{"id":14801,"date":"2010-11-02T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2010-11-02T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T16:30:19","slug":"how-to-make-money-from-both-sides-of-a-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/02\/how-to-make-money-from-both-sides-of-a-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Money From Both Sides of a Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sara Nunnally, Editor, Smart Investing Daily, TaipanPublishingGroup.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

About a month ago, I was speaking in a conference room at the Venetian in Las Vegas. We were presenting our 2010 Global Summit<\/a>, and I was introducing the book I co-authored with our executive publisher Sandy Franks.<\/p>\n

It’s called Barbarians of Wealth: Protecting Yourself from Today’s Financial Attilas<\/a><\/em>, and in it we outline four defensive strategies to help you protect your wealth from modern-day financial barbarians.<\/p>\n

I told our conference attendees that defensive strategies aren’t the only ways to play the market — even in these tumultuous times.<\/p>\n

I gave out three new ways in my presentation last month. One was to play the market itself. In a way, that means making money from both sides of a trade.<\/p>\n

For example, we could be talking about exchanges…<\/p>\n

You see, money flows through these companies. Exchanges make money from each and every trade that’s made on them… and they charge companies fees to list — kind of like dues.<\/p>\n

Consider the volume of trades just on the New York Stock Exchange<\/a> on Friday alone: 3.538 BILLION!<\/p>\n

The NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYX:NYSE<\/a><\/strong>), the company that owns the NYSE, makes a cut off of every single one of those trades.<\/p>\n

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Today, there are a number of exchanges that are publicly traded:<\/p>\n