FAANG+ Index
The stocks that make the up the FAANG+ Index are major drivers of the NDX.
Where Index Returns Come From?
With monotonous regularity, I will see a financial planner or broker put up a chart such as the one below and then loudly proclaim that you never have to worry just buy things and hang onto them because the market always goes up. However, this does raise the question of what exactly drives the market…
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Another One Bites The Dust
The headline below popped up on my Twitter feed. The article sits behind a paywall so the first and easiest thing to do was to look up the performance of NOPE ETF. The performance can be seen below. It’s not hard to see why they want to shut it – what is more interesting is…
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Covered Call Funds – A Stupid Idea
Recently my spam filter caught an email extolling the virtues of covered call funds. I have been aware of these sorts of funds for a while but have never paid them much attention for reasons that will become apparent in this piece. The website I referenced defines a covered call ETF as the following –…
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The Big Picture
Unfortunately, most of the material you encounter regarding trading is skewed towards ever decreasing time frames. This is probably reflective of the capacity of data to now be broken easily into time frames, the profoundly short attention span of the majority of traders, and the inability to step back and look at the bigger picture.…
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The Folly Of Attachment
The act of trading requires traders to perform certain feats of mental gymnastics that at times seem to generate a paradox. You have to have sufficient conviction with a signal to both take a trade and hold a trade against the noise of the market but at the same time have so little conviction that…
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Light Up Your Trading World
In this episode, Louise Bedford is interviewed by Jason Cunningham on his Save My Business podcast. Jason and Louise sit down to discuss Louise’s career, her insights on the world of trading, and her tips for success.
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The Market Will Tell You Everything
One of the key behaviours traders should get into is revising their past trades to see what lessons can be taken from them. These lessons should be viewed through the lens of a simple question – are you listening to the market or are you in some way attempting to impose your opinion on it?…
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