8-00 Chapter 8: Current Hot Topics in Trading

In the last 5 years, many “hot topics” have been dominating the personal investing landscape. “Short Squeeze”, penny stock bubbles, cryptocurrency spikes and crashes, insider trading, and other major waves might be what first attracted your attention to investing in the first place.

So far in this course, we have discussed the fundamentals that you need to be a successful investor in your own right – how to construct a portfolio, how to do your fundamental research and read charts, and even advanced techniques if you ever find yourself more interested in short-term trading. This chapter will focus more on the “hot topics” – not necessarily what is in the news today or tomorrow, but the general trends that come and go in the investing world, and investors are always talking about.

We will start out by talking about what covers manias, bubbles, and crashes, and discuss high-risk trading like day trading, swing trading, cryptocurrencies, and penny stocks. Next, we will talk about some of the most popular (and proven) investing strategies like “Buy and Hold” and “GARP”, before finishing with a discussion of “Short Squeezes” and insider trading.