This week is the official launch of the brand new stock terms definitions area of the stocktradingtogo.com site. Each day this week I will be posting 50 of the 300+ total terms that can be found currently.
On every page of the site you can now find a simple alphabet to help browse by first letter [...]

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This week Scottrade officially opened its doors to the public for viewing its new financial Community of Scottrade members. The Scottrade social network is designed to build customer knowledge, relationships, and promote investor education.
Originally launched back in April the new community site was only available to select Scottrade customers. Since though Scottrade has allowed all [...]

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TD Ameritrade asks investors the question, “Thought about where you’ll be in 2040?” I am sure most investors have not, but TD Ameritrade has. Their new Independence ETFs won the award for the “Most innovative ETF product for Americans” at the 4th Annual Global ETF Awards and are now available for all TD Ameritrade clients.

Independence [...]

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Heading into the last few days of July there are 12 mutual funds that have had returns of atleast 10% for the month.
A sector that most investors may have overlooked was Biotechnology which had a stellar performance for a group as a whole making up half of the following list.
Here are the best performing mutual [...]

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For anyone willing to take a contrarian view, this past week was a lot of fun. With the market showing extreme stress, it felt as if the pain would never end. All stocks were sold and fundamentals were disregarded. Having positioned myself very long and exposed to the companies I felt were [...]

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OptionsXpress has been featured in numerous publications receiving awards from Barron’s, Forbes, Kiplinger’s, Smart Money, and more. As an online stock broker OptionsXpress thrives in offering simple and inexpensive ways to buy and sell stocks and trade options.
Some of the reasons for investors to choose stock broker OptionsXpress over competitors Scottrade, ShareBuilder, TD Ameritrade, Fidelity, [...]

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There are several key stock market indexes every investor should know when trading. The major stock indexes are the NASDAQ Composite, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrials, and the NASDAQ 100.
Here is a list of all 100 companies that make up the NASDAQ 100 market index along with their stock tickers:

MSFT - Microsoft Corp
GOOG [...]

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