Stock Market Today

Before the advent of the industrial revolution, trading mainly took place with agricultural commodities such as corn, maize, oats, wheat, livestock, hogs and pigs. In 1848, the world’s oldest futures exchange was formed and it was named the Chicago Board Of Trade [CBOT]. Thereafter, many such exchanges were formed all around the world. The trading [...]

Every year we make a “wish list” of items we’d like for Christmas. Depending on how good we’ve been, we may ask for all sorts of things like jewelry, TVs, clothes, and even cars. You may know what others are asking for too, but have you ever wondered what an industry like Wall Street puts [...]

What is an Index and Why Should I Care Most investors have heard the term “index”, but what does it really mean? An index is an assortment of investments designed to perform in a way desired by the entity that created the particular idea. For example, when people think of the stock market, they are [...]

Investing is a process  of making decisions  today to achieve results that will not be known until tomorrow. Because nobody can control  everything that is going to happen tomorrow, nobody knows what tomorrow will bring. As such, most experts  agree that market timing is incredibly difficult if not downright impossible. They also warn against it [...]

The buy-and-hold  is said to be the most commonly used investment strategy among individual investors. Many choose this method because of its simplicity – buying a stock and holding onto it, no matter how much the price rises or falls. Buy-and-hold investors usually sell their stocks only when they have reached a certain goal such [...]