There are only two steps involved in stock trading: Buying and selling. Those are the easy parts. What’s difficult is knowing exactly when to do them. Your stock entry point and exit strategy need to be aligned to maximize the profit potential. Here are a few approaches to think about when deciding when to jump…
The stock market is a reflection of human nature as much as it is of the economy. When we see a lot of people buy a product or follow a celebrity’s Twitter account, we’re more enticed to do so ourselves. When we see a lot of people stay away from a local restaurant or abandon…
You’ve probably heard the old (and we do mean old) joke: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Hilarious as that joke is (stop groaning), there’s a lot of truth to it. And it may also answer the question, “How do you get to Wall Street?” It’s important to learn about financial concepts in…
Man, is this the way that the market is going to operate now? That a stock can come on the scene, and in a relatively short period of time, become one of the biggest stocks on the planet… And just a few short years later – it begins its inevitable plunge southward. It used to…
The road to personal financial wealth has to start somewhere. With all the complex and varied options on the stock market, it can be hard to find where that start is. While the main goal of any stock investor is to make profits on their holdings, it’s also important to build one’s portfolio in the…
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…
Practice doesn’t always make perfect, but it does always make better. That’s even more true when one is learning the tangled, elaborate controls of the stock market. At some point, prospective traders need to put the books and articles down and get their hands dirty with some real work. Just as retail investing has picked…
Investors use several different methods to evaluate a company’s worth. Sometimes, negative information may be a positive sign that may encourage investment. Declines in stock prices, revenue, growth, or dividends aren’t always, in and of themselves, deal-killers when it comes to investment decisions. They may indicate opportunities. That is very much not the case with…
Charles Darwin was a trailblazer in many different ways… But it is his theory of Darwinism – that species evolve and survive through natural selection – is the feather in his proverbial cap. The layman has broken it down to one four-word sentence – “survival of the fittest” – as some like to call it,…
Many investors are content to be passive about their holdings. They buy a few blue-chip stocks. They walk away. They go about their lives. They check in on their portfolio now and then just to make sure society hasn’t collapsed. They know they’ll see gains over the long term. Some investors, on the other hand,…