What are Considered Bull Markets and Bear Markets?
The markets are governed by two overarching macrotrends: bull markets and bear markets. If you properly identify each, you can improve your returns.
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Investing Lessons
How Averaging Up Works
Buying more of your best stocks, also called averaging up or pyramiding, is something most great investors through the years have practiced.
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Stock Market Analysis
Successful stock market analysis must always be mindful of Jesse Livermore's famous quote: "Markets are never wrong; opinions are."
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Market Timing
It has been said that timing is everything. In investing, market timing may not be everything, but it is a big thing. By using market timing strategies, you can identify the best times to buy and sell a stock, thereby maximizing your profits.
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How to Improve Your Investing Habits
Consider this list of 10 ideas to help improve your investing habits. Adopt one of them or all of them—find what works for you. I try to use all of them in my own investing.
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How to Assess Your Portfolio’s Risks
Here's an outline for a position sheet that will give you a great view of your portfolio's risks and rewards and help you choose the best stocks to buy.
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The Three Characteristics of Winning Investors
I believe there's a misconception about what makes truly successful investors, whether they are investing their own money, or other people's.
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10 Growth Stock Investing Tools
These 10 growth stock investing rules explain how to identify growth stocks, when to buy them, when to sell them and what to avoid.
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Rules for Selling Stock
Our final lesson covers selling stock based on momentum. Knowing when to sell a stock is as important as knowing when to buy.
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Practicing Patience in Stock Investing
Most investors lack patience - the toughest thing to do in stock investing is nothing. But for long-term investors, patience pays.
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Holding Great Growth Stocks
It sounds easy to sit and watch your stocks that are going up, but you may find holding great growth stocks harder than you think.
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Fundamental Analysis
Unlike technical analysis, the fundamental analysis of a company’s financial ratios involves making some judgments about future growth potential.
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Investor Sentiment
Investor sentiment is powerful, as we're all subject to the forces of mass psychology. When it changes, the herd has the power to push in either direction.
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Investing Tips
Follow these investing tips to guide you on your way to becoming a successful investor.
Investing in the stock market can be overwhelming or downright scary. The choices are endless, and a step in the wrong direction can result in steep losses, even for investors. These...
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Basic Guide to Value Investing
Value investing is about finding stocks that the market has not correctly priced...in other words, a stock that is worth more than is reflected in the current price. Many people have made fortunes using a value-based approach to investing. Value investing has been to...
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Selling Stocks
If we asked thousands of investors what their main desire was, the most popular answer would undoubtedly be, “to make money.” And who can argue with that? It seems natural that every person investing in stocks wants to be selling stocks at a profit,...
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How Not To Do Market Timing
View the infographic below on how not do market timing.
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What Are Dividend Aristocrats?
Dividend Aristocrats are companies that have raised their dividend rates at least once every year, for a minimum of the previous 25 years.
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What Are Derivatives?
Derivatives are financial instruments that have value based on the expected future price movements of the "underlying asset" to which they are linked.
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An Apple Pay Primer: The Future of Our Money and How We Use It
There's something unsettling about the idea of Apple Pay. The issue probably isn’t electronic payment—we've become used to sending sensitive financial information over the Internet, and the success of PayPal and online banking are evidence of that. But even those companies have a of...
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