How to Open a Swing Trade Account

How to Open a Swing Trade Account

Swing trading is the act of transacting in a financial market over a minimum of one day, but up to several weeks, to gain profits. Typically, swing traders utilize technical analysis techniques to identify trading levels for trade entry and exit, as well as the timing of their trades. Swing trading can be very lucrative […]

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 Synthetic: Definition in Finance, Types of Assets

Synthetic: Definition in Finance, Types of Assets

What Is Synthetic? Synthetic is the term given to financial instruments that are engineered to simulate other instruments while altering key characteristics, like duration and cash flow. Key Takeaways Synthetic is the term given to financial instruments that are engineered to simulate other instruments while altering key characteristics, like duration and cash flow. Synthetic positions […]

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 Settlement Price: Definition, Use in Trading, and Example

Settlement Price: Definition, Use in Trading, and Example

What Is a Settlement Price? The settlement price is the price used for determining a position’s daily profit or loss as well as the related margin requirements for the position. It is typically used in the mutual fund and derivatives markets. The settlement price may also refer to the final price an underlying asset achieves […]

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 Zero Days to Expiration (0DTE) Options and How They Work

Zero Days to Expiration (0DTE) Options and How They Work

What Are Zero Days to Expiration (0DTE) Options? Zero days to expiration options, or 0DTE options for short, are options contracts that expire and become void the same day that they’re traded. When an option reaches this stage, there’s not much more time left to act on the right to buy or sell the underlying […]

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 How to Buy and Sell Bitcoin Options

How to Buy and Sell Bitcoin Options

Bitcoin options are financial derivatives that enable investors to speculate on the price of the digital currency with leverage or hedge their digital asset portfolios. Available on both traditional derivatives exchanges and on crypto trading platforms, Bitcoin options have emerged as a popular investment product among advanced crypto traders.  For individuals looking to trade Bitcoin […]

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 Best Options Trading Platforms For July 2025

Best Options Trading Platforms For July 2025

Best Overall : tastytrade Account Minimum: $0.00 Fees and Commissions: $1.00/contract to open for options on stocks and ETFs, capped at $10, $0 to close. $1.25/contract for options on futures contracts and $0.75/contract for options on micro futures contracts. $0 for regular stock and ETF trades Open Account(opens in a new tab) We selected tastytrade […]

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 U.S. lawmakers are light on crypto heading into new Trump era

U.S. lawmakers are light on crypto heading into new Trump era

By Douglas Gillison, Tom Bergin, Chris Prentice and Isla Binnie WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to usher in a boom time for crypto but a Reuters review shows very few members of the incoming congress are invested in bitcoin or other digital currencies.  On Thursday, Trump signed an order to create a […]

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 Dollar strength likely to continue near term – UBS

Dollar strength likely to continue near term – UBS

Investing.com – The US dollar has been on a tear since its late-September 2024 lows, and UBS thinks this near-term strength is likely to persist in the first half of the new year, with room to overshoot. At 06:15 ET (11:15 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other […]

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 US top diplomat Rubio urges Vietnam to address trade imbalance

US top diplomat Rubio urges Vietnam to address trade imbalance

By Kanishka Singh and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call on Friday with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in which he urged Vietnam to address trade imbalances and also discussed shared concerns about China. In the call, the first between the […]

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