purchasing a stock itself, but rather taking...
Introduction to Elliot Wave Analysis
Back in the 1930’s, accountant Ralph Nelson Elliot discovered something about the stock market – it responds in a repeating pattern to large-scale optimism and pessimism by investors. Elliot spent the following decade building out his theory, describing how the...
SpeedTrader Adds DBOT Route
At SpeedTrader, we're committed to bringing our traders the best tools and resources on the market. We're constantly adding new tools for active traders. Earlier this year, we introduced SpeedTrader Elite and our Short List Search tool. Today, we're excited to...