If you’re looking for an online stock trading company you have your work cut out for you. There are more than a few to choose from. Let’s look at a couple of them. I’ve used sharebuilder.com so let’s start with them. I signed up for their free basic account which is a good place to [...]

Whereas stocks give investors part ownership of a company, bonds are loans made by investors to corporations or governments. Rather than benefiting from company profits the way that stock holders do, bond holders receive a fixed rate of return – a percentage of the bond’s original offering price. The return is called the ‘coupon rate’. [...]

Just about everybody who starts online foreign exchange trading is hoping to make big money. There are perhaps a few people who do it just for fun, but if they are at all successful they will soon start to think about turning that success into a money maker that could eventually change their lives. However, [...]