Adulting is hard. If you’re in your 20s, you might find yourself trying to juggle a number of financial responsibilities: Student loans, rent, medical bills, car payments, student loans, phone bills, student loans, utilities—and did we mention student loans? Millennials have historically been accused of being lazy or making poor financial decisions, such as the…
Pop quiz! Can you tell us the difference between a bull and a bear market? Can you use the word “arbitrage” in a sentence? What does the acronym “IPO” stand for? If these stock terms have you drawing a blank, don’t feel bad. According to data published by the New York Post, most Americans can’t…
Thinking of investing in the stock market? The process may seem overwhelming. The options seem endless, and you may find yourself biting your nails, worried you might miss out on a sure thing. There’s no crystal ball for determining market performance, but there are some basic methods you can use when it comes to researching…
Last week, we talked about MEME Stocks and how they’re changing Wall Street on a fundamental level. This isn’t just MY assessment of what these stocks are doing… There are plenty of people on Wall Street that agree with me in the fact that MEME stocks have changed everything. All we knew – all the…
For stock market investors, the meteoric rise of Amazon stock is impossible to ignore. Amazon made its stock market debut in 1997, where its initial public offering (IPO) was $18 per share. The financial experts at CNBC did the math: If you had purchased $1,000 worth of Amazon stock in 1997, your investment would grow…
In the world of investment, knowledge is power. If you’re an investor, you want to be sure you’re making the best choices possible. That means you need to know as much about a company as possible. These days, the problem isn’t necessarily a lack of information. A casual internet search will yield more data than…
Many of us envision savings accounts and stock investment accounts as means to set aside money and hopefully earn a little on the side. There are, however, crucial differences in the saving and investment definitions — and they may be causing some Americans to favor one over the other. The Motley Fool reports that 71%…
I can remember as a kid – hearing my dad listen to financial news radio as he would drive me to the bus stop… I wanted to listen to anything BUT financial news – even the Bee Gees – but it was my dad’s ritual – and he’d have thumped me in the ear had…
Nearly half of all Americans don’t invest in the stock market. There are plenty of reasons why: Fear, mysteriousness, inexperience, or just lack of interest. But one of the biggest reasons is concern about how much money investing really costs. According to MarketWatch, many stock market holdouts simply believe they can’t afford to invest. They…
GorillaTrades’ Founder and CEO, Ken Berman, takes the time to personally address a subscriber’s question in this brief video. The Gorilla addresses a variety of topics, with the goal of providing GorillaTrades subscribers with a better understanding of the system, and ultimately, improving their overall returns. There are new features being added constantly, and this is just one of…