Online Trading Academy Reviews
MainStFinance.com was founded with the goal of helping individuals from Main Street America keep up financially during these difficult economic times. We love providing insightful tips, helpful explanations, and creative insights into the way the financial world works for Americans but we also understand at times people want more in depth information. To help individuals…
Avoiding Fraud
Bernie Madoff has made fraud and the classic Ponzi scheme front page news and brought those those to the forefront of investors mindsets. Truth be told, fraud is ever present and Ponzi schemes occur all the time to all kinds of people. Here are few ideas on how to avoid such schemes and keep your…
How European Banks are Hurting Your Retirement
If you’ve been following the market recently, you’ve seen a lot of up and downs that the headlines claim are the result of issues and actions in the Eurozone. Maybe you all have the same question I do…what does the Eurozone have to do with stocks in the US? Let’s take a look at the…
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Emotional Investors
Humans are emotional. That statement is true if you look at the top movies for the weekend (50/50, for example) and it’s true if you watch how investors work. Investors are prone to mistakes based on emotional factors, so let’s take a look at a few: “I like this company” Liking a company doesn’t mean…
The Politics of the Economy
The hottest topic in politics these days is the economy, for good reason of course. The U.S. is facing a very difficult time. The fast plunge of the economy and hardship of the recession appear to be behind. Companies are making money (take Apple for example, which is experiencing excellent sales), but unemployment remains high….
Movers and Shakers
There’s a whole lot of shaking going on, and yes, I had to resist very much to not put a great Elvis picture in this post, but that tagline was just too hard to resist. As bad as the pun may be, the story is still true. The markets are all over the place, there…
Personal Finance for Main St
When residents of Main St look for news on how the economy is performed that day, it's often reported in terms of how the "Dow" or the S&P 500 performed that day. So what is the Dow? Ditto for the S&P 500?
