Tag Archives: Dow Jones

When it comes to investing in financial markets, it’s a wise decision, sometimes to say ‘no’. It’s perfectly ok, when you think the selection process as proposed in last chapter is too hard and too time consuming, and just following tips from the internet is too dangerous. So just don’t do it, besides there is an alternative, how you can …

In financial markets, the most significant news are usually the moving of stock market indices. There are hundreds of them across all asset classes. We focus on the most important Indices for stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is probably the best-known and most widely followed financial index in the world. It consists of 30 of the largest publicly traded firms in the …

When the first stock market index was created in 1884, there was no motorcar on the streets and no one could imagine, that humans will ever fly in airplanes. Stock markets – or meeting points for buyers and sellers – were around for centuries, with the merchants of venice or the dutch exchanges. Years later, the London stock market was …

Priorities & Profits A few month ago, a client of mine from Austria asked me to support him in the process of recruiting an employee for his office in Romania. The open position included regular office duties with a changing workload, sometimes low, but just the next day could bring a ton of work, I was told. And the candidate …

It’s the essence of being a successful investor. Invest in a stock at a low level and to sell it at the top. To achieve this, financial institutions let nothing untouched. Hundred of people spending thousands of hours feeding millions of company- and economic-data into computers. Besides this fundamental approach, we have also the technical analysis where the focus is …