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What is futures

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 A futures (or futures contract) is an agreement between two exchange participants that one will buy and the other will sell something for a predetermined price on a predetermined date. Why is this needed? In general, this is necessary, for example, for a real manufacturer and a real consumer of any product, if the price of a product is constantly jumping, and you want to plan a business. The manufacturer wants to know that the product to be produced will be bought for the money for which he is willing to produce this product. And the buyer is sure that when he needs a product, he will be able to buy it at a comfortable price. What's the catch? For these two, it consists in the fact that at the time of the agreed delivery, the market price for this product will be either lower or higher than the one they have chosen for themselves. It is also clear that the value of price confidence is more important to them than fear of overpaying. So they have everything in general What are the t

Trader slang for newbies

 I'll just tell you what the words mean, well, sooo often found in the comments of the channels about investments. Slang is still a trading, not an investment one, nevertheless why not tell Bulls are market participants who are trying to capitalize on the increase in the value of stocks (or other assets). Bears - in contrast to bulls, these are market participants "playing short", or trying to capitalize on the decline in stock prices (or other assets). For example, they borrow stocks from a broker that they expect will soon fall. They immediately sell them at a high price, and after the decline, they buy them back at a low price and return them to the broker. A vivid analogy, how to remember: the bull raises the opponent on the horns up ⬆, and the bear presses the victim with his paw down to the ground ⬇. Without going far from bulls and bears, it is necessary to reveal the no less frequently used words "short" and "long". I must say right away that i