Market Theory
ETF. What an Exchange Traded Fund is?
ETF is an interesting instrument of passive investing which emerged relatively recently. We will discuss in this article what a novice should know about ETF. In this article: What ETF is? Types of ETF. Specific features of trading. Differences from UIF (Unit Investment Fund). Advantages and disadvantages. How to buy an ETF?
Top-6 most unusual futures
The original idea of using futures contracts was in helping farmers to be insured from unfavourable fluctuations of prices on primary products. As of now, the industry significantly expanded and includes a lot more players. Futures contracts allow their holders to buy or sell a physical asset or trading instrument on a specified date at […]
To trade or to invest, that is the question
Trading financial instruments in the modern financial markets is a many-sided discipline, in which people from different social strata create the whole multitude of trading strategies known today. At first sight, trading and investing might seem to be synonyms since the main goal of each of these types of activity is profitable trading in the […]
How did globalization influence the types of financial markets?
According to the data of the Brokernotes analytical agency for the year 2018, financial markets activated their development in the global scale. The number of traders has grown by 107% and in Oceania by 116% during one year. The rates of growth were not that fast in previous years. Who would have thought that there […]
What is liquidity? Theory and practice
There is a rule in trading – to trade liquid securities only. In this article we will: identify what securities are liquid and what are not; consider examples of liquid stocks of the American and Russian sectors; explain how to identify liquidity with the help of the Smart DOM and limit orders; speak about iceberg […]
Professional participants of the securities market
It is not difficult to become a securities market participant nowadays. We explained how to become a rightful participant of exchange trades in the following articles: How to become a trader from scratch. Interview with a professional trader; How to become an intraday trader: three steps for a beginner; 5 failures and 5 successes. 3 […]
Exchange and off-exchange securities markets
In this article we will speak about the exchange and off-exchange markets: What the differences are? What specific features are? How and what they trade? Examples. We will start from an interesting fact. Everyone knows about the American exchange called NASDAQ. Namely there they trade stocks of companies such as Amazon and Apple. However, not […]