Posts on ‘November 22nd, 2006’

What is a Call Option (Definition)?
A call option is a contract that gives the holder the right to buy the underlying stock at a specific price. If a person is bullish on the stock (expects the stock to rise) in the near term, that person could buy a call option.
Call option contracts have risk to [...]

What is leverage?
Here is a definition of leverage from an online dictionary
“leverage - The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve
one’s speculative capacity and increase the rate of return
from an investment, as in buying securities on margin.”
Essentially, the core idea of leverage is that investors can
use less money to control bigger amount of investment [...]

You’ve seen ads on television, in your local newspaper, and
online for quick loans, or short term loans. These loans can
range from cash in one to 24 hours. You can go to your local
cash advance business down the street, or you can apply
online. In both cases the cash is pretty easy to get right
away when you’re [...]

All of us need to save. For emergencies like accidents, illness, layoffs. To support our kid’s college education. To make that down-payment for a car or house. And, more importantly, for retirement.
Most of us don’t really have any extra money to put away. So we have to find a sustainable way to move a little [...]