With or without vines, Shapiro, a former penny stock trader, lived like a grape magnate.
The customer was a stock trader, but a stock trader who had lost his job.
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For the most part, the at-home active stock trader has a dismal record.
As a recovering stock trader, I know too well the panic and euphoria that accompanies the quarterly ritual of corporate earnings report.
Four charts from private stock trader SecondMarket paint an interesting picture.
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The January Barometer is among the panoply of superstitions surrounding stock market history made popular by the Stock Trader's Almanac founder, Yale Hirsch.
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Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor, is an unflappable propagator of market truisms, and his father, Yale Hirsch, discovered the "best six months" strategy in 1986.
He had heard that a stock trader there named Colonel Stonehill had bought a large parcel of cow ponies from Texas drovers on their way to Kansas and was now stuck with them.
He partnered with stock trader Mark Messier and pharmacist Mike Havrilla, who both generated impressive short-term gains on Profit.ly, to publish a book and DVD series this summer about trading biotech stocks.
Stock Trader's Almanac founder Yale Hirsch is credited with coming up with the "first five days" indicator, which essentially says that the direction of the first five days of January is predictive of January, which can have bullish implications for the rest of the year.
According to data collected by Jeff Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor and son of founder Yale Hirsch, the third year of a president's term, going back to 1832 and President Andrew Jackson, has been far and away the most rewarding for stock investors.
In more than 60 years as Asia's oldest stock exchange, no broker, trader nor businessman has ever been convicted of stock market fraud.
That, and the absence of a rule requiring short sales to be done on a stock's uptick, gives plenty of ammunition to a trader intent on driving a stock into the ground.
In a short sale, a trader sells borrowed stock, hoping it will fall in price and can be repurchased later at a profit.
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Firmer U.S. stock indexes Wednesday did somewhat limiting investor and trader demand for the safe-haven precious metals, as the stronger U.S. stock market suggests better risk appetite is presently in the market place.
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Often, when a trader short sells a stock, he will purchase a call option on that same stock.
Ms. Baiynd wasn't the only short-term trader flocking to the stock.
The QCC order, which allows valid and executable orders to immediately cross upon arrival with no auction, protects the anonymity of the trader and involves a stock component executed away from the Exchange on which the options were crossed.
Stronger U.S. stock indexes Wednesday morning are somewhat limiting investor and trader demand for the safe-haven precious metals, as the stronger U.S. stock market suggests better risk appetite is presently in the market place.
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In the second, Johnson allegedly paid kickbacks to a trader at JPMorgan Chase for stock loan trades.
Normally, a trader looking to sell a stock short must borrow or at least identify a share to borrow before making the sale trade.
The trader profits on the short stock if shares drop, while the long calls hedge potential bullish movement in the price of the underlying through expiration in March.
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That bullish momentum in stocks is keeping investor and trader money flowing into the stock markets at the expense of most other investment assets, including raw commodities and gold.
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That bullish momentum in stocks has been keeping investor and trader money flowing into the stock markets at the expense of most other investment assets, including raw commodities and gold.
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The combination of long stock and debit put spread positions the trader to make money on the upside if shares in Cree continue to rally, while also providing downside protection in the event of a pullback through February expiration.
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Doing so results in a net credit, which the trader retains as long as the stock closes between the sold strikes when the options expire.
One of its securities analyst, in recent testimony to a Senate committee, said he recommended Enron stock because he was hoodwinked by the energy trader.
On the floor of the American Stock Exchange it is widely believed that any trader cocky enough to attract media attention is destined to "blow out" -- trader lingo for going out of business.
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