Individual Investing and Trading

We offer numerous resources and information for the individual investor. No matter the size of your portfolio we have something that will help. Our editors are seasoned traders themselves and offer tips and advice on how to trade in any market.

Below you’ll find the posts at Financial Advice Zone from the investing category.We highly recommend you read each of them if you’re serious about making money in learning more about investing

Trading Strategies – Moving Averages, Elliott Wave, Candlestick Analysis

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There are various types of trading strategies and most traders have there own unique style. Most trading strategies use some combination of technical analysis. You can use moving averages, Elliott Waves, candlestick analysis, use trend trading to find support and resistance on a chart. It’s important to understand these technical signals to be able to [...]

Retirement – How Would You Invest $10,000

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The investment industry is full of literature that speaks in generalities and that doesn’t do a whole lot of good for those who are looking for specific, actionable advice. There are a few reasons why that advice is missing. First, specific trading advice offered without knowing the individual is seen as taboo for investing professionals [...]

Trading Options – Benefits and Risks

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Options trading is a type of trading that extends you unprecedented leverage and you are trading options on a stock instead of the underling stock itself. You do not need to own the stock to trade its options. Just as you can go long or short a stock there are two types of options a [...]

Retirement Planning – Your Age Matters

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For some, retirement is within reach. There’s light at the end of your career’s tunnel and you can’t be happier. Traveling, walks on the beach, greeter at Walmart, whatever you want to do, your time is yours to do with what you please. Maybe you’re just getting started. You’re just out of college or a [...]

Paper Trading – Learning to Day Trade

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This is for anyone out there that is new to the markets, has never traded for themselves before or has little experience and wants to learn. If you are contemplating getting into the market for whatever reason, it’s down off its high, or you think it looks as if all the bad news is priced [...]

Five Essential Components of a High Performing Retirement Portfolio

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Retirement planning is a lot like politics. Not only does everybody have an opinion but they may also believe that everybody else’s opinion is either flat-out wrong or based on ulterior, often unscrupulous, motives. There may be a reason for these heated debates and that reason may have a very objective and logical source and [...]

Corporate Bonds – Investing, Risk, Ratings

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Suppose your business needs an influx of capital. You can borrow the funds or you can issue shares of stock. The third alternative, which many companies implement, is to issue corporate bonds. For investors looking to start investing in corporate bonds there are many options. It is important to understand how corporate bonds function. Some [...]