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Stocks made simple; the essentials of stock trading and how stocks are priced, bought and sold.
Explaining High-Frequency Trading: Why Everybody Wants It Gone
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is something that has been talked about on every news channel you’ve probably watched. In most cases, it’s a large debate between somebody who supports the idea (and likely owns a High-Frequency Trading setup) and somebody who is completely against it.
By Giorgi Mikhelidze6 years ago in Trader
Reversing Forward
Reversing to move forward is part of Jerrick's journey from the OTCQB to the NASDAQ Capital Markets. From inception, Jerrick's goal has been to build a billion dollar company. In fact, that goal drove our decision to go public in the first place. While Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc. became a publicly traded company in February 2016, my particular journey to that point can be traced as far back as 1990.
By Jeremy Frommer6 years ago in Trader
Possible Reasons for Stock Splitting
As an investor, you need to understand all there is to know about stock dilution. Stock splitting is one of the most common ways in which the shares of a company are diluted. When the board of directors of a publicly traded company decides to issue new stock to existing shareholders and lower the value of current stocks, it is called a split. Instead of buying research papers, companies often decide to split their stock for one of the following reasons.
By Steven Walker7 years ago in Trader
4 Reasons Day Traders Lose Money
Day trading can be a very lucrative profession. When things go right, day traders can make incredible amounts of money in very short periods of time, far outpacing more casual investors. But day traders can also lose big. In fact, most experts believe that the majority of day traders—perhaps even a supermajority—lose money.
By Claire Peters7 years ago in Trader
How to Become a Hedge Fund Manager
If you take a look at the most successful people on Wall Street, you'll quickly notice that a lot of them are hedge fund managers. They are the ones who create amazing private funds entirely composed of high quality stock market picks, individual commodities, and other investment vehicles—all with the sole purpose of maximizing profits for their elite clientele.
By Iggy Paulsen7 years ago in Trader
Robinhood vs. Stash
When it comes to long term options for accumulating financial profits, nothing is as secure as the stock market. This day and age, it is not common knowledge that even the average Joe can make a shiny penny off investing in stocks, provided they do their research and play their cards right. With the cost of living on a climb, financial security is guaranteed to no one. Therefore, the impact investing your side cash into America’s open market can have on your life should be too obvious to ignore. I like to consider it as a savings account that puts your money to work, with the potential to see profits no bank in the world could match.
By Carlos Guerra7 years ago in Trader
10 Warning Signs That Suggest a Stock Isn't Legit
The stock market is supposed to be a safe place to trade—to a point. Risk will always be a part of investing, but the idea that people want to see is the possibility that risk will be mitigated by statistics and data given to you by companies.
By Cato Conroy7 years ago in Trader
How Many Millennials Invest in the Stock Market?
Millennials seem to be hated by every other demographic out there—often, unfairly so. We're called lazy. We're called whiny. We're called the "Me Generation," and are often told that we lack the life skills we need to survive.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart7 years ago in Trader
Price to Earnings Ratio: Know the Most Common Price Multiple for Picking Stocks
Buying stocks and investing whether short term or long term require an amount of knowledge that must be built over time. The investing toolbox you develop while researching the market is what will separate you from gamblers and a speculators.
By Christopher Sarda7 years ago in Trader
Apple's $1 Trillion Dollar Evaluation
As the news has been constantly blaring recently, Apple now has a $1 trillion dollar market cap. That's $1,000,000,000,000. This doesn't mean that in their bank account $1T rests. In fact, it means that all of Apple's assets (like their huge new 'space ship' campus and all of their stores around the globe) and their income means that if somebody or some company wanted to purchase Apple, they would need to cough up around $1 trillion.
By Alex Jones7 years ago in Trader
