Articles by WALL STREET

A key concept for new investors to grasp is the importance of choosing a basket of stocks and watching them like a hawk every single trading day. In this article we’ll go over a couple of methods to monitor stocks with a custom watch list and work with market data. As usual we prefer free versus paid in almost every circumstance, so all of these methods are free or cheap, and relatively easy to setup.

A common question: “I woke up this morning to find stock XYZ corp. halted pending news. Now what?”

While a halted stock is normally the result of some pending news or other action that is expected to move its price, this is not always the case. Here is a complete list of the most common halt codes and their meaning.

The good news about trading in the days of iPads and wifi internet, is the sheer number of killer options you have when choosing an online broker. These days with so many players in the game we’ve come to expect a lot from our brokerage services.  

With so many choices how do you know which online broker is the best for you?

So before you slap all your hard earned money into the markets all willy nilly, you need to start thinking about what you hope to get out of this, and more importantly, what types of risk you are willing to take on to get there.

What type of trader or investor are you? Here are the main strategies or styles most of us deploy.

Another simple yet key concept I was lucky to learn early was to keep a detailed trading journal. This is not only important for learning from your mistakes and triumphs, but it is a good habit to get into for keeping you sane at tax time.

There are two techniques I use for keeping a trade journal and both are really simple and effective.

If you want to be a Jedi master, you’re going to need a light saber. Prior to the online trading revolution of the late 90’s most traders needed to fork out mega cash to get even a basic data feed, often over a slow dial-up modem. You can be thankful those days are behind us.

Here is a list of the best stock market websites to keep you current and help hone your trading and investing skills.

This article kicks off the Beginner’s Guide to Online Trading, a series of articles for, you guessed it, the trading n00bs out there. In the series I’ll describe my trading methods, the best tools, and real strategies for reducing risk.

Since we get asked novice trader questions daily in the chat and forums, I thought it would be useful to get a beginner’s guide built for easy reference. Hit the jump to get started.