Q: What is your investment process and criteria for investments?
Roy Ward: I am a value investor. I look for high-quality companies that are undervalued, and companies with strong balance sheets and low price to earnings (P/E) ratios. I use the criteria spelled out the...
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Q: What is an option
Jacob Mintz: Before you read any further, make a cup of coffee. For the uninitiated, options can get complicated.
An option is a contract that gives its owner the right (but not the obligation) to purchase or sell an underlying at...
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What are the best practices of growth investors?
Here are some keys to becoming a successful growth stock investor:
1. Work to identify truly great growth companies
2. Cut your losses short
3. Let your winners run
4. Hold stocks of good companies long term
5. Avoid buying on avoid...
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Investment risk is a fact of life. Without risk, there would be no reward. The important thing is to know how to plan for it.
You could say analyzing investment risk has always been a part of my life. Since I was a sophomore college,...
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Q: What is your position on averaging up as a stock advances?
A: If I had a choice with any stock, I'd prefer to average up, but each stock has its own personality. The stock you mentioned has proceeded forward in price only after consolidation periods. said...
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High frequency trading is the implementation of online stock trading strategies noted for extremely quick holdings, to exploit short-term market inefficiencies.
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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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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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Successful stock market analysis must always be mindful of Jesse Livermore's famous quote: "Markets are never wrong; opinions are."
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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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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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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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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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Unlike technical analysis, the fundamental analysis of a company’s financial ratios involves making some judgments about future growth potential.
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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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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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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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View the infographic below on how not do market timing.
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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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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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