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Sometimes, the stock market can seem impossibly complicated. With all the derivatives and algorithms and acronyms, Wall Street almost seems like an alien environment sometimes. However, at the end of the day, every time a trader buys or sells shares of a stock, he or she is essentially just...

Trading is a learned behavior that takes smarts, discipline, and a whole lot of patience. But novice traders often jump in unprepared and without an action plan. They can quickly find themselves in the “overtrading” abyss—a place they could have avoided by taking the time to...

The rise in popularity of online shopping has created a surge in demand for package delivery services like United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) and DHL. However, while the influx of new business may appear to be a positive, the logistics of delivering such a high volume of packages...

Many things attract investors to the stock market, but perhaps the most compelling is the idea of being able to trade for a living. I know that’s what was on my mind when I bought my first stock back in 1985—being my own boss, setting my own hours, and relying on my own wits to make a...

In the final moments of the iconic movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko confronts his former protégé Bud Fox after discovering the wannabe set him up to lose millions to a hedge fund rival in a corporate buyout. Against the backdrop of New York's Central Park, Gekko verbally and...

If you spend more time trading every day, do you make more money or just lose more time? That may be the question many traders ask themselves as they spend hour after hour staring at a computer screen. At first, you may have thought that you could spend a couple of hours a day and make some...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is stepping into the workplace networking arena to face up against heavyweights like Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) by introducing a work-appropriate social media site that focuses on collaboration. The new...

According to Flurry Analytics, the percentage of paid apps on the App Store fell from 20 percent in 2011 to 10 percent in 2013. That’s a 10 percent drop in two years, and the trend is likely to continue. In general, Flurry said, people seemed to want free content even if it meant putting up...