Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

Crypto’s spot trading markets are simple. Buy or sell bitcoin at the market price, whenever and wherever you want, no funny business. However, yet more money can be made (or lost) through derivatives ...