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Why tastyworks Is Taking The Name Of Parent And Financial Media Brand tastytrade
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 5:38pm | 300Tastyworks announced it would assume the name of its IG Group Holdings Inc.-owned parent and financial media company, tastytrade. Context: Since 2011, tastytrade advocated for and empowered individual retail investors. The firm’s founders, who previously created the...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For February 6, 2021
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 5:37pm | 1508'This Is Not The Market Participant's Problem': Volatility Arbitrage Trader Talks GameStop, Market Microstructure, Regulation The dynamics that transpired in GameStop can be traced back to factors like Federal Reserve stabilization efforts and low rates, which incentivize risk taking...
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Fintech Focus For February 5, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 6:53pm | 2031Quote To Start The Day: Robinhood Markets, GameStop Corp. and hedge funds are all on the wish list that House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters is assembling for a hearing that will dig into the Reddit-fueled stock trading that has shocked Wall Street and lawmakers. “I’m...
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Commission-Free Tastyworks Adds Crypto To Platform For Active Traders
Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 8:08am | 404tastyworks, a brokerage for the active trader, formally announced the launch of crypto trading on its award-winning technology platform. What Happened: tastyworks is a product of tastytrade, a holistic platform dedicated to challenging investors to think and trade strategically. In light of...
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Fintech Focus For December 22, 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 7:40pm | 1383Quote To Start The Day: Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Source: Maya Angelou One Big Thing In Fintech: Instead of focusing on growth at all costs, fintech startups have been drawing a path to profitability. It doesn’t mean that they’ll have a positive bottom line at the...
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Fintech Focus For August 6, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 10:37am | 1812Daily Perspective: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein Fintech Movers: PayPal executives said society has reached an "inflection point" when it comes to the "death of cash," and noted that 70% of consumers now fear for their health when...
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'Survivor Or Thriver': tastyworks Brings Fantasy Contests To The Stock Market
Friday, April 17, 2020 - 5:51pm | 319tastyworks, the leading options brokerage for active traders, alongside Andy and Landon Swan, the fintech entrepreneurs behind social sentiment data platform LikeFolio, formally announced the launch of Earnings Survivor, an exciting concept that merges the stock market with fantasy league. “...
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Options Trading: What Is It And How To Do It?
Saturday, March 28, 2020 - 7:22pm | 1471When it comes to speculation or hedging, options are capital-efficient tools that provide leveraged exposure in the markets, allowing traders to capitalize on their market opinions at a low cost. What Are Options? An option contract is a derivative of an underlying asset; it is an insurance...
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Tastytrade To Push Innovation, Accessibility With $20M Investment In Dough
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - 5:19pm | 199Tastytrade, a financial network, will invest $20 million in dough, a commission-free online broker. “The next generation of investors are looking for more than bare-bones investing and wealth management platforms targeting them with slick promotions only to leave them high and dry when it...