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 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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Fundamental investing is an offshoot of value investing, so the stock chart is going to look very much like that of the value investor. But there are differences. The fundamental investor must have a significant amount of time to spend on his or her portfolio in the stock market today because it takes a lot [...]

All the traders come together, and in one way or the other stock prices are revealed and it makes the stock market what it is. Supply and demand are met and it makes the quantity asked as near as feasible to the quantity supplied. After all it’s been recounted by the authoritative stock traders that [...]

Creating an uniformly balanced portfolio by dividing assets among such various classes as stocks both foreign and domestic, bonds, funds, property, money equivalents, and non-public equity can help guard against the stock market fluctuations. Determining how much to invest in each asset group is dependent on the financier’s individual situation and future wants. Thru the [...]

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In this ever-fluctuating finance world, it is terribly tough to know the simplest way to go about making your cash work for you. For generations the stock market has given purchasers the chance to invest their cash into firms that they felt would perform solidly, therefore inflating the worth of their stock. And round and [...]