If you want to buy penny stocks, you certainly are not alone. These stocks have made many people a lot of money, but the vast majority of traders never become profitable with them. If you want to invest in them, then you have two options-day trading or long term investing. The former is probably going [...]

Research is showing that most people don’t beat the market when it comes to stock market trading.  In fact, it’s not just the individual investors on Main Street that aren’t beating the market.  The professional money managers of large investment firms and pensions funds don’t beat the market either.  So is there hope for people [...]

Do you watch the stock market everyday? Are you waiting for a good time to get in the market but are unsure when that is? People who buy stocks are sometimes paralyzed with indecision and never end up doing anything. If your investing goals are long term, it doesn’t really matter when you get in [...]

There are many different ways to make money in the stock market. There are the technical traders who use charts and formulas to predict future price movements. A hard-core technician doesn’t concern themselves with what a company does or even if it is earning a profit. If these investors see a pattern on their charts [...]

The investing industry can be considered as the fabled tortoise that beat the hare in the race, it means that the investor who stays in for the longest term is more likely to achieve his or her goals rather than the investor who only chases “hot tips” for a quick profits in the stock market. [...]

The best thing a first time stock trader can do to improve the chances of making money in the stock market is to dive into the research.  I’m not talking about grinding away at the fundamental analysis about companies that you may be interested in buying (although that is hardly a meaningless pursuit).  I’m talking [...]