Beginner Investing: Diversify Your Portfolio

When you’re a beginner investing in the stock market, one of the best investment tips you can follow is to diversify your portfolio. When the average person thinks of the stock market, they typically think of stocks, but there is so much more to know if you want to be successful. 1. Stock or Equities Stocks and equities are basically the same thing. They’re securities that represent owning a piece of a company....

Beginner Investing: Researching Stocks

When I first started as a beginner investing in the stock market, I was looking to hit it big and make a big score. Everything that I read pointed me toward trading penny stocks and how they can go up in value by 25%-50% in just one day. I worked with someone that had the trade of a lifetime. He was telling me that there was this company that was in the commodity sector (which in regards to penny stocks, means nothing) and...