Control Your Financial Future
By Cam Morgan
The FOMC meets this week to determine the interest rate for the US and whether it’ll hold to the movements from December. The market puts the movement at virtually zero, while actually backtracking and lowering the rate back down has about a 3% chance. With The Central European Bank declaring a continuation of quantitative easing last week,…
By Cam Morgan
Implementing options trading as part of your portfolio offers more than just consistent returns through cash flow and compound interest. With proper positioning and timing, writing options against securities in your portfolio can help protect you against a volatile market, as well. [/one_third]
By Cam Morgan
When the market is bullish, securities generally do well regardless of what they are. Utilities? Sure. Oil? Yep. Tech? Buy it all! It’s akin to the old expression of a rising tide raises all ships. Sure, there will always be losers. A company may have an off day from a lukewarm product launch or suffer…
By Cam Morgan
We take many things for granted here in 2016. There are a myriad of ways to trade thanks to apps ranging from ThinkOrSwim to Robinhood supported by the advent of wifi and high-speed internet. Charting and screening tools allow for detailed analysis of securities with the press of a button. The markets can move at…
By Cam Morgan
The mindset of how you approach making money (and what you do with it) is important; particularly if your goal is to eventually retire from the usual 9 to 5 job. Matt Justice brings on special guest Jeremy Reese to discuss the difference between how entrepreneurs and consumers think about money, as well as the importance…
By Cam Morgan
There’s a joke that teachers are secretly students of what they’re teaching since teaching is the best way to learn something and master it. It makes a sort of sense, too; you can’t (properly) instruct someone on a subject unless you understand it, and teaching something so another person understands the subject offers the instructor…
By Cam Morgan
Fear is a motivator, and there are two responses it creates: action or inaction. Action, in attempting to overcome the fear; or inaction, in not knowing what to do, being overwhelmed, or simply trying to avoid the object of the fear. When it comes to finance, curiously, many default to inaction as the default response and pass…
By Cam Morgan
Those new to trading can find uncertain markets between bull and bear markets daunting. Prices can fluctuate more than usual from day to day, and the volatility in the market increases the difficulty of wringing risk out of trades. Even a reasonably balanced portfolio can run into trouble when the markets get overly jittery. [/one_third]
By Cam Morgan
Finding good trades can be a bit challenging even during bull markets. When the bears start lurking back into the market, though, it can feel even harder to do since it seems like everything is going down. Well, there are always winners, even in down markets, and directional trading doesn’t care whether it’s a bull…
By Cam Morgan
Robert Shannon’s trading journey has been a winding one. Starting as a Texas rancher, he travelled extensively at the advice of his grandfather to see the world before Robert became set in his ways. A particular area that left a mark on Robert was his two years in South America, where he was exposed to…