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Understanding Options Contracts

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How To Choose An Options Contract (YouTube link ) The above video offers a basic overview of options trading, focusing on key factors when choosing an options contract. Consider the various expiration dates available. The choice depends on your trading strategy. For weekly trades, focus on the nearest expiration. For swing trades, opt for a later expiration date based on your expectations. Key Points: Platform: The speaker recommends Interactive Brokers Pro (IBKR Pro) for its fast execution speeds . Options Chain: This is the interface where you view available options contracts. Key Metrics: The most essential metrics include last price, net change, delta, open interest, volume, theta, bid, and ask . Delta: Measures the sensitivity of an option's price to changes in the underlying asset's price.  In other words, delta shows how much an option's price changes for each $1 move in the underlying stock .  Relationship between option price sensitivity (delta) and premi...

Clipchamp Eating Up Space? Here's How to Free Up Storage

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What's Clipchamp Clipchamp is a user-friendly online video editor offered by Microsoft with powerful features that doesn't require software downloads.  It packs a punch for video editing, letting you: Trim & crop videos Add animated text Record voiceovers & subtitles Apply transitions & effects Use green screens Enhance audio Access stock media Low disk space culprit: Clipchamp's data usage Warning: Mind Your Hard Drive Space  Clipchamp can gobble up storage space on your computer for a couple of reasons: Cache: Clipchamp caches previews , project files, and other temporary data to speed things up when you're editing. This cache can grow large, especially if you've imported a lot of media files. IndexedDB : Clipchamp uses a browser technology called IndexedDB to store project data. In some cases, this data can become bloated or corrupted, leading to unnecessary storage use. Unlike the cache, messing with IndexedDB can potentially lead to losing ...

Keeping Track of Your Roth Conversion: Key Tax Forms

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How to Complete IRS Form 8606 (for a Backdoor Roth IRA; YouTube link ) There are two key tax reports you'll want to receive for a Roth conversion: Form 1099-R from your custodian (the financial institution holding your traditional IRA): This form reports the total distribution amount from your traditional IRA. In the case of a Roth conversion, the distribution amount will represent the fair market value of your entire traditional IRA account (including contributions and earnings) on the conversion date. Box 7 of the 1099-R will likely have a code indicating a rollover or conversion (typically code "R"). Form 8606 (titled "Nondeductible IRAs"): This form, filed with your tax return, tells the IRS how much of your Roth conversion was from non-deductible contributions you previously made to your traditional IRA. It's important to report this correctly, as only the portion converted from earnings in your traditional IRA is taxable. This form he...

How To Create A Facebook Business Page In 2023

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  How To Create A Facebook Business Page In 2023 (YouTube link ) Prerequisites of Creating a Facebook Business Page Your business page is where people go to learn more about your business.  Make sure that yours has all of the information they may need.  Before you start creating a new Facebook (FB) account, you need to get the below information collected or steps done:  Creating your personal FB account if not done yet A good page name to identify your business A good category name you're operating in (e.g., Jewellery & watches company) Prepare a list of keywords that are related to your business (e.g., Jewellery, wholesaler, etc.) Preparing Bio information (optional) To tell people a little about what your business do Getting your business contact information ready Which includes contact (e.g., website, phone number , and email address ), location and hours Preparing " profile picture " (i.e., logo for your business) and " cover photo " to be used You c...

Blogger: 2 Ways to Recover Deleted Blog Post

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While migrating posts from one blog to another, I have inadvertently lost some posts in the following steps: Opened post on the old blog in editing mode Copied and pasted it to a new post on the new blog Somehow, my new posts were lost in the middle of process. Also, I have deleted all posts on the old blog immediately after they were copied. The end result is that I cannot find migrated posts on both the old and new blogs. Here are the approaches I have taken to recover them. Google Cache Google search engine  crawls article posted frequently, indexes them and saves a cache version of the page.  It also keeps on updating it in a timely manner. As described in [1], I have started looking for my lost posts in the " Google cache " first.  This approach works for posts that have been published.   To find deleted blog posts, type the following URL in Google search: Blogger  site: yourblogname.blogspot.com Sites site: sites.google.c...

How to Invest in A Rising Rate Environment?

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(Updated on 12/27/2021) To see broad and persistent price inflation in an economy, we generally need two things . The first is a persistent rise in broad money supply , and the second is a physical constraint on our ability to produce more commodities, goods, or services cheaply . ― Lyn Alden  Declines in the working population relative to the nonworking population is an inflationary force. ―  Jesse Felder After all, populism , protectionism and deficit spending are all inflation ary . ― Deutsche Bank's Aleksandar Kocic Inflation Awakening (July 2018) ―Pimco In truth, inflation is all about the destruction of confidence in a fiat currency’s purchasing power . And there is no better way to do that than for the government to massively increase the supply of money and place it directly into the hands of its citizenry. In other words, helicopter money and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) were deployed—and in a big way. The result was the largest increase of inflation in 40 ...