Many investors are familiar with the rules for trading U.S. stocks, but not the rules for options. Do you know, for example, what is the minimum number of shares to trade in U.S. stock options? Can you buy and sell only one share? Let’s do a quick overview.

Although U.S. stock trading rules have no limit on the number of shares you can buy or sell, you can trade as little as one share, or 1,000 shares or more. But with options, the rules are different. When trading options, the unit is the contract, the minimum transaction is 1 contract, and 1 contract contains 100 option shares. So exactly, the minimum number of options to trade is 100 shares.

A simple example: If I bought a Bank of America (BAC) put contract due in July with its latest offer of $0.64, the total amount required to buy the contract would be $0.64*100= $64.

Reference link:

http://www.usstockwatcher.com/what-is-the-minimum-amount-of-shares-required-when-trading-options-on-the-us-stock-market/

Crude oil is one of hottest commodities on the market, and it is also loved and actively traded by investors all around the world. If you’re interested in trading crude oil, there are 3 most common ways to do that. Let’s take a look at these methods one by one.

The first and foremost method is to open a stock trading accounts, so you can invest in EFTs. The second way of trading crude oil is through the Forex trading platforms. And the last one is to trade crude oil futures.

When you have a stock trading account, you can trade oil ETFs, which is a relatively safer, low-risk way of investing in crude oil. The smallest amount you can trade is 1 share. A lot of for Forex trading platforms also offer WTI and Brent oil CFDs, and some platforms allow you to trade 0.01 lot or even smaller amount, which is quite similar to 1 share of ETFs.  The two methods are somewhat similar in terms of giving you better risk control.

Notice that if you trade with a Stock broker, you probably don’t have to pay any fees because a lot of Stock brokers now offer zero commission, which means you don’t have to pay anything for trading stocks and ETFs, so this can be very advantageous to a trader.

On the other hand, if you trade oil on a Forex trading platform. Most likely, you will end up paying for it. The Commission will vary depending on the platforms. So it’s better to investigate the trading commission structure before you start trading on Forex platforms.

There is also a third way that you can trade crude oil, that is, trade oil futures through a stock broker. This method is generally very expensive to trade, because the commission is higher. Besides, the minimum amount involved in futures trading is generally a lot higher than ETFs or CFDs. So it’s quite risky to speculate on crude oil futures. We suggest we you stick to the first two methods when trading oil, especially when you just get started.

So the above are our views in 3 of the best ways to trade crude oil. What are your experiences with crude oil trading. Please share your experience or insights with us in the comment section.

Bitcoin is by far the most popular crypto coin on the market. A lot of invests or speculators trade bitcoin for a profit, and some of them have been quite successful in doing that. People can buy Bitcoin using various payment methods, but does that mean you can also buy Bitcoin using PayPal? And if the answer is yes, which platforms allow you to do just that? In this post, we’ll try to give you a quick and clear explanation.

Can you buy Bitcoin with PayPal? The short answer is yes. While not a lot of websites or platforms allow you to do that, some of them do provide the service.

As far as we know, currently, there are at least 3 websites that can offer the PayPal to Bitcoin buying service. The names are as follows:

• Paxful
• Localbitcoins
• eToro

Although the above platforms all allow you to buy bitcoin with PayPal. There are differences. Paxful and Localbitcoins are a P2P buying platform, which means you can purchase actual Bitcoins from other individuals (the sellers), and you can store your bitcoins in your bitcoin wallet. eToro is actually an online forex broker, and it allows you to trade Bitcoins for profit. But for now, most traders don’t actually own the real bitcoins.

YouMoneyPal has personally tested Paxful and eToro, and they both work well in terms of buying and selling Bitcoins. We didn’t actually test Localbitcoins, but according to our research, Localbitcoins is very similar to Paxful in terms of how it works.

If you are looking to buy Bitcoins using PayPal, you should try out the above websites, and don’t forget to share your experiences with us.

The A-share stock market in mainland China has grown rapidly in recent years. At present, there are more than 3780 stocks in total. But do you know which stocks have the highest price among them?

Below, we listed the 5 stocks with the highest share price in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets, and their prices as of January 15, 2020:

• KweiChow MouTai (贵州茅台，latest share price: 1108 yuan)
• CCHN (长春高新，latest share price: 483 yuan)
• Maxscend (卓胜微，latest share price: 429 yuan)
• G-bits (吉比特，latest share price: 368 yuan)
• Goodix (汇顶科技，latest share price: 265 yuan)

From the above list, we can see that the stock with highest price (No.1) per share is KweiChow MouTai , which is in the industry of liquor. KweiChow MouTai is the only stock with share price above 1,000 at present. The second place is CCHN, whose industry is biopharmaceutical. There is a large price gap between the first and second place stocks.

Note: This article was recently updated on January 15, 2020.

Large cap stocks are favored by many funds and individual investors because of their large size and stable operation. So in the Hong Kong stock market, which companies are in the top five with the largest market capitalization? Here is a quick introduction.

As of January 11, 2020, Alibaba (Stock symbol: 09988) has the largest market value in Hong Kong stock market, and its current market value is 4662.3 billion (close to 4.7 trillion). Tencent Holdings (Stock symbol: 00700), with a current market value of 3.8 trillion, ranks the second in market value. No. 3 is China Construction Bank. The fourth and fifth stocks are China Mobile (00941) and HSBC Holdings (00005).

It should be noted that the currency of the above market value is Hong Kong dollar.

Note: This article was recently updated on January 11, 2020.