3 Simple Ways to Keep Track of Your Stock Investments
Not everyone is a financial whiz and understands the ins and outs of investing in the stock market or mutual funds. That doesn’t mean that you should never get into the investment arena. Even if you don’t understand the stock page of the newspaper, there are ways that can make keeping abreast of how your [...]
Living Off Your Investments
When you’re in the middle of a project, it’s sometimes hard to imagine the final result. But, that stash of cash in your 401(k) will someday be your income, and you’ll be taking money out of it rather than putting money in it.
The strategies for investing while you’re taking withdrawals are significantly [...]
ETF Investing
Exchange traded funds (or ETFs) are open-ended investment companies that can be traded at any time throughout the course of the day. Typically, ETFs try to replicate a stock market index such as the S&P 500, a market sector such as energy or technology, or a commodity such as gold or petroleum. In short, [...]
Free Online Stock Broker Zecco
Zecco is a online stock broker offering free online stock trades. That’s right, free. As Zecco says, the price war is over and you won. You can make up to 10 free stock trades every month as long as you maintain a $2,500 minimum account balance, and after that you only pay just [...]
Smart Money Remains Fully Invested
The market hasn’t been performing too hot lately. Should you care? As I read posts of personal finance bloggers liquidating accounts and encouraging readers to get out and wait until they feel confident in the market again, I see people falling into the single biggest trap in investing: trying to time the market.
For [...]
529 College Savings Plans For the Win
While we don’t have any children of our own yet, we do have several young nieces and nephews. We all live close enough together that every time one of them has a birthday, the whole family gets together for the birthday party.
For us, it usually means rushing out at the last minute to find [...]
The Commodity Futures Market
As you learn the basics of investing, you’ll find some segments of the market harder than others. Those of you that have looked into Commodity Futures & Options know what I’m talking about. This is arguably one of the most complex and risky parts of the investment world. Still, more than 1 billion futures and [...]
Tulip Mania and the Stock Market
Is a tulip bulb worth $76,000? It is if people are willing to pay that much for it and that’s exactly what happened in Holland in the 1630’s. If it sounds unbelievable, you may have never heard of Tulip Mania. The story began in 1559 when Conrad Guestner brought the first tulip bulbs [...]
The Dow Theory
The Dow theory has been around for almost 100 years, yet even in today’s volatile and technology-driven markets, the basic components of Dow theory still remain valid. Developed by Charles Dow, refined by William Hamilton and articulated by Robert Rhea, the Dow theory addresses not only technical analysis and price action, but also [...]
The Effects of a Stock Split
The company I work for and invest a small amount in through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan has recently announced that they would be executing a 2-for-1 stock split. A stock split is simply the dividing of a company’s existing stock into multiple shares. A stock split is usually a good indicator that a [...]
