Rule of 72 & Compound Interest
June 27, 2009
The rule of 72 is a formula that can help you approximate how your investments will grow in a retirement or other investment account.
The rule has its history in the 15th century and reached common knowledge when Albert Einstein explained his thoughts on the power of compounding interest. Basically, the rule calculates how long it [...]
Day Trading Overview
June 22, 2009
Day trading by individual investors became really popular when online brokerage accounts came onto the scene. You probably remember the late 1990’s, when the market was running faster than Olympic sprinters, people were re-financing their homes and taking withdrawals from their 401ks to dive into the day trading pool. Unfortunately, many of these people lost a [...]
Stock Investing Strategies for the Long Term
June 19, 2009
“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.” – Warren Buffett
If you think of day trading as a series of one night stands, long term investing is that one that sticks. [...]
Day Trading vs. Long Term Investing
June 18, 2009
Day traders and long term investors can both make money in the stock market. The different approaches of buying and selling stocks vs buying and holding them require different strategies and come with different levels of risk.
Day Trading
Day trading has been a part of investing for a few decades now. Before 1975, all commissions on [...]
Technical Analysis & Stock Charts
June 12, 2009
Technical analysis of stocks is defined by Investopedia as the “method of evaluating securities by analyzing statistics generated by market activity, such as past prices and volume. Technical analysts do not attempt to measure a security’s intrinsic value, but instead use charts and other tools to identify patterns that can suggest future activity”.
Technical Analysis
In the [...]
Morningstar for Mutual Fund Research
June 6, 2009
Morningstar is a good place for mutual fund research that offers investors more information than simply fund performance. Morningstar is known for its unbiased reporting and analysis and it has a tremendous amount of free information available. It does have a premium service that offers fund analyst reports and portfolio analysis tools but everything we’ll talk [...]
The Best Mutual Funds for Your Money
June 5, 2009
The best mutual funds is a common headline in many financial magazines, followed by a list of the top mutual funds by performance or the best mutual funds of the year. While these lists of investments can be helpful when trying to put together a portfolio on your own; one of the biggest mistakes you can [...]
Stock Dividends 101
June 4, 2009
When doing research on an individual stock, one important thing to look at is if it pays dividends. These are payments that a company makes to its investors on its outstanding shares. These dividends are paid out on both common and preferred shares. Due to the structure of preferred stock, those shares must be paid [...]
Stock Market Index Cheat Sheet
May 26, 2009
The stock market indexes are names you’ve probably heard before if you follow any financial news. Every day commentators report on the Dow being up, the S&P 500 being flat, or the Nasdaq being down; here’s a short cheat sheet on what the major indexes represent.
Domestic Market Indexes
Dow Jones Industrial Average: Also known as the DOW, the [...]
Stock Prices - Why They Go Up & Down
May 18, 2009
The price of a stock is determined by what people are willing to pay for it. At whatever point the demand of buyers meets the supply of sellers, the price of the stock is created. There may be someone out there trying to sell their AIG stock for $50 a share, but there are no [...]
