If you have money that you would like to invest to help grow your overall finances, you might have considered a high interest savings account in a bank, the stock market, bonds, and so forth. Of course, the fastest way to make profit (but also the most risky) is by using the stock market. It is for this reason that people putting money into stocks should have as much information on them as possible to help them avoid losing it all.
Amateurs And Day Traders Are Being Attracted To Contracts For Difference
A contract for difference (CFD) is an agreement between two parties to exchange the difference between the opening price and the closing price of a contract, multiplied by the number of shares, as calculated at the contracts close.
Spreading Your Investment And Savings Risks
The world stock markets are going through quite a turbulent period at present and on average around ten percent has been wiped off some of the leading markets over the last month. In this article I write about how on a personal note I try to save in a series of different financial products which helps me to spread the risk, including when we have these stock market falls.
VIX and the Psychology of Markets
We know that greed and fear rule the markets. But did you know that when investors gets too greedy, markets usually fall, and when investors are overcome with fear, markets usually rise. So how can we monitor investors emotions and take advantage of investors emotional extremes?
Investment Series Investor Versus Trader
Many people have mixed up the terms Investor and Trader to mean the same thing. They cant be more wrong. It is exactly the mixing up of these 2 very important terms that led to many people starting on the wrong foot in the capital markets.
An Investor is a person who puts his money where it can potentially generate a return. He does not usually get involved in the money making process. Investors include buyers of investment real estate and buyers of funds.
A Tr…