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Pre-Market Trading Activity Observations

If you're active in the markets you're probably used to reading the morning news (or your favorite SA Contributor) as you prepare for the 9:30 opening bell. You check where the Dow closed yesterday, check the pre-market price, and think about the upcoming reporting period for your own or your clients' holdings.

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Rebalancing For Opportunity Cost Through Contrarian Investment Strategies

2018's late equity selloff left many investors disappointed and tired of traditional index funds and passive investing. Attributing some "would be", and "should have" arguments, and a bit of hindsight bias, some investors decided to abandon the staple $ SPY, $ DJI, and $ QQQ index-tracking ETFs.

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Broad EM ETFs Create More Risk Than They're Worth

Editor's note: Seeking Alpha is proud to welcome Ivan Struk as a new contributor. It's easy to become a Seeking Alpha contributor and earn money for your best investment ideas. Active contributors also get free access to the SA PRO archive.

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The Best Way to Use Stock Market Correlations | DataDrivenInvestor

When Alfred Winslow Jones pioneered the world's first "hedged" fund (the "d" was dropped later) he blew other investors away by borrowing funds to short 20% of the stocks trading at the time. He believed that there was a connection between why some stocks go up while others go down.

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Momentum Trading with Pre-Market Trends

Anyone that has ever stared at a stock chart on their monitor in anticipation of the opening bell will know that stocks don't open at the same price that they close. Most charting software doesn't incorporate after-hours and pre-market price action, and therefore most charts look like this: As soon as one starts diving further into the realm of extended-hours trading they start asking a lot of questions.

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Momentum Trading with Pre-Market Trends

Anyone that has ever stared at a stock chart on their monitor in anticipation of the opening bell will know that stocks don't open at the same price that they close. Most charting software doesn't incorporate after-hours and pre-market price action, and therefore most charts look like this: As soon as one starts diving further into the realm of extended-hours trading they start asking a lot of questions.

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Почему фондовые менеджеры Силиконовой долины отказываются от традиционной финансовой системы? - Крипто на vc.ru

В последние несколько лет все больше людей отказываются от привычных способов торговли в пользу блокчейна. Торговля на традиционных финансовых рынках работает таким образом, что, если вы хотите инвестировать свои средства, будучи частным инвестором, вы не можете напрямую приобрести тот или иной актив. Для совершения инвестиционных сделок...

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Know Your Coin: White Paper Basics

Ivan Struk Valuing a cryptocurrency is difficult because there is less information available. Generally, cryptocurrencies have smaller market caps, warrant less attention, and have no legal obligations to fully disclose all of their activities. The white paper is sometimes the only formal document made available to potential investors.

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5 Tips for Using Protective Stops: Stop Loss and Take Profit

While the fundamentals behind stop-loss and take-profit levels are simple, if they're used poorly, they can negatively impact your investment performance. We hope that the strategies and tips laid out here will give you a better understanding of how to use take-profit and stop-loss levels as a risk management tool more effectively.

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4 Best Ways to Trade Crypto Like Warren Buffett

Denis Bykov Cryptocurrency usually goes hand in hand with speculative trading practices. For the most part it's devoid of traditional investment practices. From the way cryptocurrency is offered, ICOs and Airdrops, to the exchanges that it's listed on - cryptocurrency doesn't easily lend itself to traditional investing principles.

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9 Frequently Asked Questions About Trading

Ivan Struk Entering the world of financial markets can be a daunting experience. At first, the more you learn the more questions you have. Often you find yourself knowing enough to realize you know very little, but don't worry; nobody becomes a trader over night.

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Pre-Market Futures: Fair Value Trading Strategy

Ivan Struk Futures have always been the trading instrument of choice for investors that want to get a jump on the markets. Futures trading begins earlier than even pre-market equity trading. This is why futures are often referred to as pre-market futures. They can set the tone of the market movements for the rest of the day.

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3 Ways to Profit with 24/7 Trading

Ivan Struk For some of us, the normal intraday trading session just isn't enough. You might be at work, or on the road, or even in a different time zone that makes trading only during the day difficult. Moreover, there are times when you need to trade outside the confines of the normal day.

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Momentum Trading with Pre-Market Trends

Ivan Struk Anyone that has ever stared at a stock chart on their monitor in anticipation of the opening bell will know that stocks don't open at the same price that they close.

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Fractional Trading: Investing with No Minimum

Ivan Struk Those working in finance or trading will eventually encounter the untimely question from one of their friends, family members, acquaintances, or even strangers: how can they invest in the markets. They either ask what stock to buy or what broker to choose, some even ask pointed questions about a particular stock they heard about on the news.

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When Short Sellers Got it Right: 3 Famous Shorts

Ivan Struk Short selling is considered the ultimate contrarian investor tool. Shorting a stock means the investor is betting on the under-performance of a company relative to it's market valuation - betting on failure. With infinite downside, it takes real confidence to enter a short position, especially on a big or famous stock.

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When Short Sellers Were Wrong: 3 Failed Short Positions

Ivan Struk Short selling a stock is one of the most audacious gambits an investor can play. When an investor is long their downside is limited to 100% - they can only lose their total investment. However, when short sellers are wrong and the stock increases - it can increase endlessly, creating an unlimited downside for the short seller.

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Short Selling Explained: A Contrarian's Guide

Ivan Struk Everyone knows the mantra "buy low, sell high". It's a logical operation that makes sense to investors, speculators, and traders of all levels because it's comparable to traditional barter. It doesn't matter if you don't even understand what a stock really is - everyone understands buying something for less and selling it for more.

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Pre-Market Trading: Not Just for Wall Street

Ivan Struk For the longest time trading seemed like a chore reserved to the particularly thick-skinned, slick, and well poised bankers of Wall Street. They stared at charts spanned across multiple screens, and spewed acronyms that made their job seem like rocket science.

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Ivan Struk

Ivan Struk, 5+ years institutional trading | Rice U Portfolio Management. Head of EM Equity Research at East Mill Capital | Associate at Morpher

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