Beginner Tips

Top 10 Trading Tips for Beginning Investors

by Mark Brookshire Published September 16, 2009 | 7175 read

Educate yourself first. You don’t make a major purchase or undertake a new project without doing some research first, talking to those that have experience, trying to educating yourself on... read more »

International Stocks

by Survivor University Published August 12, 2009 | 1430 read

China is expected to grow at 8 percent annually between 2006 and 2010. India is expected to grow at nearly 9 percent annually. International stocks sound more and more appealing with double... read more »

What are Mutual Funds?

by Survivor University Published May 13, 2009 | 6639 read

Mutual Funds are a collection of investments under one umbrella which is managed by a professional. These investments can be anything from stocks, commodities to bonds and money market securities.... read more »

Buy and Hold Strategy

by Survivor University Published March 20, 2009 | 2388 read

The buy and hold strategy is essentially just what it sounds like: Purchase stocks and then hold them for an extended period of time. The underlying assumption for the buy and hold strategy is that... read more »

What is the S&P 500 Index?

by Survivor University Published March 18, 2009 | 7372 read

The S&P 500 Index (Standard and Poor's 500 Index) is a composite of the 500 most actively traded public companies in all ten economic sectors of the U.S., and is maintained by Standard and Poor's,... read more »

What is the Dow Index?

by Chris Raymond Published March 12, 2009 | 6031 read

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, commonly known as "the Dow", is a stock index of 30 of the largest and most influential companies from American Industry. It was founded by Charles H. Dow in 1896,... read more »

Absolute vs. Relative Return

by Survivor University Published March 11, 2009 | 4172 read

Absolute return is simply the return on a particular asset, portfolio or investment. If you purchased an asset at $10 and after a year its value is $12 the absolute return for that asset was 20... read more »

Money Markets Made Easy

by Survivor University Published March 01, 2009 | 629 read

What is the difference between a money market mutual fund and a money market account? If you are like most Americans, many of which actually have one or both of these types of investments, you really... read more »

Dividend Stocks

by Survivor University Published March 01, 2009 | 665 read

Dividends are profit distributions made to shareholders by a company. Instead of reinvesting all of the profits, a company may decide to distribute the profits instead. For many years, dividends... read more »

What is a Stock?

by Survivor University Published February 20, 2009 | 4457 read

A stock is the fractional ownership of a business. When you buy shares of stock in a company, you are buying a small fraction of the business and all the profits that go along with it. The two main... read more »