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How to Profit From Rising or Falling Housing Prices

By John Jagerson, Analyst at Learning MarketsYou may be wondering whatever happened to those bright fellows that were creating the institutional financial products (like swaps and securitized [...]  Read the full story

Selling Puts vs. Covered Calls; Which is Better?

 by John Jagerson, Analyst at Learning MarketsInvestors beginning to use options will frequently start with covered calls. This options strategy provides the benefits of reduced portfolio [...]  Read the full story

Trading a Dead Cat Bounce - Part Two

by John Jagerson, Analyst at Learning Markets Identifying a dead cat bounce is just part of the challenge. Estimating or forecasting the likely distance the stock will move following [...]  Read the full story

Trading a Dead Cat Bounce - Part One

by John Jagerson, Analyst at Learning MarketsExtremely volatile markets create an environment for the formation of a very specific type of technical price pattern. The "Dead Cat Bounce" pattern [...]  Read the full story

Binary Options: Not Ready For Investors

by John Jagerson, Analyst at Learning MarketsNew investing products appear more and more frequently. Some of these are good innovations, others are bad and some are bad now but may improve over [...]  Read the full story

How to Profit From Rising or Falling Home Prices

by John Jagerson, Analyst at Learning MarketsYou may be wondering whatever happened to those bright fellows that were creating the institutional financial products (like swaps andsecuritized [...]  Read the full story