Stock Trading - Huge Misconceptions

These stock trading ideas may save you a tremendous amount of time, heartbreak, and money. Learn what the biggest trading misconceptions are and how to avoid them.

How To Create Wealth Using Forex

How to create wealth using forex

Online Share Trading Can Be A Liberating Experience

Regardless of whether you're interested in building your investment portfolio or finding a tax-efficient investment, dealing in shares online allows you to participate in the stock market without ever having to leave your computer.

The Timing Myth

Many investors continuously attempt to play a trick on the markets by trying to buy or sell securities just at the right time. But most of the time they achieve the contrary.

Managing Investment Portfolio Risk - Mutual Funds that Work Like Hedge Funds

We look at mutual funds that are not structured like typical mutual funds, that is, funds that don't invest exclusively in long only positions in stocks and bonds. These can be powerful tools to manage the risk management of our investments.

Some Stocks are Hot - Some IPO's are Not

There are $23 billion worth of stock issues lined up for a fall debut. But thanks to an unstable market, many are wondering how well received their IPO's will be by investors; who have steered clear of new offerings for the last few months.

Borrowing To Invest In Stocks And Shares - A Risky Tactic?

In the heyday of the stockmarket boom of the 1990s, there were regular stories of investors making massive returns in a matter days. This was in the period of the so called “technology bubble” but as with all bubbles, it finally burst with serious consequences for many investors. Can borrowing to invest ever really work?

The Stock Market Timeline

The history of the stock market begins back in the 11th century in Cairo, Egypt. It is believed that during this period of time Jewish and Islamic merchants established a trade association that incorporated most of what we consider modern day credit and payment methods.

W.D. Gann Square of Nine

W.D. Gann was such a character, and one of the few whose name remains part of the Wall Street legend even today. Gann became a public figure after giving an interview in 1909 to the then leading Wall Street publication, Ticker and Investment Digest. As an aside the interviewer was Richard D. Wyckoff who in the following years became himself a famous Wall Street operator and stock market author.

Using Betas to Measure Risk

What does a beta really tell you about a stock?

The Basics of Dividends

What exactly are dividends? You've heard that you can make money by investing in companies that pay dividends, but how does that work?

Finding the Right Broker

There are many options to pick from when choosing a stock broker. It used to be that you simply had to choose from a full service broker or a discount broker.

Know When to Sell Stock

It can be difficult to know when to sell a stock. It can be even more difficult to know when to sell a winning stock.

Keep Your Emotions Out of Your Investments

You should avoid mixing your emotions and your stock decisions. Money is an emotional thing. We often invest so much of ourselves into our investments that we find that we stop making logical decisions. We make decisions that are based on the way we feel. And that isn't a healthy way to manage your investments.

A Financial Analysis of AU Optronics Corporation

With the recent six-month rally, many investors feel that there are not many stocks or equities in the market which hold a strong value label. While such sentiment may be true, there is always going to be places in the market, in each industry, where money can easily be made. Respective to the computer peripherals industry relative to the technology sector, I believe to have, after examining the companies associated with such production, located a specific company, AU Optronics (AUO), which not only holds value relative to its rivals but, because of its strong fundamentals and recent emergence on the market, can be thought of as a growth stock as well.