Is it really possible to beat the S&P’s annual return? Well, yeah. It is. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and you’d have to be a uniquely terrible investor to not beat the market at least once in your life. But to beat it consistently? To keep putting up the big numbers … Read more
We all want to think of ourselves as stock gurus whose every pick is destined for quadruple-digit returns. So we scour SEC filings, stay abreast of every economic indicator, and stare at charts until the lines start to dance, but that still isn’t enough to guarantee the kind of big gains that’ll earn us a … Read more
Composer is an exciting new investment platform that lets average investors trade like Wall Street titans. With hedge funds and high-frequency traders dominating the market, it feels like everyday investors just can’t compete. Composer is changing the game by giving users access to the strategies used by the best of the best! Now, the most … Read more
Trading stocks should be relatively simple. A good company with a solid balance sheet issues shares, investors buy them, and the share prices rise as the company’s prospects improve. Any college freshman coming out of a Finance 101 class could tell you that the stock market is the embodiment of logical capitalism, that investing is … Read more
Investing is hard. It seems so simple in theory—all you have to do is buy low and sell high, right? But there’s a reason those Wall Street bigwigs command the kind of salaries that would make King Midas himself blush. What’s the reason? We just told you like two sentences ago. Investing is hard. There … Read more
Of all the industries that have been most affected by technology, entertainment may be the most visible and the most exciting. Sure, medical nanobots that can cure cancer are cool, and those Boston Dynamics robots can do some cool parkour, but let’s be real: that stuff’s for nerds. The cool stuff, the sci-fi stuff that … Read more
It’s good to have options. That’s true of clothes, ice cream flavors, cars, potential romantic partners, and the contents of your portfolio. And if you want to make money trading call and put options, its good to have a service like the Motley Fool Options service. Whether you are new to options, or an experienced … Read more
Today’s investors have an ever-growing list of sites and services to choose from when deciding where to get their information, run their screeners, chart their picks against technical indicators, and every other investing-related activity. If they actually want to trade stocks on any of the insights they garner from all their legwork, however, they usually … Read more
Sometimes investing seems more like a crapshoot than an art, let alone a science. You can pore over data and manipulate charts for hours, read through every submission to the SEC, stare at the fundamentals and calculate ratios until your head starts throbbing and your eyes start bleeding and still make the wrong play. The … Read more
How do you pick the perfect stocks? What goes into the creation of the ultimate investing strategies? Does anyone know how to deliver the kind of consistent above-market returns that everyone wants but almost no one can provide? Where do investors turn for some of the best, most accurate information and insights out there? Zacks. … Read more
