Category Archives: Tools

This is a collection of personal finance calculators, software recommendations, and more tools for investors to learn about personal finance, research, and investing

The Complete Motley Fool Review: How to Invest Better and Smarter

HTMW Team

*** MOTLEY FOOL RESULTS UPDATED AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2020 *** Investing in the stock market is an essential part of growing your wealth, preparing for retirement, and ensuring your financial success. While building a stock portfolio should absolutely be part of everyone’s savings and long-term financial planning strategy, most people struggle with it or Read More…

Categories: Investing, Newsletters

How to prevent frozen bank accounts

Alex Mitchell

People get their bank accounts frozen for a variety of reasons. The most common misconception is that bank accounts are frozen only when a debt collector is legally empowered to levy a person’s finances or when that person has reached their credit limit. Yet the most likely scenario is that your account was frozen for Read More…

Categories: Guest Posts, Websites

ABCmouse Review: Is it worth the money? (updated)

Greg Brown

In this ABCmouse review, I’ll try to answer all your questions about the product. I’ll also show you some screenshots and give you my honest opinion, but if I forget something, please let me know. I’ve searched the entire internet to find the best tools to use with my daughter. She is only 2 years Read More…

Categories: Tools

Things You Should Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer

Cynthia Madison

Although the paycheck is the only thing people think about before accepting a job, there is more than this involved in the equation. Of course, salary matters, but other parts of the compensation package or even training opportunities matter enormously. Besides, you want to make sure that the employer is a reliable one. You want Read More…

Categories: Guest Posts, Other Guides, Websites

Motley Fool Stock Advisor Review

Mark Brookshire

Does the Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor newsletter provide good stock recommendations and is it worth the price? At HowTheMarketWorks, one of the services we provide our users is that we subscribe to dozens of stock advisory services and we buy all of the recommended stocks in a virtual account. In this article I will review Read More…

Categories: Newsletters, Popular

Using Spreadsheets – Graphing

Kevin Smith

Graphing is one of the most important features of spreadsheets. When you need to present your findings, whether as a written report or a presentation, summarizing your data in graphs is the best way to quickly communicate large amounts of data. This guide will walk through taking your raw portfolio data, making some simple calculations, Read More…

Categories: Software

Using Spreadsheets – Calculating Profit or Loss From Trades

Kevin Smith

The most important reason you would want to use excel to track your stock portfolio is trying to calculate your profit and loss from each trade. To do this, open the spreadsheet with your transaction history. It should look something like this: Tip: If you have not bought and then sold a stock, you can’t calculate how Read More…

Categories: Software

Using Spreadsheets – Calculating Your Daily Returns

Kevin Smith

If you’ve been trading for a long period of time you might have been curious to know what your daily returns were. Excel and Google Sheets can help you efficiently calculate this in a simple way. Suppose we started trading on August 29th, 2017. It is now September 7th and we would like to know Read More…

Categories: Popular, Software

Using Spreadsheets – Importing and Formatting Data

Kevin Smith

The first step in using any spreadsheet is getting some data! This tutorial will show you different ways to import some of your portfolio data into a spreadsheet and how to format it to make it easier to read. Getting Data The first step to using any spreadsheet is getting some data – once Read More…

Categories: Popular, Software

The Best Stock Newsletter
How To Invest in the Stock Market

Levi Rasmussen

One of the benefits of using HowTheMarketWorks is that we do a lot of your homework for you so we can help you make more money! You can also learn how to invest in the stock market by following the same strategy we use with HTMW’s paper trading. We subscribe to a few dozen stock Read More…

Categories: Newsletters

3 popular strategies of trading on Markets Cube

Leo

The development of the Forex market has now reached a truly global scale. Thousands of people around the world are making deals, trying to increase their capital. With the growth in demand and the growing number of customers, trading strategies have emerged that help to more productively trade. To date trading in the forex market, Read More…

Categories: Guest Posts, Websites

Trying to Find the Right Forex Broker? Consider These 5 Tips

Emily John

There are so many different ways for a person to build wealth over time. Finding the right investments is a key part of achieving your financial goals. In order to find the right investments, you will have to spend a lot of time researching your options. If you are looking for an investment that can Read More…

Categories: Advanced Trading Strategies, Guest Posts, Websites

10 Creative Ways to Raise Funding for Your Business

Luis Aureliano

Nobody ever said that being an entrepreneur would be an easy task – it is probably tougher to be an entrepreneur (at the start) than to work a 9-to-5 job. One of the things that make it hard to be an entrepreneur is the money matters that arise over the course of starting and running Read More…

Categories: Business, Guest Posts, Other Guides

What Do Traders Look for with Gold?

Luis Aureliano

Gold is currently trading at $1,215.85 per ounce, up 0.96% or $11.55. The precious metal has gained 6.40% over the past 30-day period, up $72.40. For the year to date, gold is up 4.7%, and it has an average return of 10.7% since 2002. Its best year on record in that time is 2007 when Read More…

Categories: Advanced, Charts and Patterns, Guest Posts, Other Guides, Technical Analysis

The Travel Money Market in Perspective

Maria Tonic

People buy foreign currency for many reasons. You may wish to purchase Forex as a hedge against depreciation, or because you are traveling abroad. Many people buy foreign currency to send to someone else who is living abroad. Whatever your reasons for buying or selling Forex, you will always want to pay the lowest possible Read More…

Categories: Advanced, Current Events, Guest Posts, Other Guides

Net Worth Calculator

Kevin Smith

Net Worth Calculator! Knowing your net worth is the first step towards growing it! This tool will help you organize your assets in one place, and even help project how they will grow in the future. If you have used our Home Budget Calculator to help see where you can improve your savings, the next Read More…

Categories: Personal Finance Calculators

Finding Stocks In Specific Sectors

Kevin Smith

If you’ve started buying a few stocks, you will probably be interested in diversifying your portfolio between more than one sector. This sounds easy, but it can be very challenging finding stocks from a wide range of sources that fit what you’re looking for. Thankfully, our Quotes Tool has all the information you need to Read More…

Categories: Advanced, Advanced Trading Strategies, Beginners, Charts, Stocks, Using HTMW

Advanced Chart

Phil Simard

Using the trading view Advanced Chart software will certainly give you an edge. Don’t forget to trade after doing your analysis! Using the Trading View Advanced Chart The chart is extremely intuitive but here is a quick tutorial on using it. (if you do not see the left hand panel click on the little arrow Read More…

Categories: Charts, Tools

Home Budget Calculator

HTMW Team

Home Budget Calculator! The most difficult thing people think of with personal finance is building your monthly budget, and sticking to it. There are tons of different expenses and payments to consider, so we put all the big ones in one place! This tool will also help you see exactly how much you can set Read More…

Categories: Personal Finance Calculators

Car Loan Calculator

HTMW Team

Car Loan Calculator! The first BIG purchase many people make is when they buy their first car. This calculator will help show the impact of many of the biggest factors people need to consider when taking out their first loan for a big purchase. If you have used our Credit Card Payment Calculator to see Read More…

Categories: Personal Finance Calculators