Dec 8, 2012 | The Basics, Types of Analysis
LEVEL: BEGINNER The Securities and Exchange Commission was founded in 1934 in response to the Great Depression and the financial crisis that began on Wall Street due to heavy speculation, a lack of reliable information, and heavy leveraging. The SEC was designed to...
Nov 28, 2012 | Stock Market Basics, The Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER The investment world is an interesting place; while it’s popular in some circles to bash on Wall Street and stockholders for having too much political and economic power, the fact is that there is a pretty rigid hierarchy in the financial world...
Nov 28, 2012 | Equities, The Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER Small Cap Stocks Small-cap stocks are the first of the three sizes of companies typically listed on exchanges, and have valuations between $300 million and $2 billion. As of the end of November 2012, 1078 companies of this size were listed on Google...
Nov 28, 2012 | Equities, The Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER There are many different types of common stocks available for investors to buy and sell both on and off exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ. The most popular and common are the so-called large-cap stocks like IBM (IBM),...
Nov 8, 2012 | ETFs, The Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER For traders on the Zolio platform, ETFs are an extremely valuable financial tool because they can be traded like stocks during the day, but they allow traders to invest in non-equity markets, such as government bonds, fixed income, commodities, and so...
Nov 8, 2012 | The Basics, Trading Basics
LEVEL: BEGINNER Earnings are a fundamental part of the business world and are the focus for equity and debt investors around the world. The report is more important than the headline number a company will publish along with its other financial statements (balance...
