short selling

Short Selling Explained: What is Short Selling
What is short selling? Why do we care? Short selling allows an investor to make money on both sides of the market action. Learn how shorting selling works and why you would short a stock. The rules and risks are also explained.

Intermediate Setups and Creating a Bias Part 1
Learn how to create setups and bias using trendlines and the moving averages (10,20ema).

Buying and Selling With the Trend
For trend trading, I recommend using 5 minute charts – if not a longer time frame. If you use too short of a time frame you will encounter a lot of ‘trading noise’.

Fundamental Analysis: Quantitative Factors, Short Interest
What could possibly cause a stock to double its value in one day? The answer: the short squeeze. We will now analyze this interesting phenomenon by looking at the underlying cause of such a boost which is the "short interest".

Day Trading: The Art of Controlling Your Emotions Part 1
If you have not yet experienced day trading let me walk you through a typical trade and the emotions you will feel.

Day Trading Rules Part 2: Setup Short
Learn the precise moment to enter a short position with these basic short entry rules for day trading.

CFD Trading: Calculating Overnight Interest Payments (Financing fees) with example
Learn how to calculate overnight CFD interest (financing fees) for a long position. If we trade our CFD intra-day, we do not pay financing fees.

CFD Trading: CFD real life examples with calculations (Long & short)
Here are some real life CFD trading examples. First we will examine a long CFD and then finish with a short example where we anticipate a drop in the market.

What are CFD's? Why Trade them?
What are CFD's? Why Trade them? the leverage can be 20 times or greater that of the asset holder. With so many advantages attached with a Contract For Difference, they are definitely worth further investigation.

CFD Margin Requirements - Initial and Variation Margin.
Buying a Contract For Difference uses margin to create massive leverage. The two types of margin that exist are initial margin and variation margin.

The Pros & Cons of Trading CFDs
There are many reasons for an investor to trade CFD’s, and a couple of reason why they may choose not to use them. Here are a list of examples. A prudent investor will weigh out the pros and cons of this investment vehicle.