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Risk Bubbles To The Surface: From The Nord Stream Sabotage, To The Near-Lehman Moment In Britain, Risk Is On The Rise.
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 11:23am | 797Market Bounces Despite Increasing Risks Despite the grim news this week, from the near-Lehman level crisis in Britain, to the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic, Tucker Carlson's Monologue On The Foreign Policy Consequences Of The Breaching Of The Nordstream Pipelines, The...
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EXCLUSIVE: Do Your Homework, Recognize Unfavorable Trading Conditions; Leif Soreide At 2022 FinTwit Conference
Sunday, May 15, 2022 - 9:46am | 760Trading is simple, but it’s not easy, and requires a lot of work. Preparation for tomorrow’s trading session begins at today’s close. The more work you put in after the close, the less thinking you will have to do after the open, Leif Soreide, Momentum/Breakout Stock Trader...
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Acreage Cannabis Grow Site in Sewell Delayed After Hurricane Ida Sweeps New Jersey
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 6:18pm | 499Tropical Storm Ida damaged Acreage Holdings Inc. (OTC: ACRGF) cannabis cultivation site in Sewell, South Jersey, delaying the company's cultivation plans. Acreage had planned to start producing marijuana at the site in early 2022. Now, that is “unlikely,” said Steve...
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What Will Be The Cost Of Doing Cannabis Business in Mexico...If The Country Finally Legalizes It?
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 - 3:42pm | 760Medical marijuana has been legalized in Mexico since June 2017 and, in 2018, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled that banning the plant was unconstitutional. On April 30, 2021, Mexico's Congress failed to pass adult-use legalization orders that were handed down by five Supreme...
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Thursday's Market Minute: Risk-On?!
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 9:23am | 325Stocks are extending their gains this morning after China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that the leaders of the U.S. and Chinese trade talks held a phone call in the morning and agreed to meet in early October for another round of negotiations. Bonds are falling with the inverse rates...
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Wednesday's Market Minute: Risk On
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 10:36am | 322The historical movements in markets have contained the phrase “risk-on” as investors are moving assets into equities and out of treasuries. The line has been blurred over the last 10 years as bonds have risen right along the Bull run we have seen in stocks. The appetite for the relative...
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The Meaning Of Risk-On, Risk-Off Investing
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 1:30pm | 627Risk literally is exposure to the chance of injury or loss. The term risk and markets are interwoven, given the inseparability of both. The markets play on the risk sentiment of traders, given their vulnerability to greed and fear — the two most common emotions that drive traders in their...
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Credit Suisse Clients Have Never Been More Confused About The Economy, Report Reveals
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 2:45pm | 425Equity research analysts at Credit Suisse stated that so many of their clients "do not know what is happening" in the global economy. The report added that U.S. investors were "clearly cautious," while European and Asian investors were "more constructive." The analysts concluded that their clients...
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4 Ways To Manage Risk In Your Portfolio
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 2:42pm | 901With the S&P 500 making new all-time highs on a weekly basis, many investors are starting to get nervous about stock prices. While no portfolio is entirely risk-free, there are several ways that every investor can keep risk in check. Here are four common ways to manage the risk in your...
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How Safe Are Low-Beta Stocks?
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 10:06am | 815Beta is one of the most commonly-used measures of a stock’s volatility. It will often be calculated and considered as a way to determine the “safety” of an investment or a portfolio. The idea is that risk exposure can be reduced during a market downturn by investing in low-beta...
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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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Alan Greenspan: Fear Drives the Markets
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 10:11am | 540On the way to completing his new book, The Map and the Territory, Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan had an epiphany. The epiphany, which Greenspan told The Wall Street Journal, “Upended my view of how the world works,” mostly...
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The Economy is On the Ropes and Going Down
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 2:17pm | 3336The risk faced by those who are analyzing macro trends is sounding like a broken record. For those younger readers who have no idea what that means, imagine an MP3 song that will stick on and endlessly repeat a random segment of the song you are listening to until you give your device a sharp knock...
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The perfect trade
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 1:42pm | 295The perfect trade We have identified resistance created by a previous area of support on our chart. We have also identified a possible area of support further down the chart as our possible target. We then enter a trade at £2 per point, we also enter our stop loss of 10 points. The trade starts to...