Private Investment Funds For Wealthy Individuals: Hedge Funds use pooled capital from accredited investors in order to generate an active return. Hedge fund managers can employ a handful of different strategies with the goal of achieving high returns. The term “hedge fund” can be confusing because Hedging is actually the practice of attempting to reduce […]

When Publicly Traded Companies Report Quarterly Earnings: Earnings Season is a period of time when the majority of publicly traded companies release their earnings reports. Generally speaking, each earnings season begins about 1-2 weeks after the end of each quarter. So companies will typically release their reports in early-mid January, April, July, and October. There […]

A Bear Market is characterized by securities prices falling, anticipation of losses, and widespread pessimism. The typical causes of such pessimism is a weak or slowing economy, high unemployment rate, limited disposable income, reduced business profits, and/or tax rate changes. Overall, there is a major drop in investor confidence for one reason or another. A […]

The Fundamentals of Options Trading: Options are a type of derivative security, meaning their price is directly linked to the price of an underlying security (typically a stock or index). In options trading, there are two basic types of contracts known as Calls and Puts. Calls increase in value as the price of the underlying […]