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How to Choose the Right Brokerage Account for Online Investing
Online investors are unlikely to have tax consultants on retainer, so they need to know how picking the right kind of account can lower their tax bills. Brokerage accounts might all seem the same; after [more…]
How Capital Gains Are Taxed
People who invest online are usually do-it-yourself investors. Without a tax consultant for guidance, online investors need to understand how the money they earn while investing is taxed. That means understanding [more…]
Understanding the Types of Brokerage Firms
Choosing a broker to help you in your online investing means deciding what kind of broker you need. Self-service brokers — those used most by online investors — are commonly grouped into three baskets: [more…]
How to Open Your Brokerage Account
After you’ve made the decision about which broker to help you manage your online investments, the hard work is done. All you need to do to get started is open an account and get your cash to the broker [more…]
Choosing How to Hold Your Online Investments
The biggest factor that influences how your online investments will make their way to Wall Street depends on how you hold your shares. Street name ownership is the most common with most online brokers. [more…]
How Online Investment Trading Works
When you buy or sell a stock on your online broker’s site, your order is usually filled in seconds. But, before that transaction is completed, in milliseconds your order snakes its way through an advanced [more…]
How to Trade in Stocks Online
Trading in stocks online is not like shopping at your local major retailer, where prices are set. Because investments are priced in real time through active bidding between buyers and sellers, there are [more…]
How to Sell Stock Short
Ordinarily when you invest in stocks online, you hope to profit from a company’s good times and rising profits. But there’s a whole other class of investors, called [more…]
How to Buy Stock on Margin
When you set up your online brokerage account, the most common type of brokerage account type is called a cash account. But many online investors request a margin account that lets them buy stocks with [more…]
Online Tools to Help Determine Investment Risk
Before you start to invest online, you need to know how much you can invest. Most beginning online investors are so interested in finding stocks that make them rich overnight that they lose sight of risk [more…]
How to Track Investment News Online
As an online investor, you will need to stay on top of all sorts of market news. In addition to tracking your stocks on the Dow or S&P, you might want to track other market activities, like the ones listed [more…]
How to Get Financial Information from the SEC
If you are an online investor, you can use your computers to keep tabs on regulatory filings from companies just as professional investors do. If companies make any significant announcements, they’re required [more…]
How to Avoid Hidden Online Trading Fees
When you invest online, the stock trade commission is likely the fee you’ll pay the most often, so it’s wise to pay the most attention to it. But don’t think it’s the only fee online investors have to [more…]
How Dividends Work
If you are investing online and have a taxable brokerage account, you need to understand dividends. Dividends are paid based on how many shares you own. If a company declares a [more…]
Buying Stocks and Mutual Funds without a Broker
Can you be an online investor without a broker? Sure. Some online investors want to buy stocks but don’t want to bother with a broker. There’s nothing that says you need to have a broker to buy and sell [more…]
How to Determine whether Your Stocks Are Being Sold Short
As an online investor, you might be interested in finding out how many investors are shorting a stock you own, a statistic known as short interest. Some investors even incorporate tracking short interest [more…]
How to Trade in Options Online
One way to invest money online is to buy options. If you own an option, you have the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an investment, including shares of stock by a certain preset time in the [more…]
How to Trade in Penny Stocks
Penny stocks, due to their tiny share prices, allow online investors to buy large numbers of shares. Owning large chunks of stock is appealing, but penny stocks can also be easily manipulated. Unlike giant [more…]
How to Find Earnings Reports for Wise Online Investing
Online investors use earnings reports to make investment decisions. Your stock’s ultimate value will be determined by how profitable the company is in the long term. Earnings reports tell you how much [more…]
Where to Find Financial Info for Smart Online Investing
When you are investing online, keeping up with what’s going on in the world of finance is key to financial success. To make informed decisions, you can monitor industry changes, company mergers, market [more…]
Access Economic Reports for Wise Online Investing
Smart online investors closely monitor the health of the economy. They look for any sign the economy is speeding up, slowing down, or going sideways. They rapidly buy or sell stocks if their opinion changes [more…]
How to Calculate Your Investment Returns
If you haven’t deposited money into or taken any money out of your brokerage account, it’s relatively easy to measure your rate of return for the year. Just follow these steps: [more…]
How to Download and Read Financial Statements
Financial statements are detailed documents that show online investors all the important numbers from a company, ranging from how profitable it is to how financially secure it is. Most of the detailed [more…]
How to Gauge Companies' Financial Growth Rates Using Reuters Online
Examining financial statements can help make you a smart online investor. Reuters financial news service enables you to look for patterns or for things that don’t fit a company’s usual trend, such as a [more…]
How to Determine a Company’s Worth
Online investors can use a company’s worth to determine whether to invest with them. To learn more about companies you might want to invest in, you can study the income statement, the balance sheet, and [more…]
