Beginner Investing: Mutual Funds

A mutual fund is simply a pool of money compiled and managed by an investment team. This team is usually centered on the fund manager. The mutual fund is under strict guidelines by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). However, because of the strict trading rules the SEC allows them to be open to the average investor and included in retirement accounts like a 401k because they won’t be overly risky with your...

Beginner Investing

When the economy starts to turn around, you may decide to start learning about investing. The DOW has come off it’s 10+ year low, but hasn’t still hasn’t returned to where it was in 2008. It’s not as hard to trade stocks as you may think, even if you’re a beginner investing for the first time. As a matter of fact it’s quite easy as long as you do you research and your due diligence. Anyone...

Dividend Reinvestment Program

Investing in the stock market is a subject of intense curiosity for a huge percentage of wage earners. The images of the flurry of activity at stock exchanges, and the stories about day traders raking it in, are appealing for those who want to be able to provide a better lifestyle for themselves and their families into the future. However the truth of it is that for the great majority of investors, any gains on the share...

10 Things To Know About Shorting Stocks: Pt.1

… or Shorting Stocks For Dummies (Because they don’t have a book out for it yet) If you’re a beginner investing in the stock market and trading stocks, there’s probably many terms and phrases that you’re not familiar with.  One of the many terms that you’ve heard by now is “shorting stocks“. The idea behind it is that an investor expects a company’s stock to go down in...

Beginner Investing – The Chase

When a beginner investing in the stock market gets started, they can and will make mistakes that can hurt their portfolio. Some mistakes can be worse than others. One of the biggest that beginners make is one that they might not even realize; chasing a stock. Chasing a stock is a common mistake you need to be aware of, or your portfolio will take a beaten. This is when a stock had some good news come out and you missed the...