According to one old adage, making money in stocks is simple: Just buy low and sell high. Unfortunately, most people do the exact opposite -- buy high and sell low -- and pay dearly for it. Here's why we do that, and how you can avoid making those mistakes in the future.
You'll never have the chance to lose $200 billion, but the odds are good that, over the past several years, you lost your personal share of $200 billion in potential investment gains. But here's the good part: The kinds of mistakes that cost us that cash are entirely avoidable. Here's how.
Right now, there's probably one of two very different devils sitting on your shoulder, whispering in your ear. And it's dictating your every financial move -- either paralyzing you or compelling you to overreact.
The coming electricity revolution will see conventional meters phased out in favor of "smart" meters to help create the smart grid. It should be a win-win for customers and the utilities -- but the utilities are getting greedy.
Whatever else you say about Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, he's no slave to public opinion. He does what he wants, no matter how sleazy it sounds -- and no matter how much money it costs him or his company's shareholders.
Two former brokers convicted of securities fraud won't have to return the $4.45 million signing bonus they received from Morgan Stanley, ruled an arbitration board.
