Capital requirements often stop many beginners in their tracks. You want to trade, but then you hear a dozen different numbers. One person says you need a small fortune. Another says you can start ...

US regulators are finalizing plans to replace a controversial rule that would dramatically lower a threshold for retail investors to trade equities and options more often. The Financial Industry ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is evaluating whether exchanges’ current surveillance and enforcement mechanisms can handle Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs). The United States Securities ...

Retail options volume is surging. One startup wants to make it fun. Another wants to make it comprehensible. Both are betting ...

Explore the disadvantages of stock trading, the benefits of options trading, and learn how to start options trading ...

Margin relief has become a topic of increasing interest among traders using cash-settled index options. If you aren't familiar with this topic, that might sound overwhelming. This article will help ...

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Some traders and investors may not have a complete understanding of the way their profits or losses will be taxed and how that impacts profit margin, or capital gains taxes, and how these taxes can ...

As a strength and conditioning coach once said, you can never be better than the fundamentals. If your fundamental form is wrong, you’ll hurt yourself and limit your progress.

Volatility, which refers to the propensity of a security's price to move higher or lower, has several key concepts within the realm options trading. Implied volatility (IV) heavily influences the ...