Stock Market Today

Compounding  to Wealth Most wealth is built steadily over long periods of time. There are exceptions such as some of the dot com wealth that was built in the second half of the 1990′s. (At least for those that were smart enough to protect their assets from the downturn.) That was a unique period in [...]

There are many forms of risk management such as overall diversification  with the use of various asset classes, the ratio of equities  to fixed income, and the use of long-term trending to periodically change the asset allocation. Since I prefer to use mutual funds rather than individual stocks, diversification is easy to accomplish. As a [...]

ECNs If the thought of your broker making money off the bid/ask spread makes you less than thrilled, you should be aware that there are alternatives for trading, such as Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs). Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs) represent orders in Nasdaq stocks; they internally match buy and sell orders or represent the highest bid [...]

Before you start trading  stocks, it’s a good idea to understand the process of trading. Most buyers in this country are accustomed to retail shopping, where the prices are set beforehand by the seller. The stock market operates more like an auction, in which both buyers and sellers are actively setting the prices at the [...]

Not surprisingly, the Nasdaq Composite tracks all of the stocks listed on the Nasdaq exchange . The index dates back to 1971, which is when the Nasdaq exchange was first formalized. The index is used mainly to track technology stocks, and thus it is not a good indicator of the market as a whole. Unlike [...]