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The start of the year brings new companies into focus for investors, particularly those that had a poor showing in the prior year. There are a few different ways to classify these opportunities, but …
With the end of the year, there are all sorts of predictions about the next. But more important than predictions are specific investment ideas.
There are a few ways to take advantage of the changing c…
One of the best-performing stocks of the 2010’s was Netflix. And, with 2019’s
big push for new streaming services, the competition is heating up.
The most interesting competitor to emerge this year was…
Decades of investment data can reveal a lot of interesting patterns. A fun seasonal one right now is that of the Santa Claus Rally. Simply put, it’s the propensity for stocks to rally into the end of…
Tesla Motors Continues to Innovate, But Will Shareholders Benefit?
There’s no room in life for complacency. Capitalism has been described as a form of “creative destruction,” whereby new products and …
Markets often top out for a while—or go through a multi-month correction—when greed gets rampant. There are a lot of ways to look at this phenomenon. It can happen when everyday folks are suddenly in…
Typically, celebrities and investing seem like two entirely different subjects. That hasn’t always been true. There’s actually been a rich history of celebrities getting involved with publicly-traded…
There are many ways to invest—and many potential ways to beat the market.
But one way, more than any other, will result in different returns than the market. Done right, it means beating the pants off…
We all come into some extra money from time to time. Whether it’s from a birthday card from a relative, some cash found in the pocket of an old jacket, or even just literally found on the street, tha…
What Warren Buffett’s Investment Strategy Tells Us About Today’s Values
Only a few investors have come close to Warren Buffett’s track record. Over the decades, he’s beaten the market handily. That su…
As tempting as it is to just dive into trading, it’s important to know a few things first. Knowing these “rules of the game” ensure you’re going in with sufficient knowledge to profit more often than…
While most investors think of the potential returns possible, they do so at the danger of overlooking the flip side to the equation: Risk. All investments have risks. It may be the risk of a bond los…
The stock market can do a lot of things efficiently. It can digest news about a company’s performance in seconds, for instance.
But it also picks up on the fear or greed of traders. If traders think …
How Stocks Are the Best Game in Town For Income
When most people think of the stock market, they think of big price swings
that can make—or lose—a fortune quickly.
While that’s certainly a component to…
What Investment Beginners
Really
Need to Know About Investing
There’s a lot of excitement around investing—and rightly so. It’s possible to
build a fortune. But it’s also possible to lose your shirt.
…
Trading isn’t for everyone. Most active investors fail to beat the market’s
average return. That’s because they make a lot of mistakes. While that’s an
inevitable part of investing, failing to learn …
Study after study on the market indicates that investors in smaller companies often get a return premium over time.
There’s some common-sense explanation behind that superior return. Bigger, more est…
If you just follow the stock market, you may have missed the biggest financial news in years. That news is the rise of negative interest rates—or bonds that pay investors less in total than what it c…
Hurricane season is in full swing this time of year, and once again the east coast is in the crosshairs.
It’s something that’s happened before, and will happen again. While the unpredictable weather …
Hindsight is 2020. While it’s easy to look back on a great trade that you passed up, investors make a much more common mistake.
They tend to use recent trends and extrapolate them out forever.
The pro…