This one is another interesting and lucrative investment strategy. The so-called dividend aristocrats are a group of stocks from the S&P 500 index, that have increased the dividends they pay to shareholders for at least 25 consecutive years. Sounds good, isn’t it? Not only these companies have paid dividends for a quarter of a century,…
ETFs are really popular financial instruments nowadays. But what is an ETF and what’s the big deal about investing in such? ETF is an abbreviation of Exchange Traded Funds and actually is an investment company, that collects money by selling shares to the broad public and invests the collected money in different assets like shares…
What Are Dow Jones Futures? Futures are derivative instruments, which means that their value derives from the value of another financial instrument. In this case, the value of a Dow Jones Future contract derives from the value of The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. In very simple words, a future contract is a negotiated deal…
If you can’t beat the market – follow it! This is a popular maxim, briefly describing that it’s not so easy to beat the market, but it’s really easy to follow it. As you may know, “The Market” here means the overall performance of all traded shares which is measured by stock indexes, like the…
Stock markets are one of the greatest inventions of our capitalistic world. They work so simply and at the same time, nobody can predict them. You trade financial instruments there, but at the same time, it’s more of a social ecosystem than you can imagine. Its moves are driven by almost anything that happens to…