diversification

This article is the first of six on the topic of using options to swing trade. After laying out the reasons for using options in your swing trading program, the next five articles discuss: the long option method long and short calls or puts in combination short options only variable weighting on...

By Robert A. Green, CPA and founder and CEO of Green & Company Inc. (GreenTraderTax.com and GreenTraderFunds.com) Traders may not realize it, but they are entrepreneurs. It's wise for traders to learn and follow entrepreneur business axioms. What counts most are bottom-line net profits and...

Jason Zweig had a column up over the weekend that included the following observation; It thus takes roughly 40 large stocks today to equal the diversification benefit investors got from just 20 stocks in the early 1990s, warns Mr. Sullivan of the Financial Analysts Journal. Anyone who doesn't use...