Questions tagged [trading]
Trading means exchanging one item for another such as goods for money. In finance, trading refers to the buying and selling of securities such as stock, options, or futures. Related tags are day-trading, trading-volume, and online-trading.
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Why is the half spread considered the transaction cost?
I know there are other questions that address this, but I'm a little confused on the intuition.
Say bid is 90, weighted mid is 90.4, and ask is 91. So the bid/ask spread is 1. If I want to sell now, I ...
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What is the least amount of time i can own a stock to get dividend? [duplicate]
As we should own the stock at the close of trading on the day before the ex-dividend date,
does the extended trading close at 7:59 PM or 11:59 PM.
So buy at 7:59 PM and sell at 8:00 PM
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buy at 11:...
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Wiping out stop losses to create liquidity?
It is the second or third time that I read something about this theory (is it only a theory or has it been proved?) on how institutions or professional traders are often pushing prices somewhat beyond ...
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In this chart, price seems to keep testing the same value over days. Coincidence? Or science to explain it?
Here's chart of the EUR/USD, and over the course of days, we can see that the current price seems to be tested by the low price on multiple previous days (the red line):
Is this merely a coincidence? ...
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Doing a STP sell order with length of time consideration
I am trading stocks in Interactive Broker and crypto in Binance. One way to manage my risk is setting stop loss orders in my long positions. But there are times (particularly in crypto) when a ticker ...
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Do market makers do gamma hedging on option futures ES?
Do market makers do gamma hedging on MES and ES and does that impact ES prices, or is the ES price only impacted by gamma hedging on SPX and SPY according to volumes?
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Interactive Brokers - API for Implied Volatility Comparison chart
Does anybody know a way how to download data from Implied Volatility Comparison chart from Interactive Brokers TWS? Is there any API method (either REST API or TWS API) for that?
Or do you know any ...
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What's the capital needed in order to achiev $500 monthly with Options Trading
I'm looking for some advice on to achieve a monthly income equal to my monthly expenses which is 500$ - I already have a portfolio of monthly dividend stocks valued at around $1,200, which provides me ...
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How does one decide Moving average and its cross-over parameters to use
For the purpose of trading options of a volatile index, I want to understand how to decide between the following for a particular indicator, say, RSI:
Assuming that the RSI changes from 0 to 100 in a ...
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Wash Trade Definition - market abuse
I am a bit new to trading and hope that I am making this post in the appropriate place to ask. I saw a few questions on wash trading but I am still a bit confused on the specifics (I describe a ...
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Getting introduced to the world of trading as a mathematician
I'm a mathematics undergrad. My economic/financial knowledge is very rudimentary because this world has never caught my attention - until now.
I like algorithms. I'm a good programmer and know machine ...
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Will Brokerage Be Concerned If I Swap ("Churn") Between Two Positions on a Monthly Basis?
Disregarding the "Why?" or potential brokerage/trading fees, please consider the following scenario:
I have two positions, A and B. I have $100,000 in position A at the beginning of the ...
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Why do futures allow higher leverage?
Why do futures allow higher leverage? Shouldn't the risk of a futures contract be the same as the spot. In that case, why would brokers feel more comfortable handing leverage to futures traders vs ...
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What does Takeout and Putup mean?
What does takeout and putup values mean in fixed income trade and how would you interpret these values?
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relationship between a mortgage bond and homeowner
This is a quote from Liars Poker, the famous book by Michael Lewis that details his time working as a bond salesman.
Lewis Ranieri cast himself in an odd role for a Wall Street salesman. He ...
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