The Basic Trade A share is a holding of a company that varies in value based on the desire or need for that particular company’s goods or services. As a shareholder, your net worth increases and decreases based on taking a short position when values are high and a long position when prices are low. As long as the stock…
One of the best ways to invest in oil and gas is through royalties that offer wells already in production with rights to future production, all inside of one investment vehicle called a “Royalty Project”. 15% of the income is tax free due to the depletion allowance. Your money goes to work for you right away. A royalty interest is…
Day Trading Day traders take on some of the greatest market risk of all. Because day traders work with investments that change drastically within hours, they are by nature playing in the lion’s den. These stocks are extremely volatile, and for most, day trading is a quick way to lose a great deal of money. It is difficult to make…
2015-2016 Oil Estimates: T. Boone Pickens, Harold Hamm, Goldman Sachs, OPEC and many other large research and investment firms have released their forecasts and predictions for oil prices. In July 2014, the price of oil started to decline rapidly, due to the boom in US shale production and increased production from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, in order to regain market…
Arbitrage There are some commodities that are traded in multiple currencies on multiple markets on Forex. Although computers have made worldwide communication almost lightning fast these days, all of these markets can trade together with fairly equivalent values for the securities shared across currencies. However, the system is not perfect, and the value may rise or fall in one country…
Good oil & gas investment opportunities can be found at just about any price. Better oil & gas investment opportunities can be found when oil prices are discounted. The best oil & gas investment opportunities can be found when oil & gas prices are deeply discounted, like they are today. It all comes down to one basic question: How often…
Open & Shut In the stock market, there are various types of orders that can be placed to help protect you from making a bad investment or to limit the amount you pay for a certain security or other commodity. For instance, if you have made a bad investment and do not want to reinvest in a particular security, you…
Margins & Spreads In order to understand the stock market, or the Forex, you need to speak the language/understand it. For instance, when you think of a margin, for many this means a variable, like the margin of error in a statistic. However, in trade, it refers to the sum of money borrowed from a broker in order to purchase…