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As always, Matt Levine at Bloomberg is fascinating and very entertaining: https://tinyurl.com/emhfwbmlbb The link is a gift article. It does not require a Bloomberg subscription. The link expires on June 12, 2023.

Okay, but the line I quoted from the post by @ETJ is factually wrong. The BTC futures at CME are crypto derivatives, and they can be lawfully traded in the USA. As I look carefully at the post by @ETJ, it is not at all clear whether the text in question was written by Allison Morrow at CNN...

And here I always thought CTA meant commodities trading advisor or Chicago Transit Authority There ought to be a rule that an acronym can only be used to mean one thing

WTF is this author talking about? CME has BTC futures.

Anyone who is known simply by their initials should be permanently banned from any type of trading for life. Ummm... Okay, wait a minute, nevermind

This looks like it is loosely modeled on the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous LOL One guy I knew who was in AA told me that the 13th step was "Came to believe your own bullshit"

@kmiklas Do you like preferred stocks right now? Or are they just going to take a massive beating as interest rates rise?

On their basic platform at schwab.com You click on <Trade>, and then click <Bonds>. On the page it takes you to, you then have to click on another link that says <Find Bonds & Fixed Income>. Then you can do a search, and there is a drop down with various types of bonds, e.g., corporates...

I think there are some studies and concrete data which clearly show that both retail investors and institutions are pouring more money into options, especially in the last three years.

My father was a trader on the floor of the CBOE in the 1970s, when options trading was first introduced. At the beginning, there were only call options--no puts. And there were no index options--only equities. And you could only trade options on 16 stocks. And there were only four expiration...

Here's an article that I ran across that explains how to interpret "more obscure market indicators." The title of the article is "How to Predict the Future."

I've attached a search of agency bonds on Schwab. Many require a minimum order of $10K face value, or even more. But some are offered in smaller lots.

What are you talking about? LOL I have an account at Schwab, and there are plenty of agency bonds available. Either you are not using the right search criteria, or you are looking for something really esoteric. Can you give an example of a particular agency and the maturity you are looking for?

Spread betting and CFDs are not available in the USA. But you can make bets that are very similar using options. The capital requirements are not much, as long as you are not trying to sell naked short options.

Yes, but in certain contexts, there is a basic minimum amount that you need, or you won't be able to function. In the USA, if you want to day trade, you need to maintain $25K account equity to comply with the PDT rules. If you're not day trading, you still need a minimum of $2000 at most...

In the USA... The Series 7 exam is the starting point for most of those jobs. The technical term is registered representative. Series 7 is really basic stuff, and then you take other exams that cover more specialized products like fixed income, options, etc. As someone else noted above, when...

What are you trading? And how? Day trading? Swing trading? Or something else?

@Sekiyo Where did you copy and paste that from?

Ask yourself these questions: If an indicator like this really worked, consistently, to tell you when to buy and sell something... then why isn't everyone using it to get rich? So maybe everyone is using it, and that's how people make money trading. Right? But if everyone uses it to decide...

Okay, so does that mean that the news is not fake?