Listen to Preston’s podcast about studying billionaires here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-investors-podcast/id928933489 Richard Branson is a British entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist whose fortune comes mostly from the multinational Virgin group, which has more than 400 companies under its control including Virgin Galactic of SpaceShipOne project fame and Virgin Atlantic. He gained prominence for his work in transportation, retail,
I want to share with you the advantages and disadvantages of being a day trader. If you want to trade stocks and looking to become a day trader, it’s important to understand what you’re getting yourself into and the advantages and the disadvantages. So in case you want to change and become a swing trader,
Kevin Matras shows how to minimize your risk when buying options.
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In this article AAPL GOOGL FB NFLX AMZN Google announced last week 60% of its workforce will work around three days a week in the office, 20% in new office locations, and 20% from home. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images If 2020 taught us that we were all naïve about
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said he would be aggressively pursuing bad financial actors who were “playing with working families’
In this article DECK FDS NCLH HD RCL Pedestrians pass in front of a Ross Stores location in San Francisco. Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: Ross Stores — Shares of the retailer rose roughly 2% in extended trading after posting better-than-expected fiscal
Stem (NYSE:STEM) has a very profitable battery energy hardware and storage business that the market does not fully appreciate. Since going public via SPAC (special purpose reverse merger) on April 27, STEM stock has dropped 26% from $26.61 on April 28 to $21.10 on May 20. I think the stock is worth at least 71% higher
Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deals that looked great in February now look very dicey. Like the effort by Churchill Capital IV (NASDAQ:CCIV) to buy electric car maker Lucid Motors and become LCID. The CCIV stock story highlights the risks in the SPAC phenomenon. Source: Dmitry Demidovich/ShutterStock.com First, you don’t know the merger target. Once
MindMed (NASDAQ:MNMD) stock may be up over 665% over the past twelve months. But, is this psychedelics play on the verge of taking off once again? Source: Shutterstock As InvestorPlace’s William White reported May 17, the company has made big progress with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), regarding one of its key initiatives, Project
Have you every wanted to buy commercial real estate, but you didn’t know how to get into the game? In this episode, Preston and Stig harness the decades of experience from our mystery guest and learn how he built a real estate portfolio with over 100 units. You’ll learn how real estate is valued and
ETFs are more tax efficient than mutual funds due to the way they are structured. However not all ETFs are tax smart. zacks.com zacks.com/ultimate
Jamie Dimon, CEO, JP Morgan Chase, speaking at the Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit, December 6, 2018. Janhvi Bhojwani | CNBC JPMorgan Chase is going it alone. After the healthcare joint venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and the biggest U.S. bank by assets was disbanded earlier this year, the companies each vowed to continue
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE The Federal Reserve may be trying to project a coherent vision on what it expects its policy on future rate hikes will be, but the market cannot seem to agree on what version of the Fed it wants to believe. Does it want
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Virgin Galactic (SPCE) – Virgin Galactic shares surged 14.1% in the premarket after the space travel company said the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity will occur on May 22. Virgin Galactic said a maintenance review on VMS Eve – the mothership
UWM Holdings (NYSE:UWMC) is a most interesting company. UWM, which is short for United Wholesale Mortgage, rose to prominence earlier this year thanks to the r/WallStreetBets excitement. Traders bid it up in hopes of a huge short squeeze. This did not happen. In fact, UWMC stock has crashed. However, unlike many Reddit stocks, this one
Investors seek high risk-adjusted total returns through share appreciation and dividends. Therefore, long-term equity investing is regarded as the best income and wealth compounding engine available to retail investors. Today’s article introduces seven dividend-paying long-term stocks for retirement portfolios. Over the past 12 months, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 Index, and the
In my last write-up for Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ:RIDE) stock, I suggested that the company may be overvalued based on economic metrics. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com Specifically, unemployment trends for the construction industry were more negative than the national trend, which suggested that commercial fleet owners would not be willing to open their wallets. Naturally,
106.71 The current reading of the Investopedia Anxiety Index is slightly above neutral, indicating a higher level of anxiety. Markets Today Global equity markets are fairly muted as Asian bourses open after yesterday’s holiday. U.S. futures are pointing to a relatively flat open, although tech stocks remain under pressure for the fourth day in a
It has been over 3 months since the first massive short squeeze in GameStop (NYSE:GME) stock. Since then, trading interest and social media chatter around GME stock has died down. Many traders have turned their attention to other short squeeze stocks, tech names and cryptocurrencies. Source: rblfmr / Shutterstock.com Normally, when a stock loses interest,