Conventional investing wisdom tells you to park your cash in an index fund and then sit back and relax. Stock market corrections and bear markets? Don't worry about them - the market always goes up. Is this true? Does the market really always go up? I'd like to...
Premarket movers – stocks trading well above or below their previous day’s closing price or with a lot of volume before the market opens – provide a number of exciting opportunities for day traders. Typically, premarket movers are jumping in response to news or...
I am now more convinced than ever that we are in a stock market bubble. I will offer what I consider "proof," but first let's get a few things straight. 1. The Stock Market is a Very Real Game The stock market is a unique part of the economy. It contains properties...
The VIX Explained The VIX is a well debated, but much misunderstood index. You’ll often hear financial media pundits refer to it as the “fear gauge” or “fear index” of the stock market, which is mostly true. Put simply as possible, the VIX projects the implied...