When should you Rebalance?

Let's assume that -- because of your personal and financial circumstances -- you decide to allocate your investment assets as follows: you want fifty percent of...[ read more ]

5 Common Investment Mistakes

When investment mistakes happen, money is lost. Mistakes can occur for a variety of reasons, but they can generally be attributed to the clouding of the investo...[ read more ]

The Rationale of Buying-and-Holding

The buy-and-hold technique is a passive investment strategy based on the premise that over long periods of time, the returns from common stocks will exceed the ...[ read more ]

Types of Brokerage Accounts

Opening an account at a brokerage firm is as easy as opening a bank account. The investor is required to provide basic personal information, such as occupation ...[ read more ]

More Stock Investment Strategies

There are a tremendous number of stock-buying strategies. Many of them are based on the basic fundamental- and technical analysis methods expounded upon in the ...[ read more ]

How Events affect Perception and Investor Confiden

There are times when a company's earnings history and projections are the only solid data that you have on which to base a decision about its stock . Although t...[ read more ]

How a Securities Trade is implemented

Securities transactions take place either on an exchange or in the over-the-counter (OTC) market. While the purpose of both is to match securities buyers and se...[ read more ]

Explaining the P/E Ratio

One of the most common measures that investors use to evaluate a stock is its price-to-earnings (or P/E ) ratio . The P/E ratio is calculated by dividing a stoc...[ read more ]

Glossary of Investment Terms

Like any highly specialized field of endeavor, investing has its own peculiar language, terms, and jargon. Listed below are twenty-five of the most common inves...[ read more ]

Long, Short, Flat: What Your Position Means

The terms long, short, and flat identify an investor's market position with respect to a given stockbroker. To be long means to have a positive market position;...[ read more ]

Let the IRS Help Your Investment Returns

Income taxes can take a serious bite out of your savings and investment plan. Fortunately, the federal government is well aware of this, and gives taxpayers a b...[ read more ]

More Key Market Indexes

Over the years, the number of market indexes has grown substantially. For instance, in addition to its industrial average , Dow Jones Company itself now publish...[ read more ]

Should you use Life Insurance as an Investment?

Life insurance is often used as an investment for retirement planning. Basic life insurance can be divided into two general categories, term insurance and whole...[ read more ]

Constant Dollar Investment Strategy

Constant dollar investment is a strategy that attempts to keep a fixed dollar amount allocated to each of the various types of securities contained in a portfol...[ read more ]