Investing in the stock market can be a great way to enhance the value of your personal net worth. If you are unlucky or just not a very good investor, you can also lose money. Professional and casual investors alike need to have a way to measure the performance of their portfolio and assess the risk to reward ratio. Knowing your Return on Investment (ROI) is one way to measure the performance of your investments. (more…)

In order to execute successful trades in the stock market, it is important to have a basic understanding of the types of stock available. The sector and size of a company can be used to categorize its stock. Here are some of the various categories.

The large, mid, and small caps are used to categorize stock by the total value of its outstanding shares. This value is found by multiplying the market value of its stock by the number of outstanding shares. (more…)