Investors often invest in funds through a variety of individual and family accounts and, as a result, sometimes receive multiple…
You can find the holiday schedules and trading hours for the national securities exchanges on each of their websites. You…
High-Yield Investment Programs (HYIP) are unregistered investments typically run by unlicensed individuals – and they are often frauds. The hallmark…
Bonds that are believed to have a higher risk of default and receive low ratings by credit rating agencies, namely…
Like mutual funds, hedge funds pool investors’ money and invest the money in an effort to make a positive return.…
A Good-Til-Cancelled (GTC) order is an order to buy or sell a stock that lasts until the order is completed…
A publicly held company generally means a company that has a class of securities that is registered with the SEC…
GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) are accounting standards, conventions and rules. It is what companies use to measure their financial…
A municipal bond not secured by any assets; instead it is backed by the issuer's power to tax residents to…
Markets that trade futures contracts for commodities such as gold, oil or wheat, as well as financial futures.