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Leverage is the use of borrowed capital or debt to try and increase the potential return of an investment.
An individual might leverage an investment account by going on margin to purchase additional securities, whereas the amount of debt used to finance a company’s assets is considered to be that company’s level of leverage. A firm with significantly more debt than equity is considered to be highly leveraged.
A plus tick is a transaction which occurs at a price higher than the transaction before it, also called an uptick
A market correction is typically a sharp, sudden decline in stock prices, where they fall in value by around 10% - 20%
Ripple does not have a mining rewards system like Bitcoin for releasing new coins into the market, so they’ve enacted a plan to put 55 billion XRP into escrow accounts
Federal income taxes are paid by individuals in proportion to their earnings, after reducing the considered earnings
The Foreign Exchange is abbreviated Forex, and it refers to the global network of 24/7 currency trading
A foreign tax credit allows a citizen who earned income in another country to reduce their domestic income taxes owed
Plenty of theories are known because they are useful, and it is up to you to discern which ones may be worth your time
The BB-/Ba3 rating is given to bonds and companies who have a moderate risk of default
A 401(k) plan Administrator will usually be an officer of the Employer sponsoring the plan
An uptrend is a continuous upward movement in a stock's price. A security purchased at the beginning of an uptrend...