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Branflakes’s November Investing Contest Strategy

Kevin Smith Strategies for Beginners November 30, 2015April 8, 2016november-challenge, strategies

Contest: Second November Investing Contest Final Rank: 5 Final Portfolio Value: $112,017.03 (+12.01%) Trading Strategy For This Contest I looked for low prices stocks breaking new highs and held on for a couple minutes or over night, then I sold Read More

Why Invest In Stocks?

Mark Brookshire Beginners, Personal Finance November 10, 2015July 3, 2018historical returns, historical stock market returns, why invest in stocks

Why Invest in Stocks? Simply put, when you have money to invest for an extended period of time (like 20 years or more), the stock market historically has provided the greatest return. When most people are able to save money, Read More

ksmith’s October Day Trading Strategy

Kevin Smith Strategies for Beginners October 15, 2015April 8, 2016october-challenge, strategies

Contest: October First Daily Challenge Final Rank: 3 Final Portfolio Value: $102,112.25 (+2.11%) Day Trading Strategy For This Contest For this day-trading contest, my big winners were the triple-leveraged ETFs (Click Here for a list of leveraged ETFs!) and . Read More

hoabidebay’s First October Week Contest Trading Strategy

Kevin Smith Strategies for Beginners October 14, 2015April 8, 2016october-challenge, strategies

Contest: October First Weekly Challenge Final Rank: 1 Final Portfolio Value: $116,943.82 (+16.94%) Trading Strategy For This Contest I select highly volatile and liquid stocks / ETFs to trade, paying attention to how they behave (gap up/down) the 1st 15 Read More

BranFlakes1212’s October Day Trading Strategy

Kevin Smith Strategies for Beginners October 14, 2015April 8, 2016october-challenge, strategies

Contest: October First Daily Contest Final Rank: 6 Final Portfolio Value: $101,341.05 (+1.34%) Day Trading Strategy For This Contest I usually focus on Lower priced stocks because they tend to be more volatile. Tuesday however didn’t have very many stocks Read More

Phil Simard’s Blue Chip Investment Strategy

Phil Simard Strategies for Beginners September 24, 2015April 8, 2016blue chip challenge, strategies

Final Rank: 318 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $992,114,784.48 (-0.79%) Investment Strategy For The Blue Chip Investment Contest Since time was very limited for me in the Blue Chip Investment Challenge. I just tried to get as much profit as Read More

Ross Lo Giudice’s Blue Chip Challenge Investment Strategy

Rosario Lo Giudice Strategies for Beginners September 24, 2015April 8, 2016blue chip challenge, strategies

Final Rank: 338 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $979,922,717.88 (-2.01%) Investment Strategy For This Contest I don’t know if what I did even qualifies as strategy. I purchased about 20 or stocks that were familiar and then I closed my Read More

Kevin Smith’s Blue Chip Challenge Investment Strategy

Kevin Smith Strategies for Beginners September 16, 2015April 8, 2016blue chip challenge, strategies

Final Rank: 331 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $985,785,982.85 (-1.42%) Investment Strategy For This Contest This was a contest where I wanted to go big or crash hard. The news leading up to the contest was dominated by the crash Read More

ETFs showing signs of stress with high trading!

Kevin Smith Current Events, ETFs September 14, 2015September 22, 2015

ETFs have been one of the most popular investment vehicles in the world over the last decade or so, with investors of all types attracted to the low fees, but diverse holdings, falling somewhere between mutual funds and stocks in Read More

Forex

HTMW Team A - G, Glossary, Specific Types Of Investments September 1, 2015October 31, 2018

Live Forex trading includes negotiating of national bills which is performed on a live basis at 24 hour, around-the-clock period. Forex is derived from the words Foreign Exchange which is known as the global market that does business in money trading. Read More

Stop and Limit Orders

Phil Simard Glossary, Order Types, U - Z September 1, 2015October 31, 2018

Definition A Stop (or stop loss) order and limit order are orders that try to execute (meaning become a market order) when a certain price threshold is reached. Limit and stop orders are mirrors of each other; they have the same Read More

Bond

Phil Simard A - G, Bonds, Glossary, The 10 Terms You Need To Know August 24, 2015October 31, 2018bond investment, bond market, bonds, convertible bonds

Promissory notes issued by a corporation or government to its lenders, usually with a specified amount of interest for a specified length of time. This is seen as a loan from the bond holder to the corporation. The value of Bonds traded are greater than the value of stocks traded. Read More

Stock

Kevin Smith Glossary, N - T, The 10 Terms You Need To Know August 21, 2015February 17, 2016

Asset

Phil Simard A - G, Glossary, The 10 Terms You Need To Know August 18, 2015October 31, 2018

Definition: An asset is anything that has monetary value and can be sold. Assets can be anything from a pencil (though it is not worth much) to a skyscraper to things like Stocks and ETFs. There can also be intangible Read More

Asset Allocation

Phil Simard Beginners August 18, 2015October 14, 2015

Definition “Asset Allocation” is how you have divided up your investments across different assets. You can have all your assets in one place, or you can use diversification to spread them around to reduce risk. Details Whenever you pick stocks, Read More

Investment Strategy

Phil Simard Making Your First Investments, Pending August 12, 2015October 1, 2015

An investment strategy is the set of rules and behaviors that you can adopt to reach your financial and investing goals. Choosing an investing strategy can be a daunting task when you are starting to learn about investments and finance. Read More

Team HTMW Blue Chip Challenge Investment Strategy

Final Rank: 336 / 518 Final Portfolio Value: $981,381,149.90 (-1.86%) Investment Strategy For This Contest We picked blue chip stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and tried to balance analyst ratings, Price/Earnings (P/E) ratios, the latest news, and our own Read More

Leveraged ETFs

Kevin Smith ETFs, Glossary, H - M, Popular July 27, 2015October 14, 2015

ETFs are collections of assets into bundles you can invest in all at once, the most popular ones follow indecies (such as SPY following the S&P 500), which is one way for an investor to build a diverse portfolio without holding Read More

ETFs with Best Returns

HTMW Team ETFs July 27, 2015February 18, 2016

ETFs with best rate of return for one and three years Read More