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XRP Bullish Bets In Derivatives Market Surge As CME Group Announces Futures Offering
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 11:39pm | 616Read More...Derivatives traders aggressively bet on XRP's (CRYPTO: XRP) price increase amid the announcement of the coin's futures contracts on CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME) on Thursday. What happened: More than 70.73% of traders on Binance with an open XRP position were positioned long, up from 67.57% a week...
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Watch These 3 Short-Laden Stocks Leading Up To Earnings Announcements
Saturday, July 30, 2016 - 3:57pm | 715Read More...The concept of a "catalyst" is extremely important when short trading because of the volatility it can cause. Catalysts give a reason for a stock to move in the desired direction and can include any number of events, including: earnings reports, FDA decisions, mergers, spinoffs, takeovers...
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Should Investors Be Focusing More On China?
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 3:44pm | 1057Read More...For the past week or so, the market has been focused on Crimea -- and what could happen if the geopolitical tensions there continued to mount. Would the referendum take place? Would Russia decide to expand into eastern Ukraine? Would the West do anything besides raise a stink? Was there really...
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Swing Trading: Variable Weighting
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 5:50pm | 758Read More...This article is the fifth of six on the topic of using options to swing trade. The topic in this article is weighting on one side or the other of the swing, using options. Using options to focus more on either uptrend or downtrend is an effective method for augmenting the swing itself. The...
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Swing Trading: Short Options Only
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 11:33am | 494Read More...This article is the fourth of six on the topic of using options to swing trade. The topic in this article is the use of short options only. This is a higher-risk strategy than the opposite focus on long options only, although the degree of risk might not be as severe as you think at first glance....
