If you want to get into stocks but don’t know where to start, check out these awesome posts that will help you increase your knowledge in the are. What are you waiting for? Delve deeper into the world of stock market and always stay updated about the things happening in this world.
How Building Wealth with Dividend Investing Works
The goal of most investors is to some day build enough wealth in order to stop working and do what they enjoy. The problem is that doing so takes a large amount of wealth built over time, something that may seem far-fetched to a young investor.However, by investing in dividend stocks diligently over time and reinvesting the dividend payments, investors can indeed become … [Read more...]
2 Easy Ways to Use Arbitrage to Make Money in the Stock Market
Are you familiar with the term arbitrage? It is simply the process by which you make money by taking advantage of pricing differences. And there are many ways you can use arbitrage to your advantage, including the stock market.Today we are going to look at arbitrage in detail and show you 2 simple ways you can profit from price differences in the stock market. Defining … [Read more...]
Should Investors Buy Individual Stocks or Index Funds?
There are many different asset classes to choose from. Of all the investment options out there, investors can buy individual stocks, bonds, or mutual funds that include a combination of these asset classes. In addition, real estate and commodities are investable asset classes. Over the past several decades, stocks have offered investors the highest rate of return among the … [Read more...]
Complete Beginners Guide to Closed End Funds
There are many investment options for investors to choose from. While mutual funds are a huge business, many investors are unaware that there are two types of mutual funds, open end and closed end funds.In this post, I am going to focus on talking about closed end funds, which are much smaller than their open end counterparts.By the end of the post, you will know … [Read more...]
Why a Roth 401K Plan Makes Sense For You
Most everyone knows about a 401k plan. It is a typical benefit employers provide to help their employees save for retirement. While there are many benefits to investing in a 401k plan, there are some drawbacks. As such, a new version of the 401k plan has been growing in popularity. The Roth 401k plan.In this post, we’ll walk you through everything there is to know about a … [Read more...]
For Daring Investors, Emerging Markets Offer a Good Entry Point
Since early summer of this year, we've seen a big divergence in performance between domestic stocks and emerging markets:Chart Source: Google FinanceThat's almost 20% total returns divergence.Most of the blame is currently placed on a strong dollar. The U.S. Federal Reserve has been tightening its balance sheet and raising interest rates, which makes the dollar … [Read more...]
Alternative Investments – 4 Options That Don’t Involve the Stock Market
Alternative investments are a great way to build wealth!Yes, the stock market is a great way to invest your money. However, there are plenty of options available that are just as good or better, allowing you to diversify your investments more completely than you can achieve with stock market investing. What is an Alternative Investment? Wikipedia defines alternative … [Read more...]
Day Trading Vs Investing: What’s the Difference?
The terms 'investing' and 'day trading' get tossed around a lot in the news and elsewhere, and they are often used interchangeably by people who don't really understand the difference.However, it is important to be aware that there are a few key distinctions between investing and day trading, even if in the end they are both concerned with the same basic … [Read more...]
Understanding Market Timing and How to Profit from It
There is money to be made in the stock market. How you go about investing however is totally up to you. Some investors are buy and hold types. This means they buy a stock, mutual fund or ETF and hold it for the long term. Other investors believe in market timing.Their goal is to capitalize on the short term swings of the stock market and make money over a shorter period of … [Read more...]
The Top 3 Places to Get Your Essential Stock Market News
Accurate, insightful and timely information is essential to successful day trading. If you fail to keep up to date on the latest details and the rest of the market knows something that you don't, you will quickly find yourself on the wrong end of a losing trade trying to understand exactly how you got there.Fortunately the explosive growth in retail trading has led to the … [Read more...]
