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Many who owe credit card companies balance on their bill do not even know how the interest on that balance is calculated - they pay it without asking a question, and they are always skeptical about the amount of interest charged (in other words, they...

February 6, 2012 | In: Tutorial

How Can I Buy Apple Stock?

Now that Apple is the most valuable company in the world, there are many people who are not investors that want to invest in Apple. I know that for a fact because I receive many questions nowadays on this website with the same title over and over again:...

As a stock trader, you must have read the term "Book Value" at one point or the other. The book value of a stock is simply how much the stock of a company is worth purely from an accounting perspective, and thus, when a stock is trading below its book...

When I first started trading, I didn't know what shorting was. Shortly afterward, when I was buying stocks, I saw, under the list of choices (I wanted to use the word options but I don't want to confuse readers) that I have, something called "Sell Short"....