Investors cannot do much about the volatility of the markets with a short time horizon because the risk of potential loss is high with stocks and other real investment assets. Stocks are more volatile in price than bonds. With a holding period of 74 years, annual returns averaged 12.4 percent for large-cap stocks, 5.5 percent [...]
Avoid The Market Risks Today
Stock market risk refers to the movement of security prices, which tend to move together in reaction to external events, unrelated to a company’s fundamentals. Market risk is the risk that market pressures will cause an investment to fluctuate in value. Although you can diversify investment to virtually eliminate business, financial, and operating risk, you [...]
Financial Risks To Avoid While Investing
Fiscal risk is the incapacity of a company to meet its financing liabilities, and the size of a company’s money risk measured by the quantity of debt the company holds in relation to its equity. A company with high percentage of debt relative to its assets has an increased chance that at some particular point [...]
Democrats vs Republicans: Elections 2010
During this election year we have seen how the democrats and republicans has been fighting on who has done the worst job in congress. The conversation has been how we can blame the other party rather that I offer this solution. President Obama said that America must decided in whether or not we want to [...]
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) Trading
An exchange-traded fund (ETFs) is a fixed basket of stocks that trades on the stock market just like a stock. A global ETF can represent stocks of a specific country or region or a specific industry in a company or a region. The value of an ETF is determined on a continuous basis by calculating [...]
Writing Covered Option Calls Investment Tips
Writing covered option calls is a popular strategy for those who want to supplement their income. The strategy is simply to sell (write) call options on stocks that you own. If you think one of your stocks isn’t likely to change appreciably over the next 3 months, you can sell a call option for, say, [...]
Stock Options: Hedge Your Trading To Increase Your Profits
Options can be used as a speculative investment in the stock market, a protective hedge, or an additional income source. In this article we are talking about equity options, not options on futures or commodities. Options derive their value from the value of the underlying security, but they also have value in and of [...]
Is Your Investing Style Not Working
Growth, value, and momentum investing styles perform differently in different stock market and consequently rotate into and out of favor with investors. Momentum investing was the hot style during the dot-com boom in 1998 and 1999. After the bubble burst in the spring of 2000, valuations tumble for stocks across the board, and as a [...]
How To Be An Active Trader and Chart Skills
Active trading – particularly day trading – is highly intense and action-oriented. Day traders are glue to their computer screen for most of the market day, ready to pull the trigger when their system says to enter or exit. In the stock market chart for a classis day trader, it has among the highest score [...]
Income Investing: Where is the money?
Equity income investors buy stocks that pay dividends; fixed income investors buy bonds, CDs, mortgages, and other fixed-income vehicles. The point is, both types of investors are seeking income, but since this is an article about investing is stocks, we will focus only on the equity income investor here. The greatest advantage of income investing, [...]
