Caterpillar: A Buy or Sell?

With the primary purpose of selling products dedicated to mining or digging, Caterpillar (CAT) might not be too favorable to investors with the decrease in price of commodities. However, such a situation may not be that unfavorable to this company.

How To Start Investing On The Stock Exchange

Successful and experienced investors all went through a valuable learning curve before they began risking their own money. One of those vital techniques to stock exchange investing success is discussed here...

Who Else Wants To Be A Billionaire?

What must it be like to be a billionaire?

How To Make Money On The Stock Exchange

The stock exchange is a difficult and competitive environment to make money in. Not everyone will succeed. If you plan to make long term profits, it is important that you get all the basics right. In the following article, Stuart Langridge discusses how you can go about doing some of these things.

Why In The World Would I Want To Trade Stocks?

That's an excellent question. The quick answer is to make money but if we dig a little deeper we will see that the stock trader doesn't just want to make money, he wants to make a lot of money. In fact, the stock trader is looking for larger returns that he would otherwise get by simply investing in a stock or a mutual fund.

Building a Stock Portfolio

How to maintain a good stock portfolio: Beginners in stock trading may note that small amounts may be invested in different stocks instead of putting all eggs in one basket. That is, different types of stocks may be selected and few stocks or shares may be ...

Money Market Mutual Funds

Money market mutual funds are a great alternative, for the less affluent investors, to Treasury bills and certificates of deposits. This is because money market mutual funds require less money to be paid out up front.

Leverage and the Stock Market

Leverage can be defined as the utilization of tools which can increase the rate of return on any investment. By increasing the rate of return, the investor has a higher profit potential.

Do You Want to Invest Like Warren Buffett?

Warren Buffett is the most famous of the buy and hold investors. We look at his recent record to see if his buy and hold approach is still performing well.

How To Handle A Stock Portfolio During A Bear Phase

How to manage a portfolio in a bear market.

Can you buy Shares of Verizon Now?

Approximately one week away from Verizon's (VZ) third quarter results, many investors are speculating whether to purchase shares of this lucrative telecommunications giant. In search for answers by examining earnings from other powerful monsters, there is a mix bag in terms of what to expect for both Verizon and the telecommunication industry in general. However, just specifically in the case of Verizon, I believe the real question should not be placed into whether Verizon accumulates high margins when two years are compared with one another or if this company beats its EPS estimate by a few cents, but how will Verizon perform in the next few years.

Stock Investing – Midterm Elections Make Drug Companies a Sale

Potential Democratic House Victory makes Drug Stocks a sale.

Can You Invest On Your Own

There are many people that spend their lives studying the stock market. After all, stocks are a complicated investment and the market seems to actually be alive as it is constantly changing.

How Trading Works & Common Terms

How a system that can facilitate one billion shares trading in a single day works is a mystery to me, so I thought I’d do a little digging and see if I could come up with the general process on how stock trading works. Here is what I found.