Stock Market

Stock Market

29
Sep

Google – The Best Business in the World?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel Overview Google is the search engine of the world and needs very little introduction. There’s an extremely good chance that if you are reading this article...
27
Sep

Google Services

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel Overview Google Services is the company’s current cash cow and only profitable segment. This segment comprises the advertising businesses: Search, Youtube, the Google Network business; as...
09
Sep

ETFs and Index Funds

By Soham Aher. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel.  Introduction An ETF is made up of a portfolio of diversified investments, such as stocks, commodities, bonds, and other securities. We refer to these assets as holdings....
31
Aug

Embecta – A Spin-off Play

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Aniket Bose and Swastik Patel.  Overview On April 1st of 2022, Becton, Dickinson and Company (one of the world’s largest medical technology companies) completed its spin-off of its diabetes care business,...
31
Jul

The Tale of Micron and the DRAM Industry

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel.  Overview Micron is a semiconductor company founded in 1978, and is based in the United States. The company focuses on manufacturing DRAM and NAND products. It has a market...
19
Jul

Alibaba: An Even Better Buy Than Before

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel.  Overview Alibaba is the largest retail commerce business in the world by Gross Merchandise Value and is the third largest Chinese company, behind only Tencent and Moutai. Almost exactly...
10
Jul

Warner Brothers Discovery – Value Yet to be Discovered

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Swastik Patel  Overview In April of 2022, AT&T marked the end of its 4 year relationship with WarnerMedia. The telecommunications giant had acquired the media company for over 85 Billion dollars...
02
Jul

Price to Earnings Ratio

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Swastik Patel  Overview Regardless of whether you have knowledge about stocks, you may have heard of the price-to-earnings ratio. It is one of the most common valuation metrics used to evaluate the...
20
Mar

Meta – a Tech Giant in Crisis?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview In October of last year, Facebook rebranded to Meta. This was done to draw attention to the company’s ongoing investments into the metaverse and to also take attention...
15
Mar

The NASDAQ is in a Bear Market – Now What?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The Nasdaq has just closed at $13,301 – marking a 21% drawdown from its peak and signifying the start of a bear market. On the other hand, the...
06
Nov

When Should You Buy A Stock?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Assuming you’ve found a company that you believe to be fundamentally good and want to invest in, the next question you’re likely to ask yourself is when to...
17
Oct

Facebook – a Safe Value Proposition

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Facebook needs no introduction, it is the largest social media company in the world, owning 4 of the 5 most popular social media platforms worldwide. As of 10/16/21,...
03
Oct

Key Lessons From The Market Wizards

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The Market Wizards is a classic trading book written by Jack D. Schwager and published back in 1989. It features a series of interviews that takes you through...
08
Sep

How Easy is it to Get Rich from the Stock Market?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Getting rich. It’s the goal of many, if not most people in the world. After all, money can solve a lot of problems. In pursuit of this goal,...
08
Sep

Selling Cash Secured Puts

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Have you ever wanted to own stock but it was too overpriced for you to buy it? You wait weeks or even months, and the price fails to...
06
Sep

Hedging – Why and How?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Hedging is a strategy employed by investors and traders in order to limit the risks of existing positions. In a sense, it is an insurance policy against adverse...
29
Aug

Market Sentiment – Why the Market Always Moves Against You

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview It is a pretty well-known fact that around 80% of retail traders either lose or break even in the market. But why does this happen, and how can...
29
Aug

What is the VIX?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview VIX, which stands for the CBOE’s Volatility Index, is a real-time index that measures the volatility of the market. Often referred to as the fear index, it was...
27
Aug

Amazon – Still So Much More To Grow

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview What was once a small online book retailer has since evolved into the 5th largest company in the world with a market cap of  $1.68 Trillion. The company...
27
Aug

Basic Candlestick Patterns

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Candlesticks are a powerful tool used to track the price movements of a stock. In a previous article, we covered the basics of how to read candlestick charts....
27
Aug

The Moving Average Crossover – A Simple Strategy

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The moving average crossover is a powerful strategy that can be used to follow trends in the market. It usually consists of two moving averages, one on the...
22
Aug

How to Create the Perfect Stock Portfolio

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Behind an incredible stock portfolio lies hours and days worth of research and homework. If you’re willing to put in the work, the profits are incredibly worth it in...
21
Aug

The Longest Bull Market in History

By Aidan Hackett. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview From the 9th of March 2009 to the 20th of February, the US stock market grew almost 4 times – 380%. By pure length of time, this is the...
17
Aug

How to Sell Options

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview There are 2 types of options contracts: calls and puts. Most options traders trade long calls or puts. But where do they buy the calls or puts from? The...
09
Aug

Introduction to Moving Averages

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The moving average is a popular indicator used to analyze the price movements of a particular stock or equity. It aggregates past prices in order to define trends....
07
Aug

Introduction to Risk Management

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview You’ve probably heard the cliche “don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” and while it is a cliche, it isn’t wrong. No matter how sure you are...
07
Aug

Can You Time the Market?

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Since 1926, the S&P 500 has had an average annual return of 10 to 11%. That means that $1,000 dollars invested into the S&P 500 in 1926, would...
31
Jul

Alibaba: A Risky Value Proposition

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Alibaba is the largest retail commerce business in the world by Gross Merchandise Value,  the second largest Chinese company, and has a market cap of 570 Billion USD...
30
Jul

McDonalds: The King of Fast Food

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview McDonalds is a fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1955. Since then, it has grown to be the world’s largest fast-food restaurant chain and as of July 31st, 2021,...
24
Jul

Introduction to Crashes and Bear Markets

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview You’ve likely heard of the 2020 stock market crash, the 2007-08 financial crisis, and the DotCom bubble. During these events, the S&P 500 index dropped 36%, 57.7%, and...
24
Jul

Peter Lynch’s 6 Stock Categories

By Ee Hsin Kok. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Stock categories are a great way for us to divide our investment portfolios and assess how diversified and/or volatile we can expect our portfolios to be. Peter Lynch,...
18
Jul

Types of Stock Market Indicators

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Market indicators are quantitative and are used to explore stocks or other financial index data in an attempt to display moves in the market. Market indicators are also a...
08
Jul

Introduction to Activist Investing

By Michael Feng. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview While people are focused on trading stocks and turning a profit, they often ignore the key concept of investing: owning a stake in a company. However, it is reasonable...
30
Jun

The 2011 Debt Ceiling Crisis

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The term “debt ceiling” depicts the maximum amount of money that the U.S can borrow, and it was created under the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917. In case...
27
Jun

Black Monday the 2nd: 1987 Crash

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Black Monday occurred on October 19, 1987, where financial markets all over the world crashed immensely, with the U.S stock market specifically falling more than 20% on that day....
27
Jun

The 2010 Flash Crash

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The 2010 Flash Crash occurred on May 6, 2010 which caused many major stocks and indexes such as Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and others to decline drastically...
22
Jun

Dot-com Bubble

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview The dot-com bubble of 2000 was a financial crisis led by the crash of internet company stocks. It was a bubble created by pure speculation of venture capitalists and...
18
Jun

Staying Smart about Stocks

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview It is important to know that a low P/E ratio is generally better than a high P/E ratio before investing in the stock market. The P/E ratio shows that...
18
Jun

Swing vs. Day Trading

By Arjun Chandrasekar. What’s the difference between swing and day trading? Well, day traders have multiple positions which they open and close through the day. Swing traders make trades that last longer times: days, weeks, months, or...
18
Jun

What is a Stock Market Index?

By Arjun Chandrasekar. In simple terms, a stock market index shows the overall feeling of how an economy is progressing. An index, such as S&P 500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ, is a composite, representative portfolio of investment...
18
Jun

Types of Portfolios

By Tarun Gopinath. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview A portfolio is a collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash, and cash equivalents, including closed-end funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs). A portfolio may also contain...
18
Jun

Top Brokers

By Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Brokers are the “middle man” or the intermediary between an investor and their trading. They can be a company with an online trading platform in which investors may have to pay commission for...
18
Jun

Variations of Stock Trading

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Essentially stock trading involves the buying and selling of stocks frequently in an attempt to time the market at the right time. The main goal of stock traders is...
18
Jun

The Seasonal Investing Strategy

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. What is the Seasonal Investing Strategy? The seasonal investing strategy acts as a guide for investors to bet on various stocks and sectors based on their past performance during the...
18
Jun

Undervalued vs. Overvalued Stocks

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Undervalued Stocks The term “undervalued stock” is referring to a stock that’s selling price is significantly below what is assumed to be its value. For example, there is a stock...
18
Jun

Stop-loss Orders vs. Stop-Limit Orders

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. What are Stop-loss Orders? A stop-loss order is an order that is placed with a broker with the intent to either buy or sell a certain stock once that stock...
17
Jun

Stock Screeners Overview

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. What is a Stock Screener? A stock screener is a set of tools for investors that allows them to sort through the myriad of stocks available to them very quickly...
17
Jun

Fractional Shares

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview A fractional share is when you own less than one whole share of a company. Fractional shares allow investors to purchase stocks based on the amount the investor is...
17
Jun

Types of Trade Orders

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Introduction Stock trade orders primarily refer to the different types of orders that can be fulfilled or placed on trading exchanges for financial assets, like stocks or even future contracts....
17
Jun

Spoofing Stocks

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview “Spoofing” is a type of scam in which criminals attempt to attain someone else’s personal information while pretending to be a legitimate business, neighbor, firm, or any other innocent...