The easiest answer to this topic is that Bonds are a form of debt. You are loaning money and expect that money to be returned with a little extra for your trouble. When you are purchasing a stock you are taking an equity stake in a company, that is, you become an owner in that [...]
What is a stock? The purpose of this upcoming series of articles is to enlighten the novice who is interested in the stock and financial markets but has little knowledge of them. It is for this reason that I am going to offer the basics, beginning with a bit of common terminology and then in [...]
The easiest place to begin to understand how options work and why the may be a good investment tool is to go right for the easiest to understand, the long call. I remember that my first bit of insight into trading options was through a great friend, Marc Friedfertig, author of “The Electronic Day Trader”. [...]
Trading lessons 2 Identify the breakout possibilities I really want to get into the subject of “Hot Stocks” and have asked some of my close friends who are considered heavy hitters in the day trading arena to lend an occasional post, however it is a tricky subject so I thought some general beginners information on [...]
Day Trading the Large caps versus the small caps When trading larger market cap stocks like Microsoft and Apple, you need to employ strategies and trading rules that may be different from how you may play some of the smaller cap stocks. When playing smaller cap you need to look for those that are displaying [...]
