When should you Rebalance?
Let's assume that -- because of your personal and financial circumstances -- you decide to allocate your investment assets as follows: you want fifty percent of...[ reading... ]
5 Common Investment Mistakes
When investment mistakes happen, money is lost. Mistakes can occur for a variety of reasons, but they can generally be attributed to the clouding of the investo...[ reading... ]
The Rationale of Buying-and-Holding
The buy-and-hold technique is a passive investment strategy based on the premise that over long periods of time, the returns from common stocks will exceed the ...[ reading... ]
Types of Brokerage Accounts
Opening an account at a brokerage firm is as easy as opening a bank account. The investor is required to provide basic personal information, such as occupation ...[ reading... ]
More Stock Investment Strategies
There are a tremendous number of stock-buying strategies. Many of them are based on the basic fundamental- and technical analysis methods expounded upon in the ...[ reading... ]
How Events affect Perception and Investor Confiden
There are times when a company's earnings history and projections are the only solid data that you have on which to base a decision about its stock . Although t...[ reading... ]
How a Securities Trade is implemented
Securities transactions take place either on an exchange or in the over-the-counter (OTC) market. While the purpose of both is to match securities buyers and se...[ reading... ]
Explaining the P/E Ratio
One of the most common measures that investors use to evaluate a stock is its price-to-earnings (or P/E ) ratio . The P/E ratio is calculated by dividing a stoc...[ reading... ]
Glossary of Investment Terms
Like any highly specialized field of endeavor, investing has its own peculiar language, terms, and jargon. Listed below are twenty-five of the most common inves...[ reading... ]
Long, Short, Flat: What Your Position Means
The terms long, short, and flat identify an investor's market position with respect to a given stockbroker. To be long means to have a positive market position;...[ reading... ]
Let the IRS Help Your Investment Returns
Income taxes can take a serious bite out of your savings and investment plan. Fortunately, the federal government is well aware of this, and gives taxpayers a b...[ reading... ]
More Key Market Indexes
Over the years, the number of market indexes has grown substantially. For instance, in addition to its industrial average , Dow Jones Company itself now publish...[ reading... ]
