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- E*TRADE Monthly Market Commentary | October 2021
- 3 Tenets for Tax-Aware Investing
- Embracing the Uncertainty of China while Investing in Emerging Markets
- E*TRADE Monthly Market Commentary | November 2021
- Finding and funding a woman’s "Why"
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- E*TRADE Monthly Market Commentary | December 2021
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- Responsible Investing: Aligning financial goals with values
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- Introducing Power E*TRADE
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- Introduction to options trading
- Options: Understanding the Greeks
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- An options trade from idea to execution
- Orders types: Basic to advanced
- Charting stocks with Power E*TRADE
- How to manage trading risk
- Managing your mind: The forgotten indicator
- Options basics for beginners
- Options trades and tools at E*TRADE.com
- Chart analysis, part 1: seeing trends and spotting patterns
- Chart analysis, part 2: using moving averages and technical indicators
- Options trades and tools in Power E*TRADE
- Introduction to candlestick charting
- Buying options for stock speculation
- Generating income from covered calls
- Stock trades and tools in Power E*TRADE
- Options spreads for defined risk/reward trades
- Technical stock charting on Power E*TRADE
- Four orders to protect a stock
- Iron condors: an advanced strategy for option income
- Options: Getting started with options
- Platform: Introducing Power E*TRADE
- New investors: How to start investing
- New investors: Intro to the stock market
- Buying an option: From an idea to a trade
- ETFs for long-term investors
- New investors: Researching stocks
- Options: Using puts for protection
- Platform: Options trading with Power E*TRADE
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- ETFs for short-term traders
- Options: Introduction to spread trades
- E*TRADE Capital Management Market Commentary
- Options: Getting started with options
- Paper trading: Practice trades and test strategies
- How to make a stock trade
- ETFs for long-term investors
- Paper trading options: Practice trades and test strategies
- Buying options to speculate on stocks
- Selling options: Covered calls and secured puts
- ETFs for short-term traders
- Platform: Analyzing options with Power E*TRADE
- Four orders to protect a stock trade
- Platform: Five Live Action scans for short-term traders
- Introduction to futures trading
- Getting started with candlestick charts
- Be tax prepared:What to know before April 15
- Investing for the next generation
- 10 predictions for long-term investors
- Advancing gender and racial equality through Responsible Investing: How a lens on diversity can lead to better investment decisions and positive change
- E*TRADE Capital Management Market Commentary
- Market Outlook 2022: Key themes that may impact investors
- E*TRADE Capital Management Personalized Investments Model Portfolio Overview
- Harnessing the power of women for women: Gender lens investing to advance and empower women
- E*TRADE Capital Management Market Commentary
- EMPOWER™ the Female Investor: Navigating financial planning challenges
- Securing Your Retirement: Transforming Social Security into a Winning Retirement Strategy
- Trading options: Learn the basics
- Platform: Options at etrade.com
- Stock market strategy I: Planning to trade
- Buying options to speculate on stock moves
- Platform: Options trading with Power E*TRADE
- Scanning for stock ideas
- Trading bullish options spreads for defined risk-reward
- Trading bearish option spreads for defined risk-reward
- Platform: Stock trading with Power E*TRADE
- Stock market strategy II: Making a trade
- Platform: Managing options position in Power E*TRADE
- Stock market strategy III: Protecting a trade
- Diagonal spreads: Profit from time decay
- Technical analysis I
- Identifying trends and patterns in Power E*TRADE
- Introduction to options trading
- Technical analysis II: Using moving averages and technical indicators
- Using moving averages with Power E*TRADE
- Speculating with options
- Options: Understanding the Greeks
- Technical analysis III: Candlestick charting techniques
- Using oscillators with Power E*TRADE
- Put writing for options income
- Using Fibonacci tools with Power E*TRADE
- Trading risk management
- Managing your mind: The forgotten indicator
- Stock investing 1: Market basics
- Platform: Using Power E*TRADE
- A basic introduction to options
- Stock investing 2: Researching stocks
- Platform: Charts in Power E*TRADE
- Income from stocks with covered call options
- Generating ideas for trading and investing
- Stock investing 3: Using stock charts
- Platform: Option trades on etrade.com
- Protecting stocks with put options
- Platform: Option trades on Power E*TRADE
- Speculating on stocks with options
- Stock investing 4: Managing risk
- 3 Tenets for Tax-Aware Investing
- E*TRADE Capital Management Market Commentary
- How to build an income-seeking strategy with ETFs
- Making the most out of your retirement savings
- Getting started with options
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- Four ways to build a portfolio
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- Visualize retirement: What are you saving for?
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- Term Insurance 101
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Getting Started
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- Understanding the sharpe ratio
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- Credit 101: Using credit wisely
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Stocks
- What is a stock split?
- How to day trade
- Understanding day trading requirements
- Generating day trading margin calls
- Managing investment risk
- The basics of stock selection
- What to consider before your next trade
- Evaluating stock fundamentals
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- Intro to fundamental analysis
- Introduction to technical analysis
- Understanding technical analysis charts and chart types
- Understanding technical analysis price patterns
- Understanding technical analysis support and resistance
- Understanding technical analysis trends
- Understanding the basics of your cash account
- Understanding cash substitution and freeride violations for cash accounts
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Futures
- Why trade futures?
- How much is needed to trade futures?
- What are the basics of futures trading?
- How do I speculate with futures?
- How do I manage risk in my portfolio with futures?
- How can I diversify my portfolio with futures?
- Futures products for equity traders
- Definition of a futures contract
- Discover WTI: A global benchmark
- Get to know futures expiration and settlement
- Introduction to precious metals
- Futures contract specifications
- Mark-to-market
- Understanding futures expiration & contract roll
- Tick movements: Understanding how they work
- Initial coin offerings: Know before you invest
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Options
- Why trade options?
- Getting started with options - part 1
- Getting started with options - part 2
- Understanding Assignment Risk in Level 3&4 Options Strategies
- 3 common mistakes options traders make
- Buying calls
- Buying puts
- Potentially protect a stock position against a market drop
- Selling calls
- Selling puts
- Understand the risk of cash-secured puts
- Understanding Options Greeks
- Margin
- ETFs & Mutual Funds
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Bonds and CDs
- What is a bond?
- Why invest in bonds?
- Demystifying the language of bonds
- Types of bonds
- The basics of municipal bonds
- Intro to bond indexes
- The basics of bond ladders
- Bonds vs. bond funds
- Bonds, interest rates, and the impact of inflation
- Understanding brokered CDs
- Ultra-short bond funds and money market funds: Know the difference
- What are bond ratings?
- The ins and outs of bond swapping
- A guide to US Treasuries
- Insurance
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Retirement
- How do I start saving for retirement?
- Five retirement investing myths
- 4 options for your old employer retirement plan
- Understanding IRA rollovers
- Thinking about a Roth IRA conversion
- Retiring soon? our 6-step checklist if you're getting ready to retire
- IRAs for minors
- Understand the choices for inherited IRAs
- What are small business retirement plans?
- Incorporating Social Security into your retirement planning
- How to tap retirement funds before age 59½
- Taking a distribution from an IRA
- Understanding required minimum distributions (RMDs)
- Your future income need: Defining and prioritizing expenses in retirement
- Trading in your IRA
- The retirement spending reality
- Retirement road map: Planning in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, & beyond
- How to construct a retirement portfolio
- Overcoming five major retirement challenges
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Taxes
- 2021 Tax Checklist
- Understanding deemed dividends and taxes
- Trader status: Talking about it with your tax advisor
- An overview of recent coronavirus-related legislation
- Understanding the SECURE Act of 2019
- What is a Wash Sale?
- Cost basis: What it is, how it's calculated, and where to find it
- Five possible solutions to pay your tax bill
- Understanding the alternative minimum tax
- Capital Gains Explained
- What is tax loss harvesting?
- Take control of your taxes: Three tenets for tax-aware investing
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Market Happenings
- The return of geopolitical risk
- Geopolitical conflict adds to headwinds for markets
- Russia-Ukraine: Mapping geopolitical uncertainty
- The Fed makes its move
- Markets weather March madness
- Yield curve: Is this recessionary signal flashing red?
- April showers
- Fed follows through
- Making sense of tumultuous markets
- Paving the way for a US infrastructure supercycle
- Market faces change of seasons
- Markets get a dose of volatility
- Could rising costs pressure earnings?
- As consumer mood sours, are investors overly optimistic?
- Will “missing workers” start to weigh on US stocks?
- October rebound kicks off Q4
- Are policymakers being too patient on inflation risk?
- Year-end crosscurrents
- 2022 Outlook: Growth despite inflation
- In the markets, fundamentals may dominate in 2022
- 2022: Following up on another record year
- Why investors may have a tougher time finding returns in 2022
- A note about recent market volatility
- Volatility wake-up call
- Six ideas to watch in 2022
- All eyes on Ukraine
- Should investors start to prepare for recession?
- 2022 Mid-year economic outlook: Slowing, not stopping
- 2022 Mid-year investment outlook: Defend and diversify
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Daily Insights
- Market rolls into New Year
- Sector momentum for the New Year
- Taking cues from volatility
- Record sales, record highs
- Fibonacci retracements
- Implied volatility
- When the VIX talks, smart traders listen
- VIX for traders
- VIX dips, market slips
- Going vertical
- Open interest
- A quick lesson in time decay
- VIX in spotlight as market hugs highs
- Market faces change of seasons
- Stocks step into October
- Markets get a dose of volatility
- Breakdown of a breakout
- Trading beyond the headlines
- Market seeks floor as Congress eyes ceiling
- Biotech options get spliced
- Short-term move, big-picture view
- Earnings season starts with a bang
- Small-cap-divergence
- Call volume on the rise
- Avoiding head fakes
- Spreading options, spreading risk
- Stocks in the seasonal swing of things?
- Options discount check
- Right forecast, wrong trade
- Knocking on the price ceiling
- Market gears up for key week
- Tariff deal price surge
- Climate right for clean energy?
- Labor jolt highlights options
- An eye on the calendar
- Small caps lead stock surge
- Infrastructure, materials, and momentum
- Putting a premium on volatility
- Options signaling interest?
- Altitude check for “air taxi”
- Another inflation dip for stocks
- Vax stocks take their shots
- Legging into a strangle
- Games traders play
- Put trades soar after stock surge
- Bulls return to kick off holiday season
- Signaling a breakout
- Supply shocker
- Viral setback
- Puts, calls, and capitulation signals
- Year-end crosscurrents
- Have volatility, will travel
- Intraday swings and volatility pings
- V for Volatility
- Sell-offs and surges
- Interesting developments
- Growth snaps back
- Market challenges highs
- Lessons from 2021, Pt. 1
- Options talent show
- Beware the index bump?
- Inflation, gold, and the Fed
- Inflation stirs the pot
- Breaking down the Santa Claus Rally
- Lessons from 2021, Pt. 2
- The stock market in midterm election years
- Beyond oil: Commodities on the move
- Stocks close in on another record year
- Fed fuels tech volatility
- Cold start to 2022
- Small stock, big options
- Solar helps heat up market
- High-energy week
- Hit brakes or pump gas
- Matching options with forecasts
- Cloud divergence
- Navigating tech's twists
- Trading overshoots
- Tech correction
- Market slide puts VIX in spotlight
- Sell-offs and option selection
- Breaking down the pullback
- Full-boil oil
- Rocky week ends on up note
- Volatility wake-up call
- Interesting options development
- Large trader straddling earnings?
- Timing and time decay
- Stocks swing to weekly gain
- Take-downs and take-offs
- Auto stock shifting gears?
- Exhaust vs. exhaustion
- Stock weakness, sector strength
- Rebound runs into inflation, geopolitics
- Trading across the pond
- A volatility growth story
- Breaking down the options chain
- Lithium stocks diverge from trend
- Stocks cautious as international tensions persist
- The sound of misdirection
- Options strangle gets extra squeeze
- Market shock not without precedent
- Market absorbs geopolitical jolt
- Sell-offs: Buying stock vs. options
- Gold showing its true colors?
- Market seeks stability after bounce
- Sell-offs and support
- Oil on full boil
- Targeted options trading
- Rangebound stock, options on the move
- Market preps for Fed
- Buying and selling volatility
- EU generating clean energy tailwinds?
- Snapshots from a rate hike
- The “good” type of volatility
- To catch or not to catch
- VIX throttles back
- Straddle realities
- Market goes back to back
- Tech test
- Selling time and volatility
- Options in play after retracement
- Stocks pivot into Q2
- Markets weather March madness
- Options in play after retracement
- Open house for options traders?
- Market medicine
- Options food for thought
- Fed takes it to the Street
- Options volatility and stock breakouts
- Earnings—before and after
- Inflation hot, market not
- Trial by knife
- Tech talk
- Mining stocks diverge from metals
- Spreads, step-by-step
- Breakouts and butterflies
- Bounce, interrupted
- Seasonal disruption
- Pivots and head fakes
- Stocks stumble into May
- Volatility “relativity”
- Traders making earnings adjustment?
- Weighing options in a sell-off
- Stormy start to May
- Price patterns and volatility signals
- Taking stock of oil
- Retail stock, wholesale options trading
- Ranges, rallies, and volatility
- Market rerun
- Lessons from corrections and bear markets
- Tech bounce highlights spreads
- Retail stocks—discounts and markups
- Keeping tabs on the VIX
- S&P 500 pokes the bear
- Synthesizing a long trade
- Tracking the bear
- Cryptocurrency
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Mutual Funds
- What is a mutual fund?
- What type of mutual fund is right for you?
- 3 common questions about mutual funds and taxes
- Evaluating risk when investing in mutual funds
- Spotlight on liquid alternative funds
- Active vs. passive investing: Determining the right mix at the right time
- What are money market funds?
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Executive Services
- How to make an impact with sustainable investing
- Rethinking how executives view their equity compensation
- Rethinking 10b5-1 plans for strategic financial wellness
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- Passing the stress test: Leveraging a 10b5-1 plan for personal financial management
- The new abnormal: Understanding client needs in a global crisis
- Exploring financial planning alternatives with equity compensation
- Leveraging a 10b5-1 plan to access liquidity and create a balanced portfolio
- Leadership lessons from 2020: Redefining financial service through human connection
- How behavioral investing can help you make the most of your equity compensation
- Investing in company equity? Four considerations for diversifying your portfolio
- Vesting events: A financial planning perspective
- Year-end strategies: Considerations for tax-loss harvesting and charitable giving
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Sustainable Investing
- Does ethnic diversity on corporate boards affect stock prices?
- Risks and opportunities of climate change
- Tackling climate change in portfolios
- Green bond basics: What to know before investing
- Understanding and getting started in sustainable investing
- Responsible investing: Driving positive change for society and the bottom line
- Why gender diversity may lead to better returns for investors
- A deep dive on the water crisis
- Sustainable investing sentiment weathers economic uncertainty
- Is carbon capture the energy sector’s answer to a net-zero future?
- How to use gender lens investing to advance and empower women
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