The Glass-Steagall Act was a piece of legislation passed in the US in the 1930s which separated commercial banks and investment banks. The aim was to protect the customers of commercial banks fro...
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, is a standardized set of rules and systems used by all firms with regards to their financial statements. All financial statements have to conform to ...
Gamma is a term used in trading to assess the rate of change of the delta of an asset relative to the change in the price of the asset and is used to analyze the movement of deriva...
Day trading is a trading strategy which revolves around the opening and closing positions within a single day. Day trading usually requires large amounts of leverage and ...
While quite a bit of time and research goes into selecting stocks, it is often hard to know when to pull out especially for first time investors. The good news is that if you have chosen your stocks c...
There are several different types of investments, and there are many factors in determining where you should invest your funds.Of course, determining where you will invest begins with researching the ...
Each individual has a risk tolerance that should not be ignored. Any good stock broker or financial planner knows this, and they should make the effort to help you determine what your risk tolerance i...
The recent implosion of the global equity markets - from Hong Kong to New York - engendered yet another round of the semipternal debate: should central banks contemplate abrupt adjustments in the pric...
September 11, 2001 was a defining moment in the history of our country. Prior to this historical date the Department of Homeland Security was not created and airport security was just like any other i...