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Options

  • Stock Options and Index Options, an Illustrated Introduction with Examples.
  • The Mechanics of Option Trading, Exercise, and Assignment; Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
  • Option-like Securities: Callable Bonds, Convertible Securities, and Warrants
  • Theoretical Pricing Models: Binomial Option Pricing And The Black-Scholes Formula
  • Put-Call Parity
  • The Greeks: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho
  • Volatility and Implied Volatility
  • Employee Stock Options; Back-dated Options
  • Interest Rate Options
  • Exotic Options
  • Binary Options

Option Strategies

  • Option Strategies: Investment Strategies using Options, illustrated with Graphs and Examples.
  • Covered Calls
  • Vertical Option Spreads
  • Straddles and Strangles: Non-Directional Option Strategies
  • Butterfly and Condor Option Spreads
  • Calendar Option Spreads
  • Diagonal Option Spreads
  • Dividend Spread Arbitrage

Special Option Topics

  • Taxation Of Options and Convertible Securities

Stocks

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. — Will Rogers

Stock Fundamentals

  • Common Stocks, Preferred Stocks, Treasury Stock, Legal Rights of Stockholders: Basic Concepts
  • Share Classes of Common Stock
  • Common Stock Dividends
  • Types of Stocks
  • Margin
  • Selling Short

Primary and Secondary Stock Market

  • Investment Banking
  • Selling New Securities
  • Securities Exempt from Registration under the Securities Act of 1933
  • The Secondary Stock Market
  • Execution, Clearing, and Settlement

Stock Valuation

  • Security Analysts and Their Recommendations
  • Dividend Discount Model (DDM)
  • The Present Value Of Growth Opportunities, Earnings Retention Rate, And Dividend Payout Ratio
  • Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio) and the PEG Ratio
  • Equity Valuation: Book Value, Liquidation Value, And The Q Ratio
  • Enterprise Value
  • Earnings Yield (aka Earnings-Price Ratio, E/P Ratio)
  • Discounted Cash Flow Formula
  • Goodwill
  • Economic Value Added (EVA)

Financial Ratios

  • Financial Ratios
  • Liquidity Measures: Net Working Capital, Current Ratio, Quick Ratio
  • Activity Ratios: Accounts Receivable Turnover, Inventory Turnover, Total Asset Turnover
  • Leverage Measures: Debt-Equity Ratios And Fixed-Charge Coverage Ratio
  • Profitability Ratios: Net Profit Margin, Return On Assets (ROA), Return On Equity (ROE)

Stock Indexes

  • Security Market Indexes
  • Russell Stock Market Indexes
  • Global Dow

Specialized Topics

  • American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)
  • Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs)
  • Preferred Stock
  • Stock Rights Offering
  • Cash Flow from Operations
  • Insider Trading
  • Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)

Futures

  • Futures and Options on Futures — an Illustrated Tutorial
  • The Institution Of Futures Trading: The Futures Exchange, Clearinghouse, And The Futures Commission Merchant (FCM)
  • Funding A Futures Account
  • Futures Orders: Buying and Selling Futures Contracts on an Exchange
  • Hedging
  • Determination Of Futures Prices: Spot-Futures Parity
  • Futures Prices: Known Income, Cost of Carry, Convenience Yield
  • Futures Prices Versus Expected Spot Prices: Expectation Hypothesis, Normal Backwardation, and Contango
  • Financial Futures
  • FX Futures
  • Interest Rate Futures

Commodities

  • Commodities
  • Commodities Blog

Forex

They say that money can't buy love, but it can greatly increase your prospects. — wcs
  • Forex — An Introduction
  • Foreign Currency Market
  • Foreign Exchange History
  • Economics of Foreign Exchange Rates
  • Foreign Exchange Rates
  • Currency Quotes, Bid/Ask Quotes, Quote Convention, and Cross Currency Quotes
  • Currency Cross Rates And Triangular Arbitrage In The FX Spot Market
  • How to Calculate Leverage, Margin, and Pip Values in Forex
  • How To Choose A Forex Broker
  • Forex Trading
  • Rollovers, Interest Rate Differentials, and Value Dates; Carry Trade
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • FX Forwards
  • FX Futures
  • Exotic Options

Topics

  • International Balance Of Payments (BOP)
  • Speculative Currency Attacks

Technical Analysis

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. — J. Paul Getty
  • Technical Analysis (TA)
  • Where are the Technical Analysts' Yachts?
  • Dow Theory
  • Technical Indicators
  • Market Sentiment and Indicators
  • Trends And Trendlines
  • An Overview Of Chart Types Used In Technical Analysis
  • Bar Charts
  • Candlestick Charts
  • Point-and-Figure Charts
  • Simple Moving Averages(SMA) and Exponential Moving Averages (EMA)
  • Price Channels, Envelopes, and Bands
  • Momentum and Momentum Indicators
  • Ralph Nelson Elliot and the Elliot Wave Theory
  • Elliot Wave Theory (EWT)
  • Elliot Wave Theory Review

Personal Finance

  • Bankruptcy
    • Chapter 7
    • Chapter 13
    • Chapter 11
  • Credit and Debt
    • Debt Collection
  • Insurance
    • Types of Insurance
      • Auto
      • Homeowner
      • Health
      • Life
  • Real Estate
  • Taxes
    • Income Taxes
    • Personal Deductions and Tax Credits
    • Retirement Plans
    • Gratuitous Transfer Taxes
    • Educational Tax Benefits
    • Taxation of Investments
    • Business Taxes
  • Wills, Estates, and Trusts
    • Wills and Estates
    • Trusts

Investments

  • Investment Fundamentals
  • Investment Funds
    • Mutual Funds
    • Limited Partnerships
  • Banking
  • Bonds
    • Types Of Bonds
      • Government Securities
      • Money Market Instruments
      • Corporate Bonds
      • Asset Backed Securities
  • Forex
  • Futures
  • Options
  • Stocks
    • Stock Indexes
    • Stock Valuation and Financial Ratios
  • Technical Analysis
  • Economics

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