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Bitcoin Miners Rake In $55K Daily Despite Heat-Driven Hashrate Dip — Here's Their Secret
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 8:37am | 786Despite a 3% drop in Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) network hashrate in June, daily miner revenues soared to approximately $55,300 per exahash per second (EH/s), one of the highest profitability levels this year, according to a commentary shared with Benzinga by the analytics team of TeraHash, a global...
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3 Most Popular ETFs To Short To Hedge Your Bullish Bets
Monday, July 17, 2017 - 1:43pm | 422The more aggressive an investor’s bullish stock positions are, the more cognizant they must be of risk management. With the stock market within a stone’s throw of all-time highs, bullish investors are right to be a bit uncomfortable about going all-in on the stock market. One of the...
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The Right China ETFs For January...Maybe
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 2:49pm | 604Chinese equities started 2016 on an inauspicious note when stocks in Shanghai plunged 7 percent Monday, prompting the closure of equity markets in the world's second largest economy. That glum start to the new year would seem to indicate the right way to play Chinese stocks is with an inverse...
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The Right Way To Trade Options
Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 12:06pm | 450Randy Frederick says that people probably use to think that options traders were always speculating, taking a lot of big risks and putting a lot of money down waiting for big gambles to pay off. Frederick is the managing director for trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab. He recently joined...
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The Art Of Hedged Swing Trades
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 4:30pm | 409One of the hardest parts of trading is building a strategy that will succeed in multiple market conditions. In an exclusive interview with Benzinga, Rob Friesen, president of proprietary trading firm Bright Trading, revealed how hedged swing trades have been widely successful for traders he...
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How Spread Strikes And Widths Are Set And Nadex Spread Basics
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 4:21pm | 1196Nadex spreads offer unique trading opportunities. A spread is a simple derivative of an underlying market, with a designated floor and ceiling level and an expiration time. Traders can enter any time after the spread starts and can exit before it expires. Derivative means the price is derived...
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Market Wrap For December 30: Markets Quiet Ahead of New Year's Eve
Monday, December 30, 2013 - 5:41pm | 1239As to be expected for this time of the year, volume was light today with little market moving data or news released. Major indices were virtually flat as Tuesday will mark the final trading session of 2013. Markets will close tomorrow at 4:00 pm EST and remain closed until Thursday morning....
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Buying VIX Calls as a Portfolio Hedge
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 10:22am | 3269By: Jim Fink, Investing Daily Because VIX calls are based on VIX futures instead of the more volatile “spot” VIX, in the past I suggested that it would be easier to hedge a portfolio against a “black swan” stock market decline using S&P 500 puts–either...