Don't buy just one stock when you buy shares. Buy at least four or five. Most of the time, even the most skilled professional can only pick seven winners out of ten. What if he had only bought the wrong three, even though he thought they were...
Einstein once said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the world. If you use this reasoning to buy a stock on the stock market, your money will double in ten years. Using this logic even more, if you put 5% down on a home, you...
If you want to grow your money by investing it, you might have thought about a high-interest savings account at a bank, the stock market, bonds, and other options. The stock market is, of course, the fastest way to make money, but it is also the...
Gold is the topic that I get the most emails, letters, and phone calls about. Being a gold bug seems to come with an almost religious zeal. People who worship gold are often surprised by my view that gold prices will go down. Still, year after...
The roots of today's market go back to the agricultural markets of the 1800s, when farmers started selling contracts to deliver their crops at a later date. This was done to predict what the market would need and keep supply and demand stable...
Before recently, the forex market, also called the foreign exchange market, wasn't for the average trader or speculator. Due to the large minimum transaction sizes and often strict financial requirements, the main participants were banks, hedge...
If you're thinking about trading on the foreign currency exchange market, or forex, and the song "Money" by Pink Floyd with its "cha-ching" sound is playing in your head, you might want to read this article first. With so many forex brokers out...
There are both discount stock brokers and full-service stock brokers who work online. Discount brokers offer very few services and don't pay much attention to each client. Usually, they only offer fast order execution at low costs. Don't expect...
Silly question you may say! You can buy stocks through your broker or online with your brokerage account, of course.
But ...
If you want to buy foreign stocks, it's not always that easy, which is something you shouldn't really...
A contract for difference (CFD) is an agreement between two parties to trade the difference between the opening price and the closing price of a contract, multiplied by the number of shares as calculated at the end of the contract.
CFDs...