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What are margin utilization, a margin call, and a forced sale?

A leveraged investment allows you to buy a financial product by immobilizing only a percentage of its value (the margin). The additional cash needed to buy the position is given by Flowbank. An overnight financing fee is charged (for each ...

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What is a Trend Line? | Top Trendline Trading Strategies

Trendlines are one of the simplest, yet most powerful tools used by traders. Read on to learn what they are, tips for drawing them and to learn three powerful trendline trading strategies.

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What is a call option? | Chamath Naked Options Trade Example

Definition: What is a call option? Options are another way to express an opinion in financial markets, without day trading in the underlying asset.

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What is Tether? | Using Stablecoins | Is USDT a Bitcoin Scam?

As the dominant stablecoin used in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading, Tether has become hugely important. Here we explain how USDT works and discuss the company’s run in with the law.

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What is a Put Option? How 'Big Short' Michael Burry Shorted Tesla

It has been revealed that Michael Burry the investor of ‘Big Short’ fame has used put options to take a huge short position against Tesla. What are put options and how does Burry’s trade work?

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What is a stop loss in forex trading?

In forex trading, everybody wants to keep the wins and stop the losses. A stop loss order is a good tool to stop losses, especially for novice traders.

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What is a pip? | Pips in forex trading

Pips in forex trading stands for percentage in points. A pip measures the small price change of an exchange rate worth less than one unit of currency.

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What is the SNB?

The Swiss National Bank is the central bank of Switzerland. It is the institution responsible for regulating the country’s monetary policy and controlling inflation by issuing its currency and controlling interest rates.

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What is an Asset?

An asset is a resource with an economic value, which can be owned or controlled by an individual, a company, government, or another entity that is expected to generate gains in the future.

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What is a fractional share?

It is not rare for big name stocks to come with big price tags. As a result, not everyone can afford to buy the companies they like. Fractional share are portion of an stock or ETF, making the purchase of expensive stocks for individual investors ...

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What is a SPAC? The secret of these "blank check companies"

Special purpose acquisition company, synonym of “mountain of cash waiting for a merger”, has become an increasingly popular way for companies to go public. But how do they work, why do we use them, and what are their inherent risks?

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What is a gamma squeeze?

We have been seeing lots of action with the GameStop stock and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc stock going up recently as a result of retail investors coordinating to drive up the stock's price. The video game retailer rose by 400% in stock price. ...

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