Archive for September, 2009

A simple investment ought to be conceptually easy to understand, have known and easily computed outcomes, and have a relatively short time horizon so holding period returns are easy to compute. A new type of trading security called a binary option is filling that bill nicely for day traders. With a 60% plus yield...

I got turned on to forex option trading a short while ago. I had long studied foreign exchange rates, understood cross rates, purchasing power and the like, but I'd never been able to come up with the cash to make use of that knowledge. Then one day I

Isn't the goal of high rate investments to provide a high rate of return for a given amount of risk? Why is it these days that so many investors (myself included) have vested our money into mutual funds, index funds, and all sorts of employee stock option plans only to be shafted in...

Someone asked, "...to be making money trading options, how much capital do you need?" I answered, "It depends on what type of options you want to trade." It's true. Some types of options trading requires a decent sized mound of capital, some requires $100 to start. I predominantly feature the low capital ways to...