Education Articles
More people than ever are taking control of their finances and exploring the world of investing. But, the stock market can be a tricky and daunting thing to navigate if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Thankfully – we’ve got you covered. Our education section provides in-depth guides and articles across a range of topics to help you become a pro in no time.
Financial Glossary
List of Education Articles
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What is an Analyst Rating?
An analyst rating is a valuation asigned to a company share price by a professional stock analyst. Buy, Hold, and Sell are common analyst ratings.
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What is a 52-Week High/Low?
The 52-week high/low is the highest/lowest price a stock, or alternative security has traded during the prior year. These technical indicators have...
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How to read a Company’s Balance Sheet
A company’s balance sheet is one of the most critical tools at an investor’s disposal when it comes to stock picking, but how do you read it?
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What is P/E ratio?
P/E or Price-to-Earnings Ratio is calculated by taking the price of a stock and dividing this by the earnings per share.
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What is a Moving Average?
A moving average is a technical indicator that combines price points of an instrument over a specified time period.
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What is the Stock Market?
The stock market is where buyers and sellers meet to trade shares and other financial securities. It consists of global stock exchanges and OTC...
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What is Dividend Investing?
Dividend investing is a method of purchasing stocks that pay dividends, meaning investors receive a regular income stream from their investment...
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What is Short Selling?
Short selling is a practice whereby an investor borrows a security and sells it on the open market, while planning to buy it back later for less...
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What is Direct Market Access?
Direct market access is the ability to deal directly in the market by placing orders onto the exchange or by dealing directly with a telephone broker.
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What is Forex?
Forex is short for Foreign Currency and Exchange. It refers to currency trading, where traders speculate on potential price changes in currency pairs.
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What is Spread Betting?
Spread betting is a derivative product which is used to speculate on financial markets, including forex, indices, commodities or shares.
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What is Stock Market Inflation?
It’s important to factor inflation into stock market investing. In fact, as you’ll see, failure to take rising prices into account can add serious...
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What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
The SEC is an independent government agency designed to regulate the US capital markets and protect investors.
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What is a FAANG company?
FAANG is an acronym used to describe five prominent and well-performing companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google—now Alphabet.
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What is a Dividend?
Dividends are bonus payments made to loyal shareholders and distributed as cash or shares. Dividends are great for building exponential wealth.
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What is a Bear Market?
A Bear market is when stock prices fall sharply over a long period of time. In this type of market, pessimistic investors sell large numbers of...
