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• Zecco Online Broker Review

  Zecco was founded on July 4th, 2006 in San Francisco, California. Starting the business on Independence Day wasn't a coincidence. The opening date was symbolic of their corporate mission. Zecco was founded with a singular, revolutionary idea - to democratize investing by taking away the friction of transaction costs.

• Efficient Market Hypothesis: R.I.P.

  Of all the belief systems of Wall Street, few can claim the devoted following of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the idea that stock prices adhere to the same laws of supply-and-demand that govern retail products. Once coined the theoretical "Parthenon" of economics, this notion has consistently endured the test of time ----- until now.

• How to Make Money with Options Using the Max Pain Theory

  This is a strategy for trading options that has worked well for us in the past, and we expect this method to continue generating quick profits for us in the future. This strategy will use butterfly spreads to make money in the last week before options expiration. The downside to this particular strategy is that we can only use it at a certain time of each month.

• A Basic Introduction to Shorting Stocks

  Stock shorting is a high risk trading strategy used by sophisticated investors who believe that the value of a company's stock is going to fall, and they want to profit when it does. The act of shorting is selling share of a stock that you do not own, in anticipation of the stock value dropping so you can buy it back at a later date…for less money than you sold it. In other words, you’re trying to buy low and sell high, but in reverse.

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• CBOE Reports July 2010 Trading Volume (August 2, 2010)

  The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) today reported that daily volume in July averaged 3.9 million contracts, a six-percent decline from June 2010 average daily volume (ADV) of 4.1 million contracts and down 11 percent from July 2009 ADV of 4.3 million contracts.

  With one less trading day in the month, July 2010 trading volume at CBOE totaled just under 81.0 million contracts, versus 90.7 million contracts in June 2010 and 95.1 million contracts in July 2009. Year-to-date ADV through July was up five percent compared with the same period in 2009.

• CME Group Volume Averaged 10.8 Million Contracts per Day in July 2010, Up 12 Percent (August 3, 2010)

  

  CME Group today announced that July volume averaged 10.8 million contracts per day, up 12 percent from July 2009. Total volume was 227 million contracts for July, of which 83 percent was traded electronically.

  In July 2010, CME Group interest rate volume averaged 4.5 million contracts per day, up 8 percent compared with the prior July. Treasury futures volume averaged 2.0 million contracts per day, up 35 percent compared with the same period in 2009, and Treasury options volume averaged 235,000 contracts per day, up 13 percent. Eurodollar futures volume averaged 1.5 million contracts per day, down 16 percent versus July 2009, while Eurodollar options volume averaged 657,000 contracts per day, up 8 percent.

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