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You are probably here because you were looking up the price of $CART and saw a company called “Maplebear Inc?” What does this mean? What is Maplebear and is the stock website I’m on making a mistake? The answer is no. Maplebear Inc is the same company as Instacart Maplebear Inc is a Delware C-Corp […]

Mutual fund splits are real – they just don’t come up very often. They work almost exactly like stock splits: the share count changes, the price per share changes, and the total value of what you own doesn’t change at all. The one twist is how mutual funds are priced, and that twist is why […]

Mutual fund prices work differently from almost every other price in markets, and the difference trips up plenty of smart people. A stock’s price changes every second the market is open. A mutual fund’s price is calculated exactly once per trading day, after the market closes. Understand that one fact, and most of the confusion […]

An Overview of the Cryptocurrency Market The crypto market never closes. There is no opening bell, no weekend, no holiday schedule – just a continuous stream of trades running across hundreds of venues around the world, every hour of every day. That structure changes how trading works, and it is why crypto trading strategies deserve […]

The VIX might be the most quoted number in finance that you cannot actually buy. There is no share of it, no fund that simply holds it, no order ticket anywhere that fills at the level you see on TV. It is an index – a calculation – and that one fact changes everything about […]

AI stock trading gets sold to you in two flavors. In one pitch, it’s a money machine: hand your portfolio to an algorithm and let the profits roll in while you sleep. In the other, it’s a menace that will one day crash the markets. Both make great headlines. Neither is a useful description of […]