How To Trade Stocks

Basics Of The Mechanics Behind Electronic Trading – Investopedia

Electronic trading is easy. Log in to your account. Select the security you wish to buy or sell. Click the mouse or tap your phone, and the transaction takes place. From an investor’s perspective, it’s simple and easy. But behind the scenes, it is a complex process backed by an impressive array of technology. What was once associated with shouting […]

Twitter's Opening Trade Could Be Wild – Business Insider

Eric Gaillard/ReutersTwitter has done everything in its power to be the anti-Facebook, as far as its IPO is concerned.
It’s going public while it’s still in hyper-growth mode, unlike Facebook.
It’s listing on the NYSE instead of the NASDAQ.
It’s setting a low price range for the IPO, giving investors an opportunity to grab a big upside.
It filed for “secret” IPO.
And […]

What Is Twitter Worth – Business Insider

Bloomberg TVKatie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter’s head of international.Twitter’s IPO is ready to price, and, predictably, many pundits are going on about how stupid investors are to buy the stock.
Twitter is losing money, these pundits observe.It’s a social network, like the disastrous Facebook.Twitter hasn’t proven anything yet.Twitter investors are so deluded and ridiculous, these pundits roar, that they’ve already agreed to […]

Twitter may trade below IPO price if history is guide | Financial Post

Twitter Inc.’s initial public offering may be a great opportunity for investors, but there’s significant risk of a disappointing payoff in the early days and weeks following the social media giant’s debut, says Colin Cieszynski, a market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.“Analysis of previous technology and social media IPOs with high public profiles over the last ten years shows that, […]

Investing with Borrowed Funds: No "Margin" for Error | FINRA.org

With investor purchases of securities “on margin” averaging more than $406 billion for the first nine months of 2013 (a 27 percent increase over the same period last year), we are re-issuing this alert because we are concerned that many investors may underestimate the risks of trading on margin and misunderstand the operation and reason for margin calls. Investors who […]