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Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Investing on Automatic Pilot

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Todd Marvel
If you are like many investors who waste those small dividend checks from your stock portfolio, a Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRP) might be exactly what you require.Just as its name suggests, a Dividend Reinvestment Plan lets you reinvest some or all those dividends into more stock of the issuing firm.Unlike purchases made through conventional means, partial or fractional shares, in addition to whole shares, can be found...

The Exclusive Club of Large Caps

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Todd Marvel
Picture one of these clubs where only the real heavyweights need apply.From the library the old aristocrats, General Motors and JP Morgan, are dozing in their leather seats.On the patio, a late luncheon is underway for people who have just improved their standing through union.ExxonMobil and Citigroup are a part of the celebration.At the bar, lots of the"nouveau riche" have assembled - Microsoft appears to be purchasing for Intel and Hewlett Packard...

Are You A Stockaholic?

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Todd Marvel
Today's society gives special recognition to alcoholics, sexaholics, binge-aholics, shopaholics, chocaholics and other "-aholics".What about stockaholics? Stockaholics are people that are overly obsessive about their stock market investments.As approximately 50% of U.S.families directly or indirectly invest in the stock exchange, it is very likely that there currently exists a goodly number of undiagnosed stockaholics...

Trade Stocks for Real

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Todd Marvel
I read a remark by a forum member on another site earlier today that indicated that each and every investor should back test their system for at least twenty years.I disagree and will now tell you why.Back testing and paper trading appear to be the most over emphasized techniques made available by market theorists, educational elite, market novices and/or marketplace angels.While studying the pure fundamentals, I can see why a novice investor might want to paper trade; to find the outcomes of the growing system but I'll warn that these results are entirely untrue...

Trade Stocks

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Todd Marvel
Before you start trading, you absolutely need to know what stocks you would like to buy and hold for some time, to create going long or holding an extended stock position.You likewise need to know at what point holding that stock is not any longer worthwhile.Similarly, you should know at what price you need to enter or trade right into a position and at what price you wish to exit or trade out of a posture...