Stocks
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Understanding Stock Shorting: Advanced Insights
Posted in Stocks on May 14, 2024
Introduction to Stock Shorting
Stock shorting, also known as short selling or simply "shorting," is an advanced trading strategy used by investors and traders to profit from the decline in the price of a stock. Unlike traditional investing, where investors buy stocks with the expectation that their value will increase over time, short sellers aim to profit from falling prices by borrowing shares from a broker and selling them on the open market. Once the stock price falls, they buy back the shares at a lower price and return them to the broker, pocketing the difference as profit.
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NASDAQ100 Index Fund Introduction
Posted in Stocks on Apr 07, 2024
Introduction
The NASDAQ 100 has historically been regarded as the tech-laden index & has seen a constant upward trends over the last 5 years, with the following ticker symbols, AAPL, MSFT, GOOG & GOOGL, NVDA, AMZN, META leading the charge to trillion dollar valuations. But is there still value in the index, if one is to look more closely to it ‘without’ the aforementioned ticker symbols. That is usually a hypothetical but what if it wasn’t. What if we were to trade the individual stocks within the NASDAQ 100 based on merit. Is value for 3x, 4x, or 7x returns still lingering about?
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