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Aug 24, 2019

Lately commentators have been trying to predict the next recession. But what would you look at to try and tell for yourself what the numbers are? In this episode Derek Moore reviews the 5 areas that the NBER per their site uses to develop their criteria to call recessions. 

 

What is a recession?

NBER historical list of...


Aug 11, 2019

How risky is just holding a single stock in a portfolio? Often either through company stock grants or holding company shares for very long periods where it has appreciated investors may wind up holding either a single stock or just a few. This creates single stock risk and has both systematic stock risk and...


Aug 3, 2019

Derek Moore explains the theory of time decay in options otherwise known as options theta. How does the erosion of time decay benefit option sellers? Plus, how much do position decay from day to day. How much of a factor is theta time decay relative to other things like volatility and underlying price movement? And...