My Business and Financial Freedom Journey
Increasingly, our society is interested in being able to accomplish just about everything on the go. With smart phones pervading our society, it is only natural to want to be able invest from the palm of your hand. If you have a mobile device, you can trade from wherever you are — as long as [...]
Barron’s magazine updated their stock broker survey for 2012. This is the 17th annual ranking of online brokers. Drum roll… this year Interactive Brokers gets the top pick. Last year their top pick was TradeStation, which came in fourth this year.
Using margin can be a powerful tool, if used carefully. Though finding out which stock broker has the lowest margin rate can be time consuming. We’ve collected the most popular brokers, and list the best margin rates at various deposit amounts.
When deciding whether or not a company’s stock is a good addition to your portfolio, you need to analyze various aspects of the company. Looking at the financial position of the company can help you figure out whether or not a stock is likely to make a good buy for your portfolio. One of the [...]
One of my favorite gameshows from the 80′s was “Press Your Luck”. The popular phrase from that show was “big bucks and no whammies”! Unfortunately investors looking for yield in 2012 and 2013 are only going to get whammies. It’s a very difficult time to invest looking for yield, and I actually call it a [...]
Facebook recently announced they are going public. Mark Zuckerberg plans on making approximately $40 Billion from the IPO. While I do think Facebook is a great company and amazing success story, you have to be a patsy to invest in them.
The Internet has made it easy for just about anyone to begin investing. An online broker can provide you with the ability to trade stocks and funds, as well as open some types of retirement accounts and even engage in options trading.
One of the resources that many investors turn to when evaluating funds is Morningstar. Morningstar has built an entire business on rating funds, using the famous five-star system that many of us are familiar with. But, while funds like to tout their ratings and investors rely on them to determine what constitutes a “good” fund, [...]
Contango isn’t a latin dance move; rather, it’s when an investment drifts as compared to the underlying investment. In recent years exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have increased in popularity. These investments are collections of shares in multiple investments, but, unlike mutual funds, ETFs can be traded fairly easily on stock exchanges. ETFs are generally low-cost, and [...]
Active investing can be hard. While it’s difficult to beat the indexed averages over the long haul, it’s not impossible. I believe this is more true as an individual investor, than a professional. Let me explain in more detail. An individual investor doesn’t have to worry about annual performance results, your job isn’t on the [...]
