Accurate financial predictions are difficult at best. This is because uncertainty and risk are inherent characteristics of free markets. Fortunately, you can sway uncertainty in your favor by finding highly asymmetric investments and trading opportunities. Asymmetric...
The financial services industry offers a variety of trading software platforms for day traders, swing traders, and algo traders. As a trader or investor, you’ll often ask yourself how to know what stocks to buy? These platforms offer charting and technical analysis,...
If you are a high-income earner, you may be limited in what amount you can contribute to a Roth IRA, or not allowed to contribute whatsoever. Thanks to a tax loophole it is still possible to get your extra savings into a Roth IRA, with what is known as a Backdoor Roth...
Getting your kids in the habit of investing at an early age can help them maintain and grow their wealth once they start working. When it comes to investing, possibly the biggest factor that will create success is the time horizon. The longer your investment lasts,...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has imposed few restrictions on what can be held within a self-directed IRA (SDIRA), making this type of retirement account is a popular choice for investors. Stocks are one of the multitudinous assets allowed in self-directed IRAs....
A money market account (MMA) and a certificate of deposit (CD) are two financial products that generate interest income from cash savings. Both products can be thought of as fixed-income investments, like bonds, that provide predictable interest over a defined...
A variable annuity is a type of public annuity and investment vehicle whose value is tethered to the performance of an underlying investment portfolio. Investors close to retirement age often use variable annuities to ensure financial security and supplement their...
Private annuities are valuable tools for estate planning. In essence, a private annuity is an agreement between an individual (the “annuitant”) and the obligator to whom property is being transferred. As such, private annuities are one of the most important tools for...
Creating a successful business is no easy task. Some business owners work for years and never realize their dream of creating a successful venture. If your existing business is doing great but you have lost your passion for the industry you operate in, selling your...
The Guinness World Record holder for the pub with the longest name in Britain is the long-winded “The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn”. The sixteen-syllable business name is certainly not something you could say thrice quickly after several...
Arbitrage exploits inefficiencies in the market that otherwise wouldn’t exist under conditions of perfect interest rate parity. Without price inefficiency (i.e., market prices on one exchange not having caught up to the real market price reflected on another), there’s...
To understand what an alternative investment fund is, one must first understand what constitutes a conventional investment fund. An investment fund is a supply of capital pooled by several investors to purchase a basket of securities, of which each investor retains...