It’s not uncommon during earnings season to see our growth stocks move 20% in a day. Expectations are high for 20% plus earnings growth, but more importantly, we want to hear optimism from management that the growth will continue. If either of these wobbles, we could be down big, or up big. That’s how earnings […]
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Before we dive in, let’s talk about what an ETF is and why we might want one in the first place. An ETF, like a mutual fund, is a basket of securities. S&P 500 ETFs like the State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is a popular ETF choice. We’ll talk about why later, but
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It’s Thanksgiving week. Christmas and New Years are right around the corner. In a little over a month it will be 2026. Can you believe it? Where did 2025 go? In between all the shopping and celebrating, now is a good time to think about our finances. Yay! It’s Really Not That Hard Most people
I read recently that many younger folks view sports betting and crypto currency as ways to build wealth. They are disillusioned with the stock market. And this morning I check in on the wallstreetbets reddit site and see. or even better Imagine being up nearly a half million dollars in a short amount of time.
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This is exactly what I asked myself this morning. While perusing my IRA account, I came across a lot of red next to my Caterpillar covered call. Take a look. Red is usually bad. There’s a lot here, so let’s break it down. At some point in the past (we’ll get to that in a
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So what exactly is a stock split? It’s pretty simple. A company reduces the price of its stock, while simultaneously increasing the number of shares that each shareholder holds. Pizza Lots of experts like to use the pizza example. The pizza represents the company. Pre-stock-split, I have a pizza cut into 4 large slices. Each
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Back in March, I wrote a post where I decided to back up my love for the S&P 500 with real money. You can read the post here. I did this for 3 reasons: That said, investing in equities is scary. Everyone has their own story but mine is pretty simple. My Story I have
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After yesterday’s post on how to begin using our 401k, I started to think more about choosing investments. For many of us, the first question when choosing an investment is “is it safe?“ What Does Safe Mean to You? I’m serious. Safe can mean different things to different people and it can mean different things
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Congratulations! You have a new job. At some point early on at our new company, we’re invited to a new hire orientation session where one of the key topics is benefits. One of the best benefits that is often not given enough focus in these sessions is the 401k plan. Today we’ll go through the
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I’ll ruin the surprise and tell you right now that they’re not. As much as we’ve seen Nvidia’s price sky-rocket in the past few years, I can’t tell you if it will be worth more next week than today. Some folks were pretty happy with airline stocks. And then 9/11 happened. We really don’t know.
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