A broker is an intermediary who performs orders on behalf of a client, and takes a fee for doing so (regardless of whether the trade is profitable or not). Brokers usually have fixed trade commissions...
A 'bull' is any investor or firm which believes that the financial markets (or any asset within them) is going to rise in value. They are typically seen as the optimists of the financial world.In the ...
An Exchange Traded Fund, or ETF, is a synthetic asset which is designed to track the price of an index or commodity. ETFs can be bought and sold on a stock market like any other asset, even thoug...
High-Frequency Trading (or HFT) is the method of trading utilizing computer-automated algorithmic software to buy and sell assets. This software runs extremely complex systems to determ...
An index is a measure of an economy and in financial terms, it is a synthetic (imaginary) portfolio which aims to represent a specific market. As this is just a benchmark and aims to only represent th...
Liquidity is a term which refers to the ease and speed with which an asset can be converted into cash. A liquid asset will be exchangeable for cash very quickly with no loss in value, whilst an illiqu...
The richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, has lost over $18 billion in the past month, and $7 billion in paper wealth overnight. In the past year, he lost $7 billion, dropping from a $135 billion net ...
On Wednesday (Jan. 15), a news release by XPO Logistics (NASDAQ: XPO) revealed that the company was considering some strategic alternatives, including an option of spinning-off some of its business un...
10-Year Treasury Note is simply a debt obligation issued by the United State government which allows a 10 years maturity once it is issued. In the note, the debtor is expected to pay a fixed amount ev...
What is Backtesting?Backtesting refers to the process of applying an analytical method or trade strategies on the existing model in order to observe how accurately the strategies would predict or dete...