stock investing
Stock investing has grown in popularity with the advent of discount brokerages that reduced the fees involved in trading individual stocks. Along with investing, the appetite for stock advice surged, spawning books, newsletters and televisions shows related to the topic.
There are enough stock market risk factors out there already—listening to permabears, commercial alarmists or magic numbers just makes it worse.
An investor’s wealth mindset can often determine their investment success. What kind of wealth mindset do you have?
Mutual fund trading can be risky—and will likely hurt your long-term returns.
Trading on the after hours market can easily do more harm than good to your portfolio returns.
Penny stock investing is for gamblers. We think you are better off using these alternative financial planning tips to prepare for the long haul.
Spot the most undervalued stocks in three steps and by using these nine financial, safety and growth factors
High dividend yields and low P/E ratios are two signs that you need to research a stock very thoroughly before investing in it.
Speculative stocks are always a risk, understanding the nature of those risks is key
In the 18th century, pioneering economist Adam Smith said that the public tends to overvalue “speculative ventures”. We think this makes excellent investing advice for present day investors in speculative stocks.
When a speculative stock is losing money, it has a great deal of freedom to ponder on its future. With a little imagination, it can always show that anything’s possible, based on a logical series of events that it says will take place as it advances inevitably toward profitability. Meanwhile, it doesn’t need to worry that its price-to-earnings or p/e ratio is too high, since it doesn’t have one—it has no “e”.
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