This MSN article discusses whether President Obama is letting down investors and it goes over several reasons why he might be. His first terms of office in 2009 saw a very good year for stocks but now the market seems to be in a trading range and getting shakier by the moment. Obama has done [...]
One of the first things you have to do when you open up a new stock trading account is to fund the account. That simply means you have to put money into it. Usually this is done by a wire transfer from another account at a bank or by giving them a paper check. Once the money is [...]
If you are learning how to buy stocks for beginners, one of the things you are probably trying to figure out is whether you should be making your trades anytime near earnings. When you buy or sell a stock, you can make the trade during normal times (in between earnings announcements) or you can choose [...]
One of the most difficult things for a beginner to understand is what make stocks (and the stock market as a whole) go up and down. Why does it go way up one day then sometimes turn around the very next day to go right back down? Are things really that different from one day [...]
