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How to Give Stocks As a Holiday Gift by Daniel Liberto
Buying gifts that adults actually want without breaking the bank is no easy task. But giving a share of company stock could perhaps help them one day generate enough money to purchase that one thing they don't have and have always wanted.
Give a gift that can grow over time →Investing
Warren Buffett’s 10 Best Lessons on How To Be Successful in Investing Story by Jacob Wade
Warren Buffett is worth almost $150 billion and is one of the best American investors of all time. He’s shared his wisdom with investors over the years, helping new and experienced investors learn to “be like Buffett.”
Here are 10 investing tips from the “Oracle of Omaha” himself to help you build your wealth →Investing
Nasdaq CEO shares the best investing advice she’s given her own son: It’s a ‘foundational element of wealth creation’ by Ashton Jackson
“Learn by doing — with small amounts of money, or even on platforms where you don’t actually have to use real money,” said Friedman. “As you get more engaged and more educated, you can start to take more risks ... and then get more confidence.”
Investing is a foundational element of wealth creation →Investing
4 tips to keep your emotions out of investing by Becca Stanek
1. Have a long-term goal in mind when investing 2. Make sure to diversify your investment portfolio 3. Try the practice of dollar-cost averaging 4. Hire a financial professional to work with
Investing is not one of the areas of life where it makes sense to involve your emotions →Investing
6 Top Investing Moves To Make Ahead of Fall, According to Experts by Heather Taylor
With the fall season, and Q4, around the corner, now is the best time to check in with your investing goals for 2024. Whether you’re right on track or are a little behind.
There’s still time to get all your ducks in a row ahead of 2025 and reap the financial benefits that come with it →Investing
Stock Market Simulator
Practice trading strategies so that when you're ready to enter the real market, you've had the practice you need.
Trade virtual stocks for free and learn how the stock market works through our simulator →Investing
3 Things Investors Can Learn From Warren Buffett by Keonhee Kim
1) Don’t overpay for stocks, and be patient 2) Favor companies with moats 3) When in doubt, index
Here are just a few things that investors of all experience levels--can learn from Buffett →Investing
10 Common Investing Mistakes To Avoid by Brean Horne
1) Not building a rainy day fund 2) Forgetting about inflation 3) Not setting financial goals 4) Not using your tax allowance 5) Forgetting fees 6) Not diversifying 7) Not doing your research 8) Following fads 9) Reviewing your investments too little (or too much!) 10) Not learning from your mistakes
Take a closer look at 10 common investing mistakes and how to avoid them →Word of the week
Stock
A stock is a type of investment that is mostly offered on stock markets and signifies the holder's proportional ownership in the issuing company.
What Are Stocks? How Do They Work? →Infographic of the week
Vanguard finds Canadians’ 50% allocation to home market higher than the recommended 30% Posted By Jonathan Chevreau
A just-released study from Vanguard Canada on Home Country Bias shows that Canadians have about 50% of their portfolios allocated to Canadian equities: well beyond what is recommended for a country that makes up less than 3% of the global stock market.
Too much Canada in your portfolio can be volatile →Investing
Financial Educational Resource Hub
Whether you're just starting out or looking to brush up on your investing skills, we'll help you make smarter decisions about saving, investing and protecting your money.
Smart Investing from NASDAQ →Infographic of the week
Visualized: The Growth of Clean Energy Stocks
Over the last few years, energy investment trends have shifted from fossil fuels to renewable and sustainable energy sources. Long-term energy investors now see significant returns from clean energy stocks, especially compared to those invested in fossil fuels alone. For this graphic, Visual Capitalist has collaborated with EnergyX to examine the rise of clean energy stocks and gain a deeper understanding of the factors driving this growth.
The Growth of Clean Energy Stocks →Investing
Stock Investment Tips for Beginners
Starting to invest? Tips for beginners can help you start to fine-tune your investment strategies and take advantage of stock investment tools.
CharlesSchwab - Don't think of yourself as a beginner at all →Infographic of the week
Visualizing the Growth of $100, by Asset Class
Which major asset class has generated the strongest returns over the long run? How do the returns of investments like bonds and real estate actually stack up? To put investment returns in perspective, this graphic shows the growth of $100 by asset class over the long term, based on data from Aswath Damodaran at NYU Stern.
Comparing Asset Class Returns →Investing
Investment Tracking
- Neontra aggregates and tracks all your investments in one place. - Measure the performance over time on your stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, fixed assets and crypto. - Forecast growth scenarios for all your investments. - Catch hidden investment fees.
Track all your investments in one place with Neontra →Investing
10 Tips for Successful Long-Term Investing
While the stock market is riddled with uncertainty, certain tried-and-true principles can help investors boost their chances for long-term success.
By THE INVESTOPEDIA TEAM, 10 Tips for Successful Long-Term Investing →Investing
A beginner’s guide to investing in the stock market
Investing can be one of the more complex concepts in personal finance. But it’s also one of the key cornerstones to financial independence and wealth building.
Kevin L. Matthews II on how to start investing and decide on your investing goals →Word of the week
Rebalancing
Rebalancing entails adjusting your investment holding to desired percentages for your stocks and bonds. Let's take an example where your target allocation is 20% bonds, 20% cash, and 60% stocks. You may now have a 70 percent stock, 10 percent bond, and 20 percent cash allocation if the stock market has done really well over the last year. You can sell some stocks and reinvest the proceeds in bonds to rebalance your portfolio, or you can add more bonds to the portfolio to restore its original balance.
How To Rebalance Your Investment Portfolio →Saving
You don't need to be an expert to grow a nest egg. We'll cover how to build your portfolio, when to sell (or not sell) stocks and how to avoid fees.
NPR Life Kit Podcast: Investing for beginners →Investing
10 Best Dividend Stocks Of February 2024 by Cory Mitchell
Dividend investing provides investors with steady cash flow over the long term. When you reinvest dividend income, the magic of compounding can turbocharge your returns. Over the last century, dividend payments accounted for about 40% of the total return of the S&P 500.
These companies have boosted annual dividend payouts for at least 10 years with attractive yields →Did you know?
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), established in 1790, is older than the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and even as late as 1815, London banks looked to Philadelphia rather than New York to buy American securities.
How New York Became the Center of American Finance →Investing
10 Top Tech Stocks Of February 2024 by Dock David Treece
The best tech stocks come from companies that are building the future. Whether they manufacture sleek mobile devices or develop the digital services you can’t live without, fast-growing technology stocks can set portfolios into hyperdrive.
The 10 largest tech sector companies profiled →Investing
Here Are Barron’s 12 Best Income Investments for the New Year
What looked to be another bond-market tragedy morphed into a feel-good story following a volatile round trip in 2023 that ended with a historic Treasury rally. Yet, opportunities still abound for income-seeking investors.
Andrew Bary: Stocks with dividends lead our annual listing. Energy pipelines and utilities also look like good bets. →Infographic of the week
Tech Giants’ Stock Performance: A Three-Year Review (2020-2023)
In the last three years tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft navigate through market volatility due to the global pandemic. In 2020, the pandemic led to a market selloff, but companies like Zoom and Shopify experienced growth due to increased demand during lockdowns.
Maureen Okonkwo's Viz at Tableau Public →Investing
You may want to change your investing strategy in 2024
Calling the remarkable past few weeks on Wall Street a Santa Claus rally or an end-of-year winning streak would be an understatement.
Nicole Goodkind from CNN on your investment strategy for 2024 →Investing
2023 Stock Market Year In Review
In 2022, the S&P 500 bounced back from its worst year in over a decade, and it is on track to finish 2023 up as well, with a gain of about 21% through November 30. The ride for investors hasn’t always been a smooth one, though. Most of the market’s gains came early in 2023.
Forbes ADVISOR on the Stock Market as we close out 2023 →Investing
Virtual Portfolio and Watchlist
With our free Virtual Portfolio, you can take your first steps into the investing without risking losing any money. Select, monitor and evaluate performance of thousands of ETFs, stocks or funds.
Simulate the trading of thousands of stocks, ETFs, commodities and currencies →Infographic of the week
Visualizing 30 Years of Investor Sentiment
The link between investor sentiment and the stock market is not linear. In fact, many consider extreme sentiment readings as a contrarian indicator. If sentiment swings sharply in one direction, some investors may consider this a signal to do the reverse.
Investor sentiment and U.S. stock prices over modern history →Investing
Tips for Avoiding the Top 20 Common Investment Mistakes
When learning how to invest, it is important to learn from the best, but it also pays to learn from the worst. These top 20 most common mistakes have been compiled to help investors know what to watch out for. If any of these mistakes sound familiar, it is likely time to meet with a financial adviser.
The CFA Institute on investment mistakes →Infographic of the week
Timing the Market: Why It’s So Hard, in One Chart
Timing the market seems simple enough: buy when prices are low and sell when they’re high.
The Pitfalls of Timing the Market →Investing
How to start investing in stocks, index funds, crypto, NFTs – and more
Investing doesn’t have to be complicated. Here’s what you need to know before investing your hard-earned cash.
How does investing work →Investing
3 common mistakes investors make — and how to avoid them
In our daily lives, we know it’s hard to break bad habits, like eating too much junk food. The same is true for investing. Just as understanding which foods are better for you, knowledge is power when it comes to your portfolio.
Nobody’s perfect, especially when it comes to investing →Infographic of the week
See the Markets in a Minute
S&P 500 companies hold $7.1 trillion in assets, and account for close to 80% of available market capitalization on U.S. stock exchanges. The index serves as a barometer for the U.S. stock market, covering the largest public U.S. companies by market capitalization. Often, it reflects investor sentiment and is considered an indicator for U.S. economic health.
Visualizing Every Company on the S&P 500 Index →Investing
Stock Market Simulator
Our Markets Simulator can help you learn about the stock market and practice trading real stocks at real prices, without risking real money.
Make virtual simulated trades and learn how the stock market works all at no cost →Investing
What is the stock market and how does it work?
Investing in the stock market is a good way to build wealth over time, but it can feel a little intimidating to get started.
The Stock Market, explained →Serious stuff
Warren Buffett’s ‘secret sauce’ for investing success: Be ‘business pickers’ not ‘stock pickers’
Learn what value investing means and how it can help grow your Net Worth →Investing
9 easy steps to start investing in Canada:
1. Assess your risk tolerance 2. Choose Your Investing Style 3. Decide How Much You Can Invest 4. Pick the Right Kind of Stock Investments 5. Choose a broker 6. Open the right investment account 7. Diversify Your Stocks 8. Keep a Steady Eye on Your Portfolio 9. Invest Consistently for the Long-Term
How to Start Investing in Canada: 9 Steps to Success →Infographic of the week
Just 20 Stocks Have Driven S&P 500 Returns So Far in 2023
Truman Du shows which stocks are making up the vast majority of S&P 500 returns amid AI market euphoria and broader market headwinds.
Tech and AI stocks have soared as ChatGPT became a household name in 2023 →Investing
Investment Tracking
Neontra aggregates and tracks all your investments in one place.
Measure your performance over time →Investing
Test before you invest
Build and test your strategies with a fully-functional trading simulator, including stocks, metals, crypto and FX.
Take your first steps into the investment world without risking losing any money →Investing
Market News and Charts
At Neontra, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, charts, international market data and you can build a SIM portfolio.
Market tools to help you test before you invest →Investing
Investing in individual stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds can be difficult to learn.
One of the best ways to learn how to invest is to use market simulators or virtual portfolios to learn how to buy and sell stocks before you invest real money.
You can create a SIM portfolio here →← Curating the web to find the most interesting and helpful information about your money.