What are Stocks? Stocks are shares of a company that sold to help that company raise money. Owning it gives you certain rights within that company and its operation. You have a right: to vote on company decisions, get a dividend each year, and considered a partial...
The stock market doesn’t look so attractive right now. Not surprisingly, activity in certain online investment forums has increased. Should You Buy An Index Fund? The “hot new” strategy moving forward is, we are told, to “just buy an index and hold it”. This advice is...
When To Sell Stocks? How high should you let it grow before taking profits? This is a question that gets asked a lot actually, and there are no easy answers here because I don’t know exactly what you own. But, ordinarily, that is one of the hardest parts of...
Saving vs Investing? People ask this question often. Over 50 years, a drop from 10% to 9% reduces cumulative growth on $100,000 by $4.3 million or 43 times your investment. That may surprise you, but it shouldn’t. It doesn’t take very much to see a...
What’s wrong with insider trading? I know the usual responses having to do with fairness and equity, and even fiduciary duty. But is the simple act of trading on information that isn’t widely known morally wrong? Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
Can you really make a living from as an Active Trader from Day Trading? Can you live off day trading in the stock market? Anyone who deals with the stock market beyond hobby will sooner or later deal with the question. In the following article, we would like to look...
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