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Most investors, before investing long term in a company, are interested to know what is the dividend that the company offers for its shareholders. The easiest way to know the dividend of a stock (in the US market) is to visit Yahoo's finance page for that...

While writing an article yesterday on how much money you can make with stocks, I was trying to calculate how much money a day trader makes per year provided he makes 0.75% of his investment every trading day, so I needed to know how many trading days...

Everytime one of my friends knows that I trade stocks, he immediately asks me this question: "How much money can you make off stocks?" My immediate answer is that you can make unlimited amount with stocks. In fact, stocks can make you rich in a very short...

I was buying an item the other day and the merchant gave my credit card to his assistant to make a copy of it. I immediately refused, not only that, I stated that he is not allowed to make a copy of credit card because it is in Visa's terms that they're...

Following this week's drop of around 12%, which drove down AMZN $30 from around $236 to $206, one has to wonder: how much is Amazon worth? And is Amazon really worth $94 billion at the current price? Or is worth less? To answer this question, let's...

October 26, 2011 | In: Opinion, Technology

Will Netflix Go Bankrupt?

NFLX is stuck in a downward spiral since July of this year. Let's look at NFLX chart since then (courtesy of Google finance): Figure 1: NFLX chart for the last 6 months. NFLX had a high of $304 back in July of 2011. Today NFLX is trading at a bit less...

October 24, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is CNN Stock Ticker?

CNN is one of the largest news channel in the US, and most likely the largest in the world. Since CNN is that important, it must have needed investors' money in order to expand, and thus it must be a public company, and thus it must have a stock ticker....

The year 2011 is almost over, and those who bought stocks (especially bank stocks) at the beginning of the year lost a lot of their investments. Stocks, with the exception of few (such as AAPL), were not a good investment for 2011, for many reasons that...

October 18, 2011 | In: General

Where Can You Buy Stocks?

One of the questions that I always get from new investors is: "OK, now I know how the stock market works, how stock prices are set, and I want to join the game! But, I still don't know where I can buy stocks!" The answer to this question is easy: "Just...

I have discussed RIM many times before, stating that the company is doomed, long before everyone else thought that it was. However, I have never discussed, in details, why the RIM is losing market share. Here's why I think RIM is consistently losing...