Day Trader
A Day Trader is a non-professional whom trades financial products in his own account. A Day Trader usually begins each trading period with his entire trading account and margin in Cash. He then enters and exits More...
Commercial Paper
Commercial Paper is a form of short term debt that is issued without collateral. It is usually used as short term financing for highly credit worthy corporations. Commercial paper can be issued by companies in More...
CD Ladder
A CD Ladder is an investment strategy in which a series of fixed income investments such as CDs are structured to maximize liquidity and interest income. For example an investment of 60,000GBP could be made by investing More...
The Currency War of the World
The onset of the Great Recession of 2008 proved to the world the un-sustainability of too much debt and too much leverage. The first phase of the crisis witnessed concerted and coordinated action by the Central More...
Base Metals
The term Base Metals refers to the group of industrial metals that are traded in the open market that exclude the precious metals. Whereas precious metals include Gold, Silver, and Platinum (metals difficult to More...
Balance Sheet
The Balance Sheet is the section of the financial statements that lists and gives summary of a company’s assets, liabilities, and statement of equity. The key to analyzing the Balance Sheet is that it measures More...
Back Testing
Back Testing refers to the testing out of a financial theory with historical data. Many times the financial theory is a quantitatively based trading program. In this case, the trading concept would be programmed More...
Accumulation Period
The Accumulation Period is the time during which an investment product with a future structured payout is open to a build up assets for future distribution. An example would be a fixed annuity that is purchased More...
Paul Krugman – Iconoclast or Establishment Figure?
The battle between Keynesians and limited government advocates has been raging ever since the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The ongoing global economic crisis has given fresh impetus to the debate More...
TV junkies get their fix through Netflix
Question: How does one overdose on their favourite TV series’? Answer (up until now): Buy the DVD box sets or order them as premium customers off internet streaming sites like Netflix, Hulu Plus or Amazon. Everything More...