BASIC ECONOMICS FOR INVESTORS

• Understanding Systemic Risk
• Understanding Unsystemic Risk
• Understanding the Paradox of Thrift
• Understanding the Fractional Reserve Banking System

ECONOMIC CRISIS AND BAILOUTS

• What Are Zombie Banks?
• How Does a Liquidity Trap Affect Investors?
• Risks of Monetizing U.S. Government Debt
• Who Pays When the Government Bails Out the Market
• Stimulus or Broken Window? Beware Diversification Fallacies
• How Quantitative Easing Works
• The Federal Reserve's Response to the Credit Crisis
• Trickle Down Economics: AKA Stimulus Spending

ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR INVESTORS

• Mutual Fund Redemptions Help You Determine a Market Bottom
• Understanding the U.S. Treasury's TIC Data
• Mortgage Rates and the 10-Year Yield
• Fed Funds Futures -- Understanding Expectations
• Understanding the Yield Curve
• Monitoring Inflation with the TIPS Spread
• Understanding the LIBOR Spread
• Understanding the TED Spread
• Understanding LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate)
• Understanding the Baltic Dry Index
• Understanding Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)
• The Yield Curve and Investor Sentiment

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS

• Economy Chokes as Banks Hoard Cash
• Understanding Money of Zero Maturity (MZM)
• Netting and Credit Default Swaps
• Understanding Credit Default Swaps

ECONOMIC REPORTS AND NEWS

• Trading the Durable Goods and Building Permits Numbers
• Why Consumer Confidence Reports Matter
• Understanding the Weekly Unemployment Claims Number
• The List of FDIC-Insured Problem Institutions
• Understanding the ISM Manufacturing PMI Number
• Why Investors Care About Retail Sales
• Understanding the Senior Loan Officer Survey
• The Truth Behind Unemployment Reports

RECESSIONS, INFLATION AND DEFLATION

• Does a CPI Drop Lead to Deflation?
• How to Trade the U.S. Dollar Index
• Understanding V, U, W, and L Shaped Recessions
• Understanding Stagflation
• Using TIPS to Profit From Inflation
• How Quantitative Easing Works
• Who Decides When We are in a Recession?
• Profiting From Deflation and Inflation

THE FEDERAL RESERVE DEMYSTIFIED

• Fed Funds Futures -- Understanding Expectations
• Structure of the Federal Reserve
• Risks of Monetizing U.S. Government Debt
• Why the Fed Pays Interest on Excess Reserves
• Is the Fed Really Running the Printing Presses?
• What is the Fed's Balance Sheet
• Fed Currency Swaps and the U.S. Dollar
• Understanding What it Means When the Fed Cuts Rates
• The Federal Reserve's Response to the Credit Crisis
• The Federal Reserve's Open Market Operations
• The Goals of the Federal Reserve
• The Monetary Policy Tools of the Federal Reserve
• How Do Central Banks Affect the Forex?

BASIC RULES FOR ANY INVESTING STRATEGY

• Long Term vs. Short Term Trading -- Avoiding the Pitfalls
• How Much Should You Risk in the Options Market?
• Smart vs. Not-So-Smart Diversification
• Trade Smaller to Make More Money
• Is Your Job Like a Stock or a Bond?
• Does Trading The Pre-Market Give Traders an Advantage?
• Understanding Stop Loss Orders
• Understanding How Stocks and Bonds Work Together
• Dividend Stocks or Growth - Do You Have to Choose?
• What is Bargain Hunting or Value Investing?
• Using Fibonacci Analysis To Create Trading Strategies
• Determining Expectancy in Your Trading
• Fighting Time Value with Vertical Spreads
• Diversification and Indexing

BEAR MARKET INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Using Pairs Trades in Uncertain Markets
• How to Use Option Collars to Protect Your Stock
• Profit in Bear or Bull Markets With Calendar Spreads
• Using Dividend Stocks in a Bear Market
• V-Reversals and Legal Short Selling
• Using Options to Hedge a Falling Dollar

DIVIDENDS AND INCOME INVESTING

• [WEBINAR] Why Dividends Matter to Investors
• Growth Stocks are a lot Like Ponzi Schemes
• Turbo-Charge Your Dividend Investing
• Investing in Real Estate Through ETFs and Stocks
• Using Dividend Stocks in a Bear Market
• Dividend Stocks or Growth - Do You Have to Choose?

HEDGING YOUR BETS WITH OPTIONS

• How to Use Option Collars to Protect Your Stock
• Combining LEAPS Index Options and Bonds
• Reducing Time-Value Erosion by Adding a Credit Spread
• Increasing Profits with Covered Calls on LEAPS
• Using LEAPS Options to Avoid a Value-Trap
• Option Collars for Volatile Markets

INVESTING IN COMMODITIES

• Contango Isn't a Dance from Argentina
• A Weak Dollar Can Make Commodities More Profitable
• Trading the Crude Oil Inventory Numbers
• Learn to Profit at the Gas Pump
• How to Buy Gold in Your Brokerage Account
• Commodity Stocks vs. Commodity ETFs - Which is Better?
• How Contango Affects Commodity ETFs
• Investing in Oil Through ETFs
• Investing in Oil Through Oil ETFs
• What's Driving Gold Prices?
• What Happens When Gold Diverges from the USD?
• Understanding and Trading the COT Report
• Using the Oil VIX (OVX) to Forecast Energy Prices
• Trading Oil with Index Options

TRADING THE NEWS AND ECONOMIC EVENTS

• [WEBINAR] Trading First Quarter Earnings Season
• [WEBINAR] Trading Strategies for This Earnings Season
• Buy the Rumor, Sell the News
• Using LEAPS to Invest In China
• Trading Stock and Futures Price-Gaps
• Why Financial Writers and Analysts Mislead Readers
• Trading Option Straddles During Earnings Releases
• Four Ways to Invest in the Stimulus
• Speculating with Credit Default Swaps
• Profiting From Deflation and Inflation
• Earnings Season is Here...Find Out How to Trade It
• How Investors Profit from Infrastructure Spending

OPTIONS INVESTING BASICS

• Option Moneyness: In the Money, At the Money and Out of the Money
• Option Styles: American Vs. European
• How Much Should You Risk in the Options Market?
• Binary Options: Not Ready for Investors
• Predicting Volatility with The VIX
• Understanding Call Options
• The Options Chain Sheet
• Understanding Put Options
• What Happens to Stocks and Options During a Bankruptcy?
• Choosing At-the-Money, In-the-Money or Out-of-the-Money Options
• Exercise Assignment and Expiration for Option Traders
• How to Position Size an Option Trade

OPTION INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Buying Stocks at a Discount by Selling Put Options
• Using LEAPS to Invest In China
• How to Trade Option Iron Condors
• Building a Diversified, Low-Cost, High-Performance ETF Portfolio
• Trading Option Straddles During Earnings Releases
• How to Use Option Collars to Protect Your Stock
• Combining LEAPS Index Options and Bonds
• Profit in Bear or Bull Markets With Calendar Spreads
• Trading Covered Calls
• Reducing Time-Value Erosion by Adding a Credit Spread
• Covered Calls the EZ Way
• Option Trading Strategy - Calendar Spread
• Increasing Profits with Covered Calls on LEAPS
• Using LEAPS Options to Avoid a Value-Trap
• Profiting from Rising or Falling Bonds
• Option Collars for Volatile Markets
• V-Reversals and Legal Short Selling
• Fighting Time Value with Vertical Spreads
• Trading Oil with Index Options
• Using Options to Hedge a Falling Dollar
• Short Call Options
• Option Trading Strategy - Short Straddles
• Option Trading Strategy - Long Straddles

OPTION GREEKS DEMYSTIFIED

• Using Option Greeks: Theta
• Using Option Greeks: Implied Volatility
• Using Option Greeks: Delta
• Projecting Call and Put Options Prices
• Options - Understanding Delta