Short Selling

Order Types and Off-Screen Liquidity: What You See Isn't Always What You Get

As an experienced trader, you often start a trade by checking the three measures of liquidity—volume, open interest, and the bid/ask spread. If there are enough buyers and sellers, you assume the market is liquid enough to trade. If not, you might have trouble getting in or out of positions easily and efficiently, so you stay away.

How to Right-size Hedges Via Beta Weighting with XSP Options

To hedge a portfolio of individual stocks, notional value alone may not tell the whole story. The Cboe Mini-SPX Index options contract, known by its symbol XSP, allows right-sizing given its lower notional values.

Bitcoin ETFs

Bitcoin ETFs are a new, secure, and low-cost option for retail investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin.

Creating Your Own Trading Strategy

Creating your own strategy to trade with can be a great step on your investment journey. Before developing your first strategy, you need to know what to consider before you can come up with an effective one. Not every strategy will work for every trade, and not every trade is suitable for every investor.

What Are Money Market Funds?

Money Market Funds (MMFs) are savings pools that offer a safe place to park your cash while earning some interest.

Emotional Intelligence

As you begin your trading career, it is wise to recognize that we humans are pleasure seekers and emotional beings first and foremost. You cannot escape your psychology.