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When reading about investing, you often hear that it’s important to do your research. That educated investing is the key to successful investing. That you should never invest a dime until you understand just what it is you’re investing in….
Taxable brokerage accounts don’t offer all of the tax incentives retirement accounts do, but they’re far more flexible. If you expect to need any significant chunk of money before you retire, that makes them an essential part of your savings…
When building a balanced investing portfolio, you’ll want to include bonds in your asset allocation. These assets provide safety and stability, offering relatively slow growth and reliable returns. As you begin to research which bonds to buy, you’ll realize there…
Investing is an important part of saving for the future. One of the hardest parts of investing is building a portfolio of stocks and bonds that you’re happy with. Mutual funds are a way to easily invest in pre-built portfolios….
Futures contracts allow market participants to place bets on future pricing and the direction of change in future pricing of commodities, financial products, and certain other assets and instruments. Because futures markets can be volatile, illiquid, and prone to speculation,…
Intermediate and sophisticated investors and traders use stock options to manage and mitigate market risk. Although not essential to ensure adequate portfolio diversification, options have tremendous strategic value and can dramatically increase returns when the bets they enable pay off….
If you’re a novice investor with some extra money that you’d like to put to work in the market, you have dozens of low-cost robo-advisors and beginner-friendly online brokerages to choose from. TradeStation is not one of those. It’s a…
Recessions are scary. With the higher risk of job losses and business collapses, stock market crashes and home value drops, it can feel like no part of your life is safe. But recessions also represent an opportunity for those who…
The almighty dollar stresses us more than work, family, and even our health, according to the American Psychological Association. Anxiety over personal finances impacts health and longevity and contributes to poor decision-making. Why do so many of us succumb to…
A fascinating joint study by the German central bank and several U.S. and German universities reviewed how different asset classes performed over 145 years, from 1870 to 2015. The researchers compared rental real estate, stocks, bonds, and short-term bills across 16…
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