Placing a Treasury Bond Order Trading Web site

www.scottrade.com – Watch this webcast to learn how to use the Scottrade Trading Web site to search for and purchase treasury securities. Scottrades Fixed Income platform has over 150 dealers offering 25000+ bonds and will allow you to narrow your bond search by using over 20 search fields.

Option Trading Strategies – a change from buy and hold

Option Trading Strategies – a change from buy and hold

A portfolio of stocks and shares is a standard investment strategy that exactly fits the bill in the search for a source of passive income, which is generated from the annual earnings payout from the shares. I am not a professional advisor, so this is just a personal opinion, but I do not think that a buy-and-hold portfolio is a safe strategy for your hard-earned cash right now.  Read more...

Trading Forex – Treasuries and the Dollar.

Trading Forex – Treasuries and the Dollar.

Article by Mike P. Kulej

Since the global financial crisis erupted in full last year, most attention was given to short term interest rates. Central Banks were seemingly engaged in a race to zero, trying to bring their respective benchmarks to the lowest possible levels. This was meant to prevent a freeze in credit markets and encourage banks to write loans. Once most Central Banks managed to increase money supply, general focus shifted to stock markets, which were hitting multi year lows. Now that equities world wide staged impressive rallies, attention once again has moved to interest rates. Long term this time.

Day Trading Tips: What is a Bond?

Day Trading Tips: What is a Bond?

Article by Mark Etinger

A bond is a form of debt that you buy. In the transaction, you act as the bank, lending your money to investors, cities, and the government. They pay you back in full with regular interest payments. Because bonds are safer than investing in an often volatile stock market, they are low risk and attract a crowd of investors who enjoy a slow, but steady rate of income. But this doesn’t mean that bonds are entirely risk free. You should always examine the credit-worthiness of bond issuers, even if it is a city selling bonds to build a bridge, by researching how these bonds have been sold in the past.

Treasury Bonds, QE2, and Futures Trading

Treasury Bonds, QE2, and Futures Trading

At the end of June, the Feds quantitative easing program, QE2, where Bernanke purchased 0 billion worth of long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, is scheduled to end. His motive in creating QE2 was to push down long-term interest rates. Understand, the 0 billion is on top of the .25 trillion the Feds bought of CDO toxic assets (mortgage-backed securities.) Right now Treasury Bonds have been rallying even though they are hitting their lowest yields. So what will happen in a couple of weeks? Let’s look at some possibilities…  Read more...

A Trading Secret – The Reason Buy And Hold Does Not Pay Off

A Trading Secret – The Reason Buy And Hold Does Not Pay Off

Article by Christopher Smith

The business of investing in stocks is based on the buying and selling of a certain amount of ‘inventory’. The companies offering their stock to the general public desperately want you to purchase their shares. They also want you to hold on to it for a very long time as this helps the share price retain its value. The thing about buying without selling when dealing with the stock market is like driving downhill with no brakes. In order to create some brakes for your stock you should have a stop-loss order on all stocks that you purchase.