Investing

February 19, 2021When comparing investments in your portfolio, you may be concerned primarily with the returns a particular security generates over time. Rolling returns measure average annualized returns over a specific time period and they can be helpful for gauging an investment’s… read more…

February 19, 2021Bonds can be useful for adding a conservative component to an investment portfolio to balance out stocks or other high-risk securities. Debentures are a specific type of bond that government entities or corporations can use to raise capital. While all… read more…

February 18, 2021An employer-sponsored 401(k) plan may be an important part of your financial plan for retirement. Managing those investments wisely means keeping an eye on market movements. When a bear market sets in, you may be tempted to make a flight… read more…

February 16, 2021The disconnect between a stock’s share price and the company’s performance were writ large during the GameStop (GME) stock price surge at the end of January 2021. The combination of irrational exuberance and a concerted buy effort promoted on the… read more…

February 9, 2021TradeZero is one of an expanding number of trading platforms oriented around fast-action day trading. Unlike many of its competitors, this platform is built for the professionals. That isn’t a drawback, as day trading is a high-risk practice poorly suited… read more…

February 9, 2021Lime Financial, formerly known as Score Priority, focuses its tools and features on active traders who are looking for real-time data, routing choices and sophisticated trading software. But at the time of the review, SmartAsset found that this trading platform offers… read more…

February 9, 2021NinjaTrader is one of the older online investing platforms on the market. Its primary feature is a truly vast degree of customization, allowing users to create bespoke charts and swap plugins to create just the right data environment for their… read more…

February 9, 2021Zacks Trade offers a full service trading platform in a marketplace increasingly crowded by similar products. It has a few areas in which it stands out compared to other top-tier platforms, such as deep fundamental analysis and a simplified web-based… read more…

February 9, 2021The Securities and Exchange Commission oversees and regulations certain entities that provide financial and investment advice or management services. As part of those regulations, the SEC requires the filing of specific forms that include detailed information about business operations. Form… read more…

February 8, 2021When trading stocks and other securities, it can be helpful to use technical indicators to assess volatility. Average true range, or ATR, is one such indicator that’s often used to track securities’ price movements over defined time periods. Though it… read more…

February 5, 2021CenterPoint Securities is for the professionals, and they mean it. This trading platform specializes in day trading and in helping investors short stocks and options. If you do this for a living and have a vast amount of money backing up… read more…

February 3, 2021For sophisticated investors, TD Ameritrade offers thinkorswim, a powerful set of investment tools oriented specifically at investors who make frequent or complex trades. If you aren’t looking for a semi-professional toolkit, with all of the complexity that entails, then you… read more…

February 3, 2021Your brokerage should offer easy-yet-sophisticated tools to manage your money and, ideally, nothing else. It certainly should not remind you of a used car dealership or the desperate hustle of some personal trainers at the gym. A trading platform known… read more…

February 3, 2021Interactive Brokers is a full-featured investment platform that has traditionally been built for professional and institutional investors. Although in the past two years it has introduced a Lite brand aimed at the retail investment crowd, the truth is that this… read more…

January 26, 2021There is not a good reason to use ChoiceTrade. This low-cost, feature-limited trading platform has been in business since 2000 and offers inexpensive options and stock trading. Unfortunately, for the modern trading world, that’s just not good enough anymore. Investors can get… read more…

January 23, 2021Investors who use TradeStation get a full-feature trading platform built with active and high-volume users in mind. It is not for newcomers or long-term, buy-and-hold investors. But if you are an experienced investor who executes frequent trades or complex trades… read more…

January 23, 2021Israel-based eToro is cryptocurrency trading platform. Unlike traditional investment platforms, it does not offer access to any form of standard financial products or assets. You cannot trade stocks, bonds, funds or options. Although investors outside of the U.S. can use… read more…

January 23, 2021There’s a reason you may not have heard of SpeedTrader. This is a niche product in a niche market. SpeedTrader is an investment platform for day traders. This product is built for professionals. Its main features, such as its ability to… read more…

January 23, 2021M1 Finance strikes a balance between the completely hands-off approach of a robo-advisor and the technical complexity of a full-service investment firm. It allows investors to build an investment portfolio based on stocks, funds and professionally managed portfolios that they… read more…

January 23, 2021Do not get paid to trade. Free money schemes are never your friend. In finance, as with most walks of life, the best tools are generally boring and don’t need such incentives to try a product. SogoTrade is no different. There… read more…

January 23, 2021If you bank with Wells Fargo and keep a low-activity portfolio, WellsTrade might be a useful platform on which to trade stocks and other securities. Current clients can use the trading screen to see all of their finances, banking and investments… read more…

January 22, 2021By now most mainstream trading platforms are free. Despite advertising itself as “low cost stock and options trading,” Lightspeed still charges trading commissions. At the same time it offers a set of highly specific tools that can benefit extremely active… read more…

January 22, 2021Firstrade is an online trading platform that offers two portals, its primary brand, Firstrade, and a secondary brand called Firstrade Navigator. They are competitively priced, offer many types of securities, including mutual funds, give users the ability to engage in sophisticated… read more…

January 14, 2021Webull is an online trading platform that allows you to trade and invest commission-free. It bills itself as primarily organized around app-based trading, although as we will note below, Webull’s more sophisticated tools make it easier to use through the… read more…

January 14, 2021Betterment has established itself as one of the most well-known standalone robo-advisors on the market. At the same time, a brokerage giant backs Fidelity Go. While both platforms come from very different beginnings, they share many similarities, such as how… read more…