Dividend investors often set minimum requirements for an “acceptable initial dividend yield and/or dividend growth rate when they are considering buying a dividend stock.

Thus one investor might say, “I won’t invest in a dividend stock with a starting yield less than 3%. Another might say, “I want a minimum 10% per year dividend increase.

You will often see articles on business news sites offering brief snippets of what Buffett or other popular managers have been buying. Of course, these articles won't give you the details you're looking for if you're trying to dig deeper in order to understand more about the purchases and sales. Fortunately, you can do it yourself quite easily.

For those investors who recognize that professional money managers rarely beat the index, investing in passive funds (that basically spread the pooled investments across the index) makes a lot of sense. Investing in mutual funds that track the index used to be the best way to perform this task, but several years ago, ETFs were born, and offer a cheaper way (i.e.

When stocks already look cheap and keep getting cheaper, it pays to have a gameplan to help mitigate losses and stretch your capital. This article looks at various options strategies, dividend & balance sheet requirements and other tools geared towards value investing.

Quotes excerpted from an article entitled “Banking With Tisch” first published on October 6, 1986 in James Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.

When calculating a company's P/E or projecting a company's earnings power, rather than using a company's current earnings, value investors prefer to use average earnings from several years past. In a free market, companies with undifferentiated products will tend to see their earnings naturally revert to the mean.

Ian's advice is worth its weight in gold - no BS, no catch, no tricks... just solid advice for those that are serious about learning how to invest. If you're afraid of investing in this crazy market and don't want to lose your shirt, this is worth reading.

The stock market is dynamic and always changing - so it shouldn't be boring once their interest is piqued at an early age. Who knows one day your kid could grow up to be a hedge fund manager worth billions!

Are you a born trader? I'm not.

Recently I came to the realization that I have two distinct personalities. There is 'Nick' and there is 'Trader Nick'. I had to create this second personality to do my trading.

Some helpful tips on when you should sell an investment

Successful traders have rock solid discipline. They plan every one of their trades, then they simply their trade their plans.

Whitney Tilson and John Heins discuss 9 value oriented methods for finding stock investment opportunities.

Following up on previous articles about tax strategy and holding periods, here is another nifty trick to use to save taxes using the Magic Formula Investing strategy.

This isn't some self-help rubbish list that's meant to inspire. This is a down and dirty, harsh and truthful list of tips that will make you a better forex trader.