Investing

What do you do with your losing stocks? Unfortunately, many of us probably hold onto them, afraid to admit our failure with the hope that one-day they’ll come back. In this article, I’ll try to explain why it might make sense to sell them.

The ROE can be useful when deciding which company in an industry is the better investment. Let me explain.

People seem to think that since they hear that so few people are successful in trading, that there must be a complicated process to complete in order to make money. The truth is that the simpler we make trading, the more profitable it seems to be...so this week I decided to discuss a simple technique that is often overlooked when traders are reading charts, specifically candle charts.

Imagine that five years ago you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500. How much would it be worth today, with dividends reinvested but adjusted for inflation?

There are many different investment vehicles one can use to invest in gold but the key aspects that we as investors and traders must always look for are the vehicles' relationship and correlation with gold prices, and how much that correlation is or isn’t leveraged to the gold price.

Today's infographic dives deep into dividends - what they are, how they work, their interesting history, as well as what they can offer investors over time.

The majority of individual investors base their investing decisions on two emotions that rule the market - fear and greed - and, as a result, end up losing money more often...[than making] money. That being said, if you can keep your emotions in check you can take advantage of other investors emotions - irrational exuberance - and make yourself some easy money. It's a surefire way to make loads of money investing in the stock market.

History tells us we should expect higher stock prices in the next quarter, mid-year, and by the end of 2018. The trillion-dollar question is, “When will this all end?”

Knowing how to properly value a stock is probably the most important skill for a value investor to develop and over the last fifty years one of the most popular methods to discover the fair price of a stock has been the Benjamin Graham formula.

You might be thinking what behavioral finance is and how you can improve your decision making process and use behavioral finance to your advantage. Well in this post I am going to show you how.