Learning 11 Stock Market Sectors

A stock market sector is a group of stocks that have a lot in common with each other, There are 11 different stock market sectors, according to Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

All about an Economic Recession

In this article, we explore what the signs are that a recession is coming, and what you can do to best ride it out. In an Economic Recession people lose jobs, can’t pay bills, and some lose their homes. There’s less money for essentials such as food and medical care.

Buy The Dip: What it Means & How To Do It

It refers to the act of buying stock on a decline that meets certain parameters. It is a natural tendency tied to loss aversion bias for many investors to get nervous and to consider selling when stocks begin to decline.

What are Junk Bonds? Definition & Benefit to Investors

Junk bonds carry a higher risk of default than other bonds, and thus pay higher returns to attract investors. Junk bonds are mostly issued by companies that have a relatively high risk of default.

Trading Chart’s Candlestick Cheat Sheet

This cheat sheet will help you to easily identify what kind of candlestick pattern you are looking at whenever you are trading

Investing in Advanced Micro Devices Stock (AMD)

AMD is a major semiconductor company with customers worldwide. The company designs and develops microprocessors (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), server and embedded processors

Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval

Five years ago, Intel was worth as much as Nvidia and AMD combined; now, Nvidia is worth as much as the other two as Taiwan Semi also surges, reflecting a massive change in the semiconductor industry in the past decade

Top 10 Candlestick Patterns To Trade the Markets

Candlestick patterns are important tools in technical trading. Understanding them allows traders to interpret possible market trends and form decisions from those inferences. This article will introduce the top 10 formations all traders should know to trade the markets with ease.

AMD vs Intel – Xilinx Acquisition Heats Up AMD Competition With Intel

With the $35 bln Xilinx acquisition complete, we analyze how AMD could increase its competitive positioning. Specifically, we looked into the potential benefits of the deal for its CPU and GPU businesses.

INTC: Intel will be the top semiconductor stock through 2030

Intel has a positive risk/reward rating based on its competitive advantage in research and development, the company’s aggressive capital investment strategy, and the vastly expanded opportunity set created as a result.

SPY: The Death Cross And What You Need To Know

The primary gauge of the US equity markets is the S&P 500 Index. It is the single best representation of the value of US-based global corporations. To review the technical backdrop of the S&P 500 Index, I have chosen to use the SPY as it is one of the most widely-quoted and traded Exchange Traded Funds that track the S&P 500.

Why would companies buy back their shares?

There are numerous reasons why it may be beneficial to a company to repurchase its shares, including ownership consolidation, undervaluation, and boosting its key financial ratios.

5 Ways Investing Experts Research Stocks

The best stock to invest in is the one you understand. You’ll want to know how the business is trending, if the company is profitable, what its future goals are, and how aggressively it’s hoping to expand.

What a Stock Split Means for the Average Investor

Amazon announced its board of directors approved a 20-for-1 stock split for the first time since 1999. This means share price would be significantly cheaper to buy. What does this really mean for an average investor?

Charts show the commodity market move with the war

The outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine is fueling a rally in all commodity markets, prompting investor anxieties that we may be just at the start of a prolonged period of price increase in commodity markets.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) vs Intel (INTC)

AMD has been very successful over the last half a decade. However, AMD bulls are not considering Intel competition they are facing. This poses large risks that are not being priced into the stock

Google (Alphabet Inc.) Stock Review

Alphabet is one of the most entrenched tech companies out there, controlling many popular apps as well as a popular mobile OS. However, there are some risks and challenges for investors

Put / Call Definitions What do they mean in Finance

The Call owner has the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying securities instrument at a given strike price within a given period. A Put gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell

Intel (INTC): Too Big To Fail Goes High-Tech

The Intel stock price indicates the market is expecting a worst-case outcome, but this company is Too Big To Fail for the U.S. economy. Intel (INTC) is this week’s Long Idea.