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Free Stock Trades
by stock on May.16, 2009, under Stock Trades
Free stock trades: Like momma said, you better shop around
Summary by Matt Krantz
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Q: I read several online brokers are starting to offer commission-free trades. Sure trade stunned the Street with $7.95 trades. Brown Co took it further with $5 trades. Unlike the large online discount brokers, which charge $10 or more for trades, there’s a rising number of companies offering trades at no cost. Small upstart companies, like Zecco.com, to giant banking institutions such as Bank of America are offering free stock trades. Zecco.com, for instance, gives investors 10 free trades a day and up to 40 a month.
1. Low returns on uninvested cash.
Unlike some mainstream online brokerages that will “sweep” idle cash in your account into a money market fund, some of the free offers pay low interest rates on your cash.
Zecco.com, for instance, pays 1% a year on cash in your account.
It pays 3.25% on cash balances up to $99,999. Some investors could actually be worse off with Zecco.com, even if trades are free. Compare that with Schwab, which charges at least $12.95 a trade but pays 4.5% on cash sitting in your account. Just because you’re paying more for trades with E-Trade and TD Ameritrade, doesn’t mean you’re getting good interest rates. E-Trade and TD Ameritrade are worse in some respects than Zecco.
E-Trade pays an embarrassing 0.5% return on account balances less than $50,000 in its sweep account.
2. Big deposit requirements.
To qualify for free stock trades, you must keep $25,000 in checking, savings or other FDIC-insured deposit accounts, such as a certificate of deposit. If you use Zecco, keep the account cash balance small. It offers up to 50 free trades a year to anyone with assets at the bank of $250,000. That’s an interesting offer if you qualify.
TradeKing, for instance, offers a robust options trading platform and charges just $4.95 per stock trade. Charles Schwab, while pricey at $12.95 a trade, provides solid interest on uninvested cash and solid online research. Scottrade is a good compromise with $7 trades and decent cash management.
Free Stock Trading
by stock on May.02, 2009, under Stock Trades
FREE Stock Trading: Free Websites to Help Analyze Stocks
Modified free stock trading articles from July Wirawan
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The internet is a very useful source of information to analyze stocks. Many websites make available a great deal of data about companies for free. The information is in fact too much and confusing enough to choose which source is a good one. For beginners, you can start with the following websites. These are all free stock trading analyze sites and should give you pretty much all the skeleton information to help you do better analysis on your stocks.
1. finance.Google (.com). What I like about Google finance is:
- Snapshot of a company’s historical stock price (on first page). You just drag the bar at the bottom of the chart to the left to see the historical chart. It is very easy and fast. You can also see right on the chart some corporate events, such as dividend payment or stock split.
- Discussion forum (on first page). This is not meant to confuse you as what they say may contradict each other, but rather to give you a feel of what people think about a particular company.
2. moneycentral.msn (.com). What I like about this free stock trading analyze site is:
- Rating. You just need to type in the ticker symbol, and a rating will pop up. The rating is a scale between 0 and 10 with 10 being the best. The rating shows the likelihood of a stock to outperform or underperform the market in the next six months.
- Institutional ownership. The higher the number, the better as it shows the degree of interest by big institutional investors on a particular stock.
- Research wizard. It shows you the highlights of a company’s fundamental, historical price performance versus its industry, valuation and stock price target in the next 12 months, and comparison with any other company in terms of financial health, price performance, etc.
- Earnings estimates and more importantly earnings trend. The trend shows you how the analysts’ earnings estimates have changed in the last 90 days and thus tell you whether a company is getting in or out of favor.
- Financials. Here you can find the last five years and last five quarters of balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow numbers.
3. form4oracle (.com). This free stock trading analyze website is very informative if you look for the history of insider trading on a particular company. All kinds of insider activities such as purchases, sales, option exercises, grants are presented chronologically.
4. briefing (.com). A lot of information on this free stock trading analyze site is available to its subscribers for some fees. But some other information is provided for free. The free information mostly focuses on companies’ past earnings announcements, and analysts’ recommendations, which I still find very useful and quite complete compared to the other websites. For big and highly liquid companies, this information could go as far back as ten years.
5. stockcharts (.com) Here you can retrieve a chart in various different forms (such as line, bar, candlestick), and various different time frames (such as year-to-date, one-month, one-year, three-years, or any time frame you specify). You can also add on some technical indicators such as moving average, MACD, RSI, ADX, and many other indicators.
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Stock Trades
by stock on Mar.19, 2009, under Stock Trades
Learning the Basics of Stock trades
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The stock trades are a complicated game. In order for you to succeed in this business, learning the basics of the trade would be an important factor for your financial growth.
Before risking your money with the stock trades, you should be able to recognize the factors vital in choosing which company to invest in. Here are the basics in learning some facts about the company:
1) Revenue. This refers to the amount of money the company makes. Although some companies that are still in the early development stage have no revenues to offer, many of the companies that have been in the market for years make use of the revenues to cover some losses and other costs.
2) Earnings. This refers to the money the company makes. Aside from revenues, the earnings are the money that would not be used in covering expenses. These are the extra money the company makes. Companies with large earning have an advantage in the stock trades because investors examine the earnings made by the company they are about to buy stocks on.
3) Debt. This refers to the money the company owes in many ways. Because the company is in debt, the money they have is for paying up for the debit alone. Buying stocks from these companies would be risky because of the instability of the company.
4) Property. This refers to all the assets (money, stocks, and all businesses they own) of the company. Knowing these assets could give you an understanding of the company’s position in the industry. If the companies have significant properties in their hands, you could safely trust their background and immediately buy some of their stocks.
5) Financial responsibility. This refers to the account of the companies that they need to pay out. Meaning, if the value of their financial obligations are low, the company is not in danger of becoming in debt. Examining the company’s liabilities and comparing it with its assets could help in determining if you are ready to buy stocks from them. Make sure that the assets of the companies are always higher than the financial responsibilities they need to make.
It’s never safe to gamble your money away on some company you don’t even know. The basic of the stock trades lie on the companies’ background. Make sure you research to ensure your money is in the right hands.
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