American Stocks
Whether you are a trader or an investor, your goal is to make money. Your secondary goal is to accomplish this with minimal risk. Most people know that they key to making money is buying low and selling high. One of the tricks of experienced stock traders is to not buy stock. Instead, experienced traders […]
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So you want to learn about the stock market…but where do you start? For stock market beginners, the financial industry can be really complicated. Investors, brokers, traders, lenders, borrowers, advisors, companies, banks, stocks, shares, funds, prices…is your head spinning yet? Thankfully, you came to the right place. Through our free Wall Street Survivor courses, we’re going to […]
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Introduction Humans are great at recognizing patterns. But sometimes what we expect to happen, and what actually happens are different. So when investors expect a stock to post great earnings, failing to meet those expectations can causes drastic changes in the stock price. No one likes surprises. Well, except for surprise birthday parties. Those are […]
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Introduction Value investing is a method of picking stocks that was pioneered in the 1930s—when the world was in the midst of the Great Depression. The idea behind it is simple: buy stocks that are cheaper than they should be. Of course that’s easier said than done. Finding stocks that are underpriced takes a lot of research. […]
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There are a lot of financial services on the internet that simply would like to take your money. However, the Motley Fool is not one of them. Why is that, you ask? Because the Motley Fool is LEGIT! There you go, I just saved you 5 minutes. But WAIT! There is much more for you […]
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Do you like “free?” Who does not like free? How about free shares of your favorite stocks? Well, you have come to the right place… …because I am here to tell you how to get FREE stock. And, I promise, there are NO strings attached. But first, let me tell you a little story. Some […]
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The days of checking the newspaper for static numbers provided by the New York Stock Exchange are gone! Today, constant investment information flies around at the speed of light. In fact, we can access our investments right on our mobile devices. The proliferation of investment information, and more to the point, investment culture, has created […]
Continue ReadingWhile they both have green logos, they’re quite different platforms. Robinhood is the young incumbent and TD Ameritrade is a name that has been around for decades. But you can’t simply write off TD Ameritrade as a giant investor stuck in the past. We’ll see that they actually were on the cutting edge of phone […]
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Robinhood was born out of the friendship of Baiju and Vlad. That’s right — two roommates from Stanford went on to build separate investment hedging software solutions in New York City. Actually, that sounds about right! Baiju and Vlad founded Robinhood because they saw an opportunity. What was that opportunity? That opportunity was to gift […]
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