Whois & Analysis for tradingacademy.com

Online Trading Academy is an education company that provides education to professional traders regarding trading on financial markets.

Eyal Shahar founded the company in 1997 as a trading floor.

At one point, the business had 180 traders handling $500 million a day in transactions.

In order to improve trading results, managers and the top traders were offered daily review and coaching sessions to help the traders become more consistent and profitable.

This training program grew, and soon other companies were sending traders in for training.

In 2001, after the Dot-com bubble collapse, the company shifted to focusing solely on providing this trading strategy reviews, training and education to the general public.

A stock trader or equity trader or share trader is a person or company involved in trading equity securities.

Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker or investor.

A stock investor is an individual or company who puts money to use by the purchase of equity securities, offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value (capital gains).

This buy-and-hold long term strategy is passive in nature, as opposed to speculation, which is typically active in nature.

Many stock speculators will trade bonds (and possibly other financial assets) as well.

Stock speculation is a risky and complex occupation because the direction of the markets are generally unpredictable and lack transparency, also financial regulators are sometimes unable to adequately detect, prevent and remediate irregularities committed by malicious listed companies or other financial market participants.

Trade, or commerce, involves the transfer of goods and/or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

A network that allows trade is called a market.

The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation is constituted of the equity stock of its owners.

A single share of the stock represents fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares.

In liquidation, the stock represents the residual assets of the company that would be due to stockholders after discharge of all senior claims such as secured and unsecured debt.

Stockholders' equity cannot be withdrawn from the company in a way that is intended to be detrimental to the company's creditors.