Dow Flirts With New High Six Years On

As the Dow flirts with a new high (and the financial media tests everyone's patience), it's worth remembering how far the average investor has fallen and why.

SPX: Pullback and Consolidation

Short-term S&P 500 forecast.

Online Discount Stock Brokers

The online discount stock brokers can also be divided into three groups. The first one is the classic discount broker which offers extremely cheap order execution through a simple and easy to use software platform. The second type of discount broker offers additional services upon request, for instance phone orders at extra costs or access to research information. The third type of online discount broker targets professional private or institutional traders who need advanced order execution and direct access to different markets and order routing ways.

What Is The Single Most Important Reason A Stock Moves Higher?

Supply and demand causes individual stocks to move higher or lower in the long haul. But daily events are dominated by overall sector and market health. Remember this and it will help you enter trades at a much nicer price!

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.

The New York Stock Exchange - How It Works

The New York Stock Exchange differs from other exchanges. Its so called open outcry system is an auction market where the specialist matches buy and sell orders at the best possible price. It's often said that the auction system is not efficient compared to the fully automated exchanges like the NASDAQ.

Stock Market Basics

The term stock market, as the name connotes, is a place where you can market or trade a company's stock, which the corporation issues through shares in order to raise capital. Of course, capital is the cost that a company incurs in relation to producing its products and services.

Trading Options - Look For Liquidity

If you're interested in trading options, then it's a good idea to always look for options that are highly liquid. What does this mean? Basically, it simply means that there are lots of people all trading the same options as you. That's important, because it means there's plenty of supply and demand. If you need to exit a trade, you want to be reasonably confident there will be someone out there wanting to buy into it - and that's what liquidity gives you.

What Are Corporate and Junk Bonds

Junk bonds are just like a traditional bonds. They are basically a promise from a corporation that states what your initial investment was, the date they will pay you back, and the interest rate which will be applied on the borrowed money.

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.

Did Anyone Remember to Call Grandma

Back in early summer 2006, market looked very sloppy. Oil and interest rates going up, and stocks going down. All seemed bleak, but then companies with a June 30th second quarter end began to report good earnings, and the market began to rebound.

Beginner Day Online Trading

Day trading is the practice of buying or selling throughout the day, but completely out of the market by the close of the trading day.

Live Reported From the Stock Exchange: GOOG (+23%) - YHOO (-30%)

Where are both stocks (and companies) now in this highly competitive game?