Maybe its just me, but it seems like TD Ameritrade has really been pushing their Pattern Matcher application. Everywhere I turn their same commercial is playing over and over again. I reviewed the service when it first came out a while back, but have never really looked at it since, so I thought I would [...]
The buy and hold strategy was the initial trading style that made the stock market more enticing to the average person. During the 90′s many banked on stocks like Microsoft and Dell by simply buying and forgetting about them. Who wouldn’t want to partake in such profitable actions? Today though, many people are quickly starting [...]
Market capitalization refers to the total dollar market value of a company’s outstanding shares. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying a company’s shares outstanding by the current market price of one share. Also known has “market cap.” Investors use the market cap to determine how big or small a particular company is. How market cap [...]
Within the stock trading community, mutual funds tend to be looked down upon. Mainly because these funds are commonly associated with high costs and low performances. Now that banks have cut their 5% savings interest rates down to below 2, there are actually some enticing no-load mutual funds available for people looking to make more [...]
As useful as some may be, I have never been fond of trade alert subscriptions. Not because they might not work, but I feel they do more harm than good. In order, for these alerts to work you have to completely immerse yourself into their trading world. What happens if you miss a certain alert [...]