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 [...]
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 [...]
Investing Mistakes that Will Lose You Money or Make You Cry
May 11, 2009
Over the past eleven years, I’ve seen many mistakes in the world of investing. I’ve certainly made a few myself. In just this short period of time, we’ve had the tech run and subsequent collapse. There was 9/11 and the pullback related to that. There was the emergence of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) as [...]
ShareBuilder Promotion Code Update
March 13, 2009
ShareBuilder promotion codes offer you a cash bonus when you open a new ShareBuilder account. I’ve written about ShareBuilder promo codes in the past as they’ve been updated; some readers have been a little frustrated when they tried to use old ShareBuilder coupon codes to open an online brokerage account and found that they had expired.
Well [...]
Zecco Review – Free Trades & Online Trading Fees
December 20, 2008
This Zecco review is looking at the online brokerage account options offered by Zecco, today’s topic is Zecco’s online trading fees and how they can offer free trades.
Free Stock Trades
If you have a balance of $25,000 Zecco gives you 10 free stock trades every month. Many people wonder how Zecco can just give away free trades, [...]
What Are Your Tax Questions About Buying and Selling Stocks?
December 20, 2008
Investing in the stock market has been a roller coaster ride for most people this year. With all the buying and selling of stocks and mutual funds triggered by the crazy markets, I’ve been hearing a lot of general questions about how the market will affect people’s taxes for the year.
It was one of [...]
