They say demographics is destiny, and they aren’t wrong. But that doesn’t mean we can just buy and sell stocks according to the flows of demographic change–the world is much more complicated! To incorporate demographics in a financial analysis, we need to think beyond buying and selling. We need to get multidimensional.
We continue digging into margin by looking at how short margin accounts different from long accounts and why shorting stock presents very different kinds of risks to accounts. Want to know why some hedge funds blow up and others don’t? Start here.
Leverage is an essential part of finance, and understanding how it works can benefit traders; misunderstanding it can wipe out accounts, and often has!
To model assets properly you need to vectorize the qualitative. Sound weird? It is–but it’s also a lot of fun.
Options are hard? Not really–not when you know how to see them! Some simple rules to make complex options combinations easier can also keep you away from dangerous bets and costly mistakes.