Archive for the ‘General’ Category

More and more investors are suddenly finding the company they have shares in going private. What does that mean for the stock and the investors? Before answering the question, let's briefly discuss why companies go private. Companies go private for...

September 2, 2011 | In: General

What Is Wash Trading?

I have written this article on one of my other financial websites. Since I have now decided to deprecate the other website, I thought the article can be of good use here. Wash trading is an illegal practice where an investor buys and sells the same...

After my post on AIB delisting itself from the NYSE yesterday, I was wondering what will happen to the investor's shares when a stock gets delisted from either the NYSE or the NASDAQ, so I just did research on this topic and I will now share my results...

1 million dollars is the magic number for everything. I used to dream about this amount when I was a kid. I used to think that 1 million dollars will buy me anything I want. That was then, and this is now. A million dollars nowadays can barely buy you the...

August 24, 2011 | In: General

Is the Swiss Franc Overvalued?

In these crazy, crazy days, where many investors are thinking that the world is finally coming to an end, and where a lot of forex traders are thinking that the USD (and soon the EURO) is worth a bit more than the paper it's being printed on, we are...

Investors shouldn't care less about stocks splits, because they won't affect them at all, with the exception when they want to buy the stocks (if they don't have a flat commission then their fees will be higher as some banks charge a fee/1,000 shares for...

August 20, 2011 | In: General

How Are Stock Dividends Paid?

When I started trading stocks, I didn't care about dividends. I didn't buy stocks because they had dividends, I just bought them because I wanted to sell them at a profit. But, to my (pleasant) surprise, I woke up one day, I logged in to my investor's...

August 17, 2011 | In: General

Can Stocks Make You Rich?

I was having a discussion with a friend the other day, and we were talking about stocks, and whether it can make someone rich or not. He was saying that stocks do not usually make you rich, but owning your own business will. I argued that even if you work...

August 15, 2011 | In: General

How Can Stocks Make You Money?

When I first started this website, I had one aim, I wanted to create articles about stocks that anyone can understand. I wanted to simplify all the concepts of stocks and stock trading to people who have never traded stocks. Stock trading is exciting,...

August 15, 2011 | In: General

Are Stocks Liquid?

More than a decade ago, I took a business class, which was called BAD 201 (yes, it was that bad), and in that class the instructor made a statement that I was not able to forget: "The most liquid thing on earth is money and the most liquid money is the...

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