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Trading stocks sounds simple enough. Open a brokerage account and then enter your orders to buy or sell stocks. Look closer and there are actually several different types of stock market order types. A User Guide to Stock Market Orders is…well, in order.
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Sold stocks or bonds for less than you paid for them? Chances are good that it happened at least once last year (maybe lots) for most investors. A capital loss can provide a good tax deduction but there are important rules to understand.
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During the go-go years of the Internet Bubble, stock splits were very common. As share prices raced every upwards, companies employed splits to keep their share prices lower. Today, that isn’t the case so much. Largely thanks to news about reverse stock split possibilities at Citigroup and AIG.
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With the recent downturn in the stock market, more investors than ever are interested in dividend paying stocks, particularly high yield dividend stocks. One of the key concepts in dividend stock investing is the dividend yield.
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Warren Buffet has made headlines more than a few times in the last couple of years with his big investments in the preferred stock of some companies through his company Berkshire Hathaway. What is the definition of preferred stock and how can you make the same investments as Warren Buffet?
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Laser is a direct-access trading platform. The platform profits charts, level II, time and sales, order entry, watchlists, etc.
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Goldman Sachs’ record breaking quarterly earnings brings full circle the taxpayer bailout that began in earnest last year. What does it mean for investors, the banking sector, and the stock market in general?
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Want to day trade stocks? Before you find good stocks to day trade or implement your day trading system, you must understand the limitations of a SEC rule implemented in 2001.
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The US banking industry seemed on the verge of collapse just a few months ago. Now, some of the big banks that took billions of dollars in TARP funds from the Treasury want to pay them back. Is that a good sign? Are those bank stocks good investments now?
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If you own a stock position that you aren't really interested in selling, but you would like to make some money on in the meantime, selling a covered call might be just the ticket.
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