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Stocks made simple; the essentials of stock trading and how stocks are priced, bought and sold.
4 Reasons Day Traders Lose Money
Day trading can be a very lucrative profession. When things go right, day traders can make incredible amounts of money in very short periods of time, far outpacing more casual investors. But day traders can also lose big. In fact, most experts believe that the majority of day traders—perhaps even a supermajority—lose money.
By Claire Peters7 years ago in Trader
How to Become a Hedge Fund Manager
If you take a look at the most successful people on Wall Street, you'll quickly notice that a lot of them are hedge fund managers. They are the ones who create amazing private funds entirely composed of high quality stock market picks, individual commodities, and other investment vehicles—all with the sole purpose of maximizing profits for their elite clientele.
By Iggy Paulsen7 years ago in Trader
Robinhood vs. Stash
When it comes to long term options for accumulating financial profits, nothing is as secure as the stock market. This day and age, it is not common knowledge that even the average Joe can make a shiny penny off investing in stocks, provided they do their research and play their cards right. With the cost of living on a climb, financial security is guaranteed to no one. Therefore, the impact investing your side cash into America’s open market can have on your life should be too obvious to ignore. I like to consider it as a savings account that puts your money to work, with the potential to see profits no bank in the world could match.
By Carlos Guerra7 years ago in Trader
10 Warning Signs That Suggest a Stock Isn't Legit
The stock market is supposed to be a safe place to trade—to a point. Risk will always be a part of investing, but the idea that people want to see is the possibility that risk will be mitigated by statistics and data given to you by companies.
By Cato Conroy7 years ago in Trader
How Many Millennials Invest in the Stock Market?
Millennials seem to be hated by every other demographic out there—often, unfairly so. We're called lazy. We're called whiny. We're called the "Me Generation," and are often told that we lack the life skills we need to survive.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart7 years ago in Trader
Price to Earnings Ratio: Know the Most Common Price Multiple for Picking Stocks
Buying stocks and investing whether short term or long term require an amount of knowledge that must be built over time. The investing toolbox you develop while researching the market is what will separate you from gamblers and a speculators.
By Christopher Sarda7 years ago in Trader
Apple's $1 Trillion Dollar Evaluation
As the news has been constantly blaring recently, Apple now has a $1 trillion dollar market cap. That's $1,000,000,000,000. This doesn't mean that in their bank account $1T rests. In fact, it means that all of Apple's assets (like their huge new 'space ship' campus and all of their stores around the globe) and their income means that if somebody or some company wanted to purchase Apple, they would need to cough up around $1 trillion.
By Alex Jones8 years ago in Trader
How To Start Investing in the Stock Market Without Knowing Anything
Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to be honest with you. I'm not a genius financier. I'm not a financial advisor, nor am I really that bright when it comes to investments. However, even though I am not a Wharton graduate, I can still teach you how to invest in the stock market successfully.
By Iggy Paulsen8 years ago in Trader
Everything You Need to Know About Short Selling
In the traditional forms of trading, the trader buys or sells the securities that he already owns. However, in some cases, a trader borrows the securities like stocks and sells the borrowed securities. This process is called short selling. Short selling is the practice in which the trader or the investor sells the shares that he does not currently own. The securities are borrowed from a broker and then sold, hoping that the prices of the shares will go down, so that when the prices go down the investor can buy them at lower prices and return them to the lender. In this process, the investor is able to make profits in the bear market due to the difference in the low buying price and the high selling price. Here is everything you need to know about short selling.
By Leila Parker8 years ago in Trader
How to Build a Portfolio on $8.50 an Hour. Top Story - June 2018.
I'm currently writing a book on money-making apps. While I was researching the apps for respectable gambling (AKA investing), I talked to the Indiana Secretary of State’s office for a brief description of what exactly these apps do. Basically, they engage in a somewhat risky form of investment called mutual funds. Mutual funds are the top investment funds for most Americans, and they give us cheap, easy access to stocks, bonds, and other types of assets. They add up much faster than a traditional bank account, and the Indiana Secretary of State recommends a booklet called Mutual Funds and ETFs: Maybe All You’ll Ever Need.
By Becky Oberg8 years ago in Trader
Ultimate Guide to Investing in Defense and Military Stocks. Top Story - June 2018.
If you were to take a close look at news releases today, you would swear that we are on the verge of another major war. Planes are being shot down, our president is bickering with global leaders, and tension can be felt in the air.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart8 years ago in Trader
