Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

When money is put into the stock market, the goal is to generate a return on the capital invested. Many investors try not only to make a profitable return, but also to outperform, or beat, the market.

We've just had the great Berkshire Hathaway jamboree and Warren Buffett used it, as he so often does, to point out that you and I, the average investors, almost certainly don't want to be trying to ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marco Annunziata, chief Economist at UniCredit Group, has fired a couple of rounds at critics of efficient ...