- What Is After-Hours Trading? How Do You Do It?
After-hours trading happens outside the standard hours during which a stock exchange (such as the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange) is open. This trading can fall under post-market trading, which happens between 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., or pre-market… read more…
- Here’s a Trick to Take Control of Your Taxes in an Unpredictable Real Estate Market
Most real estate investors are familiar with traditional tax-deferred exchanges. They require you to sell your current business property before you can purchase another. However, there’s an alternative route that allows you to take some extra control in the unpredictable… read more…
- Understanding How REITs Are Taxed
Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, can be a great addition to a well-diversified portfolio. These investments offer a solution to those looking to benefit from real estate assets. However, they also come with their own unique tax implications. Here’s a… read more…
- What Is Survivorship Bias? And How It Can Be Used to Trick You
Survivorship bias isn’t a term you likely hear often, but you know exactly what it is. Ever listened to a sales pitch that opened with the most optimistic information, yet neglected to include the less-than-flattering details? This is a type… read more…
- Wealthfront vs. Vanguard
Wealthfront and Vanguard specialize in two different types of online trading platforms. Vanguard offers a full-service trading platform, it specializes in mutual funds. Wealthfront, on the other hand, is what is known as a robo-advisor service. This means that you don’t… read more…
- Understanding Overweight Stock Ratings
A stock that is expected to outperform other stocks in its market sector gets an Overweight rating. Financial analysts who are employed by investment firms research stocks and provide their opinions to investors about their possible future performance. Their opinion takes… read more…
- Money for Nothing: How to Build a ‘Couch Potato’ Portfolio
Want to grow wealth but don’t want to have to spend hours poring over your investment portfolio or investment decisions? If so, a lazy portfolio may be right for you. Lazy portfolios are designed to generate returns without requiring constant… read more…
- Treasury Bills vs. Bonds: What’s the Difference?
Fixed-income securities play an important role within individual investment portfolios and the economy at large. But like other securities, fixed-income instruments come in a myriad of variations, from short-term Treasury bills that only pay interest when the bill matures, to… read more…
- What Are Unrealized Gains? Investment Guide
Like most investors, you’ve probably watched your investment account balance fluctuate depending on market conditions, company or fund performance and other factors. Of course, you’d likely prefer to see your account balance grow rather than shrink. It’s exciting to see… read more…
- Vanguard vs. TD Ameritrade
As you begin investing, you’ll likely hear about two popular online investing companies: Vanguard and TD Ameritrade. These are two of the largest brokerage firms in the U.S. While the companies have a few similarities, they each cater to vastly… read more…
- Beginner’s Guide to Nickel Investing
Investing in nickel is a bet on the prospects of the industrial and manufacturing sectors, both of which use lots of this base metal. Nickel investing, and investing in other base metals like zinc, iron, aluminum and uranium, is different from investing… read more…
- How to Invest Your Inheritance
When a loved one passes away, you may receive an inheritance. This money is a token of the person’s appreciation for you and often represents a lifetime of savings. When you’ve received a large sum of money, there is a… read more…
- Preferred Stock vs. Common Stock: What’s the Difference?
Publicly traded companies can offer shares of preferred stock or common stock to investors to raise capital. Both can pay dividends, though there can be differences in how much is paid out and when those payouts occur. Between the two,… read more…
- How to Invest in SPACs
Special purpose acquisition companies or SPACs for short are formed to raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO). The capital raised from investors is then used to acquire a private company. Also called shell companies or blank check companies,… read more…
- When Is Quadruple Witching Day? Should You Invest?
The phrase quadruple witching brings to mind stories that begin, “It was a dark and stormy night…” or folkloric visions of witches flying chaotically on broomsticks across the brightness of a moon. In the context of investing, quadruple witching also… read more…
- How to Create Multiple Streams of Income
eveNearly half of all Americans depend on secondary work to get by. This is largely hidden from BLS and Census bureau data. According to the Census, 7.8% of Americans work more than one job. Having multiple streams of income is rapidly becoming… read more…
- What Is a Volatility Smile?
The volatility smile is a visual representation of the implied volatilities of options contracts that expire on the same date. The appearance of a volatility smile indicates that options traders are willing to pay more for options that are in… read more…
- Can You Trade Options in a Roth IRA?
The owner of a Roth IRA can trade options using funds in the account, but restrictions and risks make the strategy unlikely to meet the objectives of most investors. A Roth IRA is a tax-advantaged account designed for long-term retirement… read more…
- How to Get Rich Through Investing
If you want to be rich, many financial experts will suggest you invest. You can become rich in other ways than investing, of course, such as inventing something useful or starting a business. But the genius behind investing is that… read more…
- What Is Capital Gains Yield
Investing is frequently filled with complicated jargon that can make it difficult to understand how your investments are actually performing. The Capital Gains Yield is one of these terms. While most brokerages calculate this number for you on all of… read more…
- How to Invest in Wheat
Wheat is one of the world’s most widely grown crops, which can make it an attractive investment. Investors use wheat to diversify, as a hedge against inflation and in search of profit as the cultivation and use of wheat increases… read more…
- How Much Do Stockbrokers Make?
Stockbrokers get paid more than most workers. Estimates of the median combined salaries and commissions received by people who sell stocks and other securities to investors range from $62,910 to $149,664 a year. The estimates vary depending on the source… read more…
- How to Invest $200k?
If you have $200,000 to invest, there are many ways to make your money grow. Let’s take a look at how you can invest in the stock market, real estate and other common investments, while keeping a few practical tips… read more…
- What Is the 200-Day Moving Average?
The simple moving average, or SMA, is one of the most common pieces of technical data that investors rely on. In the case of the 200-day SMA, it shows you the stock’s average price over the past 200 trading days.… read more…
- Investing in Municipal Bonds During Rate Hikes
Municipal bonds, or “munis,” are popular investments for a few reasons. Most notably, as a government bond, they can be the closest thing to a safe asset that the market offers. And, investors typically pay no federal taxes on the… read more…