Plus a pre-filled FinViz screener — With market volatility picking up, you may be looking for a safe place to invest and wait out a potential recession. For some investors, large-cap stocks offer an attractive mix of stability and growth. Today we’re going to cover four important questions about finding the best large cap stocks: What…

A guide to finding your investing match — In my article, “How to Make Money in Stocks,” I covered 17 different investment strategies. Now, let’s focus on the question: What type of investment strategy is the best fit for you. Most of the investment styles were grouped into one of two big categories: Fundamental analysis or technical analysis. …

A simple guide to understanding two types of growth stocks — In general, growth stocks are companies that are expected to have unusually high growth in their future sales and/or earnings. Investors who buy growth stocks often believe the company will deliver strong financial results far into the future as it finds an ever-expanding market for its products. Based on my…

A simple guide to understanding undervalued stocks — What exactly is a value stock? “Value stocks” describes an investing strategy that looks for companies currently trading below what they’re really worth. In other words, value investing tries to buy good stocks on the cheap. There’s no strict definition of what makes a company a value stock, and technically…

The best brokers, order types, and more… — When it comes to actually placing a trade, new investors often bump up against a few common questions: Which is the best brokerage for stock investing? When can I place stock trades? What type of account should I trade it? What are the different order types? Let’s go through each…

How factor investing leads to market-crushing profits — I’ll never forget when I stumbled across the chart below. After reading it, I said: “Why aren’t more people talking about this?” This chart contains two important insights that forever changed the way I invest in stocks. Let me break down exactly what I saw and why it had such…

Find stocks with at least two winning criteria — If you analyze long-term winning stock picks, you’ll find the same attributes come up again and again. Outsized profits come from companies that are: Profitable and growing Not burdened by excessive debt Relatively stable volatility Modestly undervalued Paying a healthy, growing, and sustainable dividend (only for dividend-paying stocks) These are…

3 big rules for small-cap investing — Are you afraid of small cap stocks? Many investors view small cap stocks as unproven or unstable companies that are too risky to invest in. Small cap stocks are not the same as penny stocks or OTC / pink sheet stocks. In fact, investors are often surprised to learn that…

Your seven-point checklist for buying dividend stocks — How can you find the best dividend stocks? Research has shown that when looking for the top high-dividend stocks to buy, there are two major questions to ask: Is this a good dividend-paying stock? Ignoring the dividend for a moment, is this a good company to buy? In my experience…