Blog: Wall Street Survivor

Sometimes investing seems more like a crapshoot than an art, let alone a science. You can pore over data and manipulate charts for hours, read through every submission to the SEC, stare at the fundamentals and calculate ratios until your head starts throbbing and your eyes start bleeding and still make the wrong play. The market is just so unpredictable, so irrational,...

How do you pick the perfect stocks? What goes into the creation of the ultimate investing strategies? Does anyone know how to deliver the kind of consistent above-market returns that everyone wants but almost no one can provide? Where do investors turn for some of the best, most accurate information and insights out there? Zacks. Duh. Zacks Investment Research is one of many...

The mobile-first brokerage and (Reddit-legendary) stock trading platform Robinhood recently launched a product that no one saw coming: Robinhood brand IRAs. It was a peculiar choice given Robinhood’s history as the number one choice for /r/wallstreetbets-style meme trading and poorly thought out options trades, but Robinhood’s gone and done it anyway. There’s no shortage of places to set up an IRA—most banks, brokerages,...

The mobile-first brokerage and (Reddit-legendary) stock trading platform Robinhood recently launched a product that no one saw coming: Robinhood brand IRAs. It was a peculiar choice given Robinhood’s history as the number one choice for /r/wallstreetbets-style meme trading and poorly thought out options trades, but Robinhood’s gone and done it anyway. There’s no shortage of places to set up an IRA—most banks, brokerages,...

Seeking Alpha and Morningstar are two of the bigger names among the legions of sites that provide data, charts, and analysis for investors looking to build and better their portfolios. Sure, some services have more impressive charting tools or cover more types of securities or use AI to find trading opportunities, but there’s a very good reason why Morningstar and Seeking Alpha keep...

The Holy Grail of investing is as obvious as it is elusive: A winning formula for managing investments that returns above-market returns year after year. It’s the kind of pursuit that seems perfectly feasible for new investors fresh out of Finance 101 classes armed with basic formulas and a half-read copy of Security Analysis, but looms ever larger and more insurmountable as they...

Robinhood is a mobile-first stock and ETF trading platform that’s made a name for itself as a straightforward yet surprisingly powerful investing tool. You, like millions of other users, may already be familiar with Robinhood’s free version, but you may not be aware that they offer a paid membership called Robinhood Gold. So what is Robinhood Gold, anyway? How much does it cost?...

Square Inc (now Block, Inc) launched Cash App back in 2013 for one purpose: to be an app. For cash. It wasn’t a guaranteed win at the time. Their biggest competitor, Venmo, had already been on the market for four years, and Cash App had a lot of ground to cover if it wanted to supplant Venmo as the leader in the peer-to-peer...

Introduction Healthcare just keeps getting more expensive. Insurance premiums shoot up year after year, employers are willing to cover less and less of the cost, and there’s no sign of anything changing anytime soon. Americans are increasingly turning to high-deductible plans to save money on premiums, but they don’t call them high-deductible plans for nothing. Millions of Americans are just one illness or...

Introduction America has some of the best doctors, nurses, healthcare facilities, and medical technology in the world. Our universities and research institutions churn out medical breakthroughs on a daily basis, and our healthcare professionals make medical miracles happen. There’s no denying that the American healthcare system is capable of incredible things. It’s also incredibly expensive. The...

There are tons and tons of services out there that promise the best research, the best advice, the best proprietary algorithms and advice, and the best investment tools that can do everything but tuck you into bed at night. Some of them are reasonably priced, but a lot of these services seem to think that it’s okay to charge a mortgage payment's worth...

The world of finance and investing is one of high stakes and constant change. Prices rise and fall, companies come and go. Investing used to be the exclusive purview of small groups of pinstriped men with slicked-back hair and BMWs they paid for by selling junk stocks to rubes and charging exorbitant fees to manage the portfolios of the well-to-do. Things started changing...

Now you know a little about mutual funds and how to find the ones that best fit your investing strategy. But all the knowledge in the world won’t change one immutable fact: Researching mutual funds is boring. You could spend hours, days, or weeks doing research and comparing every mutual fund with every other fund, sure, but wouldn’t it be nice if you...

So now you know a bit about mutual funds: what they are, how they work, how they can benefit your portfolio, and how they can sometimes charge fees that border on the absurd. But don’t go thinking you’re a mutual fund master just yet. There’s a lot of daylight between knowing the basics of mutual funds and actually profiting off that knowledge. We...

You’ve probably heard the term “mutual fund” mentioned on CNBC or thrown around by one of your more financially savvy friends at some point. You know they have something to do with finance, but that’s about it. In this intro to mutual funds, we'll break it down for you. So What the Heck Are Mutual Funds? Mutual funds are basically big, professionally managed...

Scanz claims they have built the premiere stock discovery platform for traders. But with this newly evolved subscription stock scanning service's commanding price premium, everyone has just one question: Is Scanz worth it? It’s never been easier to become an investor. With all the tools, trading platforms, apps, and investing sites, all you need is an hour or two to set up an...

Investing is a game of informed risk taking. You have to pay close attention to the markets, price in changes in sentiment or economic conditions, and take in as much information and as many perspectives as you possibly can. It’s impossible to predict the future, of course, but the investor’s job is to use everything at their disposal to narrow down the possibilities...

Overstock is not a stock website, though it is a website with a stock (NASDAQ: OSTK). The site has made a name for itself as something like an online outlet mall that initially specialized in home décor but has expanded to...

With all the volatility in the stock market these days, you may be wondering what other options are out there for you to invest your hard-earned money in. Real estate is the third-largest asset class in the United States (after stocks and bonds). Previously, it has been difficult for investors to gain access to real estate without physically owning property. But platforms such...

China's economy has grown from near irrelevance to the second largest in the world in less than half a century. Perhaps more incredible than its meteoric rise is the fact that it’s done so without any kind of significant economic contraction. Nearly fifty years of consistently positive GDP growth is practically sorcery in the eyes of the west, as our more democratized and...