Category: Investing

How Much Fraud Is There in Options Trading?

A recently published study on details of options trading events surrounding mergers and acquisitions compellingly argues (on the basis of statistical analysis) that as many as 25% of all mergers and acquisitions involving publicly traded companies may be accompanied by…

What Does it Mean to be Upside Down or Underwater?

You have heard the expression a hundred times: “I was upside down and couldn’t do anything”, or “we were underwater and feeling like we had been robbed”. Ever since the Great Recession of 2008-9 millions of people have found themselves…