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
Seeking Alpha and Morningstar are popular sites for investors to research investments, choose stocks and ETFs to buy, and monitor investments in their portfolios. Other services may have better charting tools, cover more securities, or use AI for trading opportunities, but Seeking Alpha and Morningstar always seem to be in the mix when people talk … Read more
The Holy Grail of investing is as obvious as it is elusive: It’s a winning formula for managing investments that returns above-market returns year after year. It’s the kind of pursuit that seems perfectly feasible for new investors fresh out of Finance 101 classes armed with basic formulas and a half-read copy of Security Analysis… … Read more
Robinhood is an excellent stock, ETF, options and crypto trading platform that’s made a name for itself as a straightforward yet surprisingly powerful investing tool. You, like millions of other users, may already be familiar with Robinhood’s free version, but you may not be aware that they offer a paid membership called Robinhood Gold. Here’s … Read more
There are tons and tons of services out there that promise the best research, the best advice, the best proprietary algorithms and advice, and the best investment tools that can do everything but tuck you into bed at night. Some of them are reasonably priced, but a lot of these services seem to think that … Read more
The world of finance and investing is one of high stakes and constant change. Prices rise and fall, companies come and go. Investing used to be the exclusive purview of small groups of pinstriped men with slicked-back hair and BMWs they paid for by selling junk stocks to rubes and charging exorbitant fees to manage … Read more
Now you know a little about mutual funds and how to find the ones that best fit your investing strategy. But all the knowledge in the world won’t change one immutable fact: Researching mutual funds is boring. You could spend hours, days, or weeks doing research and comparing every mutual fund with every other fund, … Read more
So now you know a bit about mutual funds: what they are, how they work, how they can benefit your portfolio, and how they can sometimes charge fees that border on the absurd. But don’t go thinking you’re a mutual fund master just yet. There’s a lot of daylight between knowing the basics of mutual … Read more
You’ve probably heard the term “mutual fund” mentioned on CNBC or thrown around by one of your more financially savvy friends at some point. You know they have something to do with finance, but that’s about it. In this intro to mutual funds, we’ll break it down for you. So What the Heck Are Mutual … Read more