Before the internet was available to almost everyone, potential investors needed to visit and work with a traditional brick and mortar, storefront brokerage firm, which often charged their customers hefty fees for the privilege of watching and managing their money, design an investment strategy and helping them grow and sustain their wealth. In the last […]

Dividend stocks are a good way to build long term, sustainable wealth. A dividend is simply a cash payment made to stockholders once the company begins to turn a profit. While most companies pay dividends in cash, some companies pay out dividends as additional shares. This is called stock shares. When companies opt for cash […]

Whether you have a long-term investment strategy, designed to help you create, build, and maintain wealth, or you are a high risk investors looking to buy and sell high volumes of penny stock over the short term, you are always on the lookout for hot stock picks. While long-term investors prepare for the inevitable up […]

In general, as long as the company in which you have invested is sound, your long-term investment strategy should reap dividends over the long haul. The key to solid investment strategy is to keep your long-term goal and growth in mind. Long term investors have the luxury of time, so they can withstand some market […]

Finding cheap and affordable stock takes a little legwork, some research, and a lot of patience. Exploring affordable stocks, undervalued stock, and penny stocks opens up your investing strategy for a completely new type of investment. As always, smart investors do their research and keep their portfolio diversified to mitigate risk and reap more rewards. […]

When we first learned that the Federal Poverty Level or FPL would tie in directly to how much California health insurance would cost, we had only an inkling of what the numbers were. Many people have no idea what the Federal Poverty Levels are but that\’s about to change with the advent of the Health […]

A stock represents a share in any company. Companies issue stock as a way to raise capital without guaranteeing payments to creditors and interest rates. Stock certificates represent your claim on a company’s assets and earnings and assure you of voting rights. While owning stock doesn’t mean you handle the day to day management of […]

When the financial news networks cover the stock market, they tend to focus on the stocks traded on the major stock exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDQ, The London Stock Exchange and the Japanese Nikkei. For many investors, these traditional stocks, and the heft brokerage fees and the long waiting time in […]

The term \”penny stock\” refers to a type of stock that generally trades below $5.00 a share. Also known as micro-cap trading, penny stocks are not traded on any of the major markets, like the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDQ, they are traded \”over the counter\” using what investors call pink sheets. Companies […]

Long-term investors want to pay close attention to a company’s earnings, liquidity, debts and assets in order to develop and implement an investment strategy to meet his or her long and short term financial goals. Investors in the penny stock market generally have more short term goals, but they should pay attention to the same […]