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 […]
Penny Stocks: Cheap, But Sometimes You Get What You Pay For
June 1, 2009
In the world of investing, everybody is looking for the next Microsoft. Who wouldn’t want to find an unknown stock for next to nothing and watch it become the dominant name in its industry? The problem is that, for every Microsoft, there are thousands of other companies that go the way of the 8-track tape […]
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 […]
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 […]
