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Trading in Futures Markets
Futures markets are exchanges where futures contracts and options on futures contracts are traded. Exchanges may trade commodities, financial derivati...
Equity Securities Overview
Equity securities are shares of stock that represent a proportional share of ownership in a company's net assets and profits. However, being a share...
Foreign Exchange Trading
Occasionally, changes in regulation open doors that give investors entirely new ways to make money. That is certainly the case with the much-hyped F...
Fixed Income Investing: A Stable Source of Income
Fixed income investments refer to any investment that has a fixed and stable return. This contrasts with equity investments which float in valu...
Mutual Fund Overview
This article is an overview of Mutual Funds, what they are, what they invest in, types of Mutual Funds and things to look for before investing in Mu...
Stock Investments
What is a stock investment? Simply defined, a share of stock represents a share of ownership in a publicly-traded company. According to the Inv...
What Is a Bond?
A bond is a debt instrument--basically an IOU--where an investor is loaning money to the US government, a state, a municipality, or a corporation fo...
Fixed Annuities – An Overview
Over the last two years, many investors have been looking for shelter from the storm that has been created on Wall Street. One financial product tha...
Best Money Market Funds
A money market fund is a mutual fund style of investing. Operators of money market funds invest in short-term debt instruments, such as commercial...