In my opinion the following list are the best twelve Wall Street movies ever made based on their popularity, entertainment value, and lessons they teach for those paying attention. While these movies may not go too deep into how to make money in trading they do show the dangers of greed, fear, bubbles, and the […]
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Two popular and highly liquid Vanguard ETFs are ticker symbol VOO (S&P 500) and VTI (Total stock market). These are both stock market index exchange traded funds but perform differently. VOO invests in stocks that make up the S&P 500 Index. It holds around 500 of the largest U.S. companies. Its goal is to track
Float in a stock is the number of shares of a company that is currently trading publicly on the exchange and is available for traders and investors to buy and sell. The stock float is calculated by taking a company’s total issue of outstanding shares and subtracting any restricted stock. Pre IPO investors, employees and
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Wall Street goes through cycles based on the primary human emotions of greed and fear. There is a wide spectrum and phases of emotional behavior inside these two main drivers of investor behavior. The below Wall Street cheat sheet shows the impulses that drive each phase of a market cycle. The best solution to managing
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There are two primary types of stocks in the market, growth stocks and value stocks and each have specific characteristics for investors. Here is a summary of the differences between the two types. Value stocks allow the investor to buy a business at a great price, growth stocks allow an investor to buy the future
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Trending stocks are ones that are moving strongly in one direction whether up or down. Here are trending stock checklists: Stocks in an uptrend: Making higher highs and higher lows. Price is above key moving averages. The chart has moving average crossover signals. Price is near all time highs. Price is near 52-week highs. Volume
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When was Roblox made? The beta version of what would become known as Roblox was created by the co-founders David Baszucki and Erik Cassel and was originally called DynaBlocks. Mr. Baszucki started the testing of the first demos for the game in 2004. In 2005, the company then changed its name to Roblox before it
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In 2020, video games had revenue from the worldwide PC gaming market of almost $37 billion (U.S.) The mobile gaming market had income of approximately $77 billion (U.S.). The time, money, and attention driven to video games is monetized by companies for profit. Many of these companies are publicly traded for investors and traders to
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This is a guest post by @TraderLion_ When you look at the greatest stocks in history, there is one common element regardless of their story or sector, and that is superior price action and relative strength. And so one of the keys to achieving superior returns is learning how to identify stocks exhibiting relative strength
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Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway was holding 38 different company stocks in its portfolio on December 31st 2020, according to the most recent regulatory filing with the SEC in the 4th quarter of 2020. The five biggest positions account for over 67% of the portfolio’s value: $AAPL $BAC $KO $AXP and $KHC. The top ten
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In the stock market the big money is what moves the markets over the long term. The biggest money mover of all is the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world, their quantitative easing, interest rates, money supply, and monetary policy can create the larger market environment itself. Central banks drive markets with liquidity
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Here is a list of the largest companies by market cap today based on their publicly traded equity as of October 12, 2020 and listed for trading in the U.S. On this list there are five NASDAQ listed stocks and four NYSE listed stocks and one company that trades on the OTC market because it
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How does short selling work? Selling short reverses the normal order of buying and then selling. Selling short means to sell something you do not own. When you sell a stock short you borrow the stock from your broker and sell it to a buyer. You then owe the broker the shares. You receive cash
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The S&P 500 index is a system for quantifying and picking approximately 500 stocks that are updated regularly. The S&P 500 is weighted by market cap and stocks enter and leave their index based primarily on their size. Companies that do well and grow in market capitalization enter the S&P 500 and the companies that
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Here are the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio holdings managed by Warren Buffett as of March 31, 2020 that were reported in the 13F filing to the SEC on May 15, 2020 along with other filings. His portfolio holdings by sector: Information technology 39% Financials 35% Consumer Staples 16% Consumer discretionary 5% Industrials 3% Health Care 2% Company/Ticker/
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Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors, stock pickers, and CEOs of our time. There are some intangible things he looks for that you can’t put in a stock screener. When buying a stock he sees it as buying a business and he wants to buy future consistent cash flows for a discounted price.
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One big question so many people currently have that are knowledgeable about economics and investing is “What the hell is going on with the stock market?” As the pandemic expanded around the world in late February and early March economies of entire countries and then U.S. states started to shut down and quarantine their citizens
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Robert Shiller and Burton Malkiel recently did a debate on Pairagraph on the topic: Does Covid-19 Prove the Stock Market Is Inefficient? The article is reposted here by permission. This is a guest post from pairagraph.com. Genesis by Robert Shiller Economist, 2013 Nobel Prize: The gyrations of the world’s stock markets around the time of the onset of the coronavirus,
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One of the best places to get free historical price data going back over 60 years is finance.yahoo.com. Yahoo Finance provides historical price data that can be easily downloaded into Microsoft Excel and then used through the spreadsheet to backtest and study by creating formulas and filters. Here are the steps to download the historical stock
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Have you ever been curious if certain months of the year have any statistically significant stock market returns better or worse on average than other months. Here are the statistics for monthly S&P 500 index performance from 1950 to 2019 to let you see if you see any patterns. Month: Number of times with positive
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