* Swiss stocks slump after SNB scraps euro cap on franc
* Biggest one-day fall for Swiss index since 1989
* Market cap destruction estimated at $117 CHF
* Huge swings in major stocks Swatch, Richemont (Adds quotes, details; updates stock prices)

By Atul Prakash

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Frantic trading after the Swiss National Bank scrapped its cap on the franc drove Swiss stocks down 10.2 percent on Thursday, putting them on track for their biggest one-day fall in at least 25 years.

Some traders described the central bank's move as "carnage", while Swatch Chief Executive Nick Hayek called the franc's surge in value against the euro an economic "tsunami" for Switzerland, which sends more than 40 percent of its exports to the euro zone.

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with Rachel Fox of FoxOnStocks.com

Within the next year, I will compile a list of the 15 biggest stock market misconceptions and I’ll work to expose the truth of them in order to educate people, young and old, on investing the right way and on maximizing your returns, while not entirely maximizing your risk.

Just recently, in the past 5 months, I’ve learned a ton about options trading. Not just options basics 101 on what it means to buy and sell calls and puts. I’ve actually learned the mechanics of how to open and close trades from start to finish.

I’ve been learning about how deltas, volatility, vega, and gamma all are vitally important pieces of data and how to use them as guidance tools when placing options trades.  Most importantly, I’ve been learning about how trading options allows me to use up smaller amounts of buying power per trade so I’m able to have more trades on in my portfolio than when I’m trading stocks.

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by Rachel Fox of FoxOnStocks.com

I was reading and researching last night and came across an interesting list provided by TD Ameritrade, The 10 MOST Traded Stocks of 2014.  It gave me an inside look at what stocks its clients were trading most and which they held most in 2014.

TD Ameritrade is one of the biggest and most well-known trading firms. Since they service many clients of differing investing and trading levels, I’m thinking this data may be a solid sample of the rest of the trading and investing population.

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By Chris Berry

The last constructive note I wrote on the uranium space occurred in March of 2014. My thesis was simple: a glut of excess capacity on world markets coupled with financing challenges for juniors and developers portrayed a sector that, despite the long-term positives, was set to underperform other commodities or indices.

It was time to take profits.

My timing couldn’t have been better with an equal-weighted basket of uranium names I’m tracking falling by almost 38% last year (this doesn’t take into account currency conversions, either, which likely would have hurt returns even more). Until one of several catalysts came into being including the oft-delayed re-start of some Japanese reactors or significantly higher uranium prices, uranium plays were likely best left on a watch list. It was also interesting to note that while the spot price of uranium rose to over $40 per pound in 2014 and a host of geopolitical issues with Russia rose to the fore, the froth didn’t transfer over to uranium equity price appreciation regardless of the market cap.

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