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Investment PortfoliosModern Portfolio Theories Investment Strategy Practical Portfolio Management Info Diversification Ratings Activities Abroad Trading Markets

Investment Terminology and InstrumentsBasics Investment Terminology Trading Bonds Mutual Funds Exchange Traded Funds (ETF)Stocks Annuities

Technical Analysis and TradingAnalysis Basics Technical Indicators Trading Models Patterns Trading Options Trading Forex Trading Commodities Speculative Investments

Cryptocurrencies and BlockchainBlockchain Bitcoin Ethereum Litecoin Ripple Taxes and Regulation

RetirementSocial Security Benefits Long-Term Care Insurance General Retirement Info Health Insurance Medicare and Medicaid Life Insurance Wills and Trusts

Retirement Accounts401(k) and 403(b) Plans Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA)SEP and SIMPLE IRAs Keogh Plans Money Purchase/Profit Sharing Plans Self-Employed 401(k)s and 457s Pension Plan Rules Cash-Balance Plans Thrift Savings Plans and 529 Plans and ESA

Personal FinancePersonal Banking Personal Debt Home Related Tax Forms Small Business Income Investments IRS Rules and Publications Personal Life Mortgage

Corporate BasicsBasics Corporate Structure Corporate Fundamentals Corporate Debt Risks Economics Corporate Accounting Dividends Earnings

What is a Bitcoin Fork?

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Keywords: Blockchains, Litecoin, hard fork, soft fork, Dash spork, chain split, bitcoin fork,

What is a Reverse Stock Split?

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Keywords: Stock, liquidity, bid and ask prices, stock price, outstanding shares, stock exchanges, eligibility requirements, SEC reporting, stock split, stock merge,

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

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Keywords: market indices, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), price-weighted index, stock split, domestic stocks,

What are the basics of options?

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Keywords: long position, strike price, short position, calls, puts, options, open interest, open position, closed position, option chain,

What is a Spin-off?

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Keywords: Initial Public Offering (IPO), conglomerate, subsidiaries, Transfer of Technology (ToT), divestment, split-off, exchange offer, spin-off,

What is the Lightning Network?

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Keywords: Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin, atomic swaps, lightning channel, Charlie Lee,

What is Dividend Adjusted Return?

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Keywords: dividends, preferred stock, convertible, Dividend Discount Model (DDM), intrinsic value, Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), dividend adjusted return,

What is Contribution Margin?

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Keywords: margin, variable costs, contribution margin, bottleneck, profitability,

What are Bitcoin Mining Pools?

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Keywords: hash function, Bitcoin mining, mining pools, Getwork, Stratum,

What is the difference between Common Stock and Preferred Stock?

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Keywords: stocks, dividends, bonds, preferred stock, common stock, convertible securities,

What is Mortgage Fraud?

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Keywords: reverse mortgage, second mortgage, misrepresentation, FBI,

What is a Merger?

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Keywords: horizontal merger, vertical integration, market extension, concentric merger, conglomerate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A),

What is commodity-product spread?

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Keywords: commodity, demand, supply and demand,

What is an Accelerated Share Repurchase?

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Keywords: dilutive, covering a short, short position, diluted earnings per share, Earnings Per Share (EPS), share buybacks, investment banks, short-selling, buy-back, accelerated share repurchase, premium,

What were the Biggest Single Day Market Moves?

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Keywords: market statistics, market performance, risk tolerance, volatility,

Who Administers a 401(k)?

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Keywords: taxation, retirement accounts, IRS, open architecture plans, third party administrator, ERISA, TPA, Highly Compensated Employees (HCEs),

What is Blockchain Technology?

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Keywords: Blockchains, blockchain technology, databases vs blockchains, introduction to blockchains, advantages to blockchains,

What are Multichains and Sidechains?

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Keywords: Ethereum, Ripple, Multichain, Blockstream, Liquid, Drivechain, Lightning Network, sidechain,

How Do You Mine Ethereum?

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Keywords: ASIC mining, hash function, hashrate, GPU mining, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG),

What is Tokenization?

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Keywords: Ethereum, ERC 20, tokenization, the internet of things, microtransactions,

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