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Find out why little companies have the greatest potential for growth.

If these numbers have you in the dark, these easy calculations should help light the way.

Discover the key elements of a good long-term investment and how to find them.

How can a trader use the Elder-Ray oscillator as the second screen of this system? Find out here.

Learn about market wave, the second screen in this three-part system.

Getting big quickly looks good, but companies can get into trouble when they do it too fast. Find out how to spot this trouble.

Picking these potential winners is all about sizing up risk. We show you how.

Market tide is the basis for making trading decisions in this three-part system.

Learn to take advantage of both trend-following and oscillator techniques to analyze your trading decisions.

Goodwill represents an acquisition amount over and above what the purchased firm’s net assets are deemed to be valued at on the balance sheet.

If a company is strong enough to survive tough times, it is more likely to provide long-term value.

Understanding the different asset classes is an essential part of portfolio diversification.

Reimann family holding company is paying $340 million for Caribou Coffee, and paid $1 billion for Peet's in July. Is it looking to take on Starbucks?

This straightforward ratio measures whether a company is efficient, money-making or neither.

Find out how to look at the big picture - even when the market's short-term outlook is less than rosy.

Learn how to read these formations of horizontal trading patterns.

Find out how to analyze the way a company spends its money to determine whether there will be any money left for investors.

To analyze retail stocks, investors need to be aware of the most common metrics used. Find out what they are.

This calculation will serve up your portion of the shareholder pie.

In spite of the rewards going public can bring, some companies prefer to remain private, and they are very successful in this.

Learn how enterprise value can help investors compare companies with different capital structures.

ACOs have the components required to securitize. Can your health become an instrument that can be traded?

This type of strategy demands controlled decision-making, requiring a continual refinement of entry and exit techniques.

Find your sound exit strategy based on support and resistance levels, while understanding the psychology behind them.

To protect yourself from an attack, don't swim in this ocean.

A company's retained earnings matter. Be investment-savvy and learn how to analyze this often overlooked information.

Make informed decisions about your investments with these easy equations.

A careful review of a bank's financial statements can help you identify key factors in a potential investment.

These metrics can help you better understand the information found on balance sheets.

Developed in 1967 by Richard Arms, this volume-based breadth indicator can be applied over various time periods.

These figures can either shed light on a company's performance or skew it. Find out why.

Don't rely on Wall Street analysts for information on these stocks.

Find out how to put this important component of equity analysis to work for you.

Calculate whether the market is paying too much for a particular stock.

By using economic releases in a timely way, buyers can beat the "big players" without endless chart analysis.

The metrics for the Statement of Cash Flows is best viewed over time.

Here are some industry-impacting innovations that could potentially belong in the famed Carousel of Progress.

Understanding and analyzing OCI greatly improves financial analysis, especially for financial companies.

The tech sector can provide fantastic returns for investors with a little know-how in the field.

Sometimes positive announcements can mean bad news for a stock. Find out why.

Learn how to think big by investing in smaller stocks.

Learn how to capitalize on the predictable behavior of others during breakouts and breakdowns.

Often the most attractive companies are also a little fierce - learn how to spot healthy corporate aggression.

Here are some U.S. companies that have historically competed with one another for market supremacy.

Learn how to use a number of different indicators to know when to make your trading moves.

Here are some of the worst business decisions of all time, made across a broad range of sectors and industries.

Featuring the right amount of growth and stability, mid caps represent a great opportunity to play the marketplace.

On May 6, 2010, the DJIA plunged 998.5 points in twenty minutes. Find out more about what happened that day.

The investing world loves to talk about fundamentals, but do you know what it means?

Here are 10 financial services books that are informative and useful.

Profit from up, down and sideways markets with commodity trading advisors.

The largest acquisition of 2011 was barely one-sixth the size of the largest from a dozen years ago. Find out what they were.

Learn more about the process business owners go through to seal a merger or acquisition deal.

From pre-market to after hours, see what you need to do to capture gains quickly.

Lousy companies can live on for quite a long time, sucking in investors' hopes and capital.

Adopting realistic expectations is essential to staying in the trading game.

Helium is a non-renewable resource in an industry dominated by an unusual infrastructure.

More common risk theories can lead to missed opportunities. Find out how margin of safety can propel your portfolio.

Intrinsic value reduces the subjective perception of a stock's value by analyzing its fundamentals.

The relatively modest amount of time it takes to build these models can pay for itself by leading you to better investment decisions.

Learn how this indicator uses both price and volume to record a more complete picture of price action.

Dividend payments may reveal information about the future prospects of a company.

By incorporating some of the best practices of top traders, investors can greatly improve portfolio returns.

If the economy has you worried, here are five low volatility ETFs that can keep your money on safer ground.

Impairment charge is a term for writing off worthless goodwill, but you need to know what its potential impact is on EPS.

Big-money sponsorship might make a company look good, but it's not always a reliable gauge of stock quality.

We outline reasons that may show why enforcing more sell ratings isn't guaranteed to increase Wall Street's objectivity.

Predicting sales growth can be something of a black art, unless you ask the right questions.

While there are certainly some differences, American and Canadian investors have more in common than not.

Valuing firms in this sector can seem like a black art, but there is a systematic way to pin a price on potential.

These income statement red flags may not spell a company's downfall. Learn why here.

Learn how to correctly analyze a company's liquidity and beat the average investor.

Learn about the components of the statement of financial position and how they relate to each other.

Discover how companies decide how to spend their cash in a variety of market conditions.

Three useful indicators for measuring a retail company's efficiency are its inventory turnaround times, its receivables and its collection period.

Understanding the relationship between these markets can help you spot profitable stocks.

Discover how these two groups work together to keep the market functioning properly.

Not sure how to determine your equity allocations? Read about a system that can help.

For individual investors, a passive strategy may be best when investing in the small-cap realm of equities.

Learn one of the most common methods of finding support and resistance levels.

From risky manoeuvres to slow-and-steady strategies, we look at five methods to double your money.

Precise and short, the tweezer setup is similar to the more popular double top/bottom formations.

If these companies are looking for growth and cost-cutting, the best bet might be to look to their main competitors.

Profit-taking opportunities abound using this lesser-known pattern. Find out how.

Learn to distinguish between a temporary price change and a long-term trend.

Video rental customers have gone from using video stores to streaming selections available at home. Here's how it happened.

There are two possible candidates to be the next Warren Buffett. Find out who it could be.

Discover some of the contributing factors in determining what stocks are best for day trading.

As countries grow, more opportunities exist for businesses. Here are some companies that have taken advantage of this growth.

Spiders are exchange-traded funds based on an index and can be a great vehicle both for making money and hedging against other risks.

Discover what makes blue chip stocks such attractive investments.

This strategic move may just shoot Samsung to an uncatchable spot in the consumer technology sector.

The popularity of the penny stock market has grown, but are these stocks a safe bet?

Discover why traders use swing charts, how they construct them and how they use them.

The secret to being an activist shareholder is to ask the right questions.

LinkedIn currently trades for $10 more than its IPO price. Find out if the rise is justified.

Companies are increasingly turning to spinoffs for a variety of reasons, including improving performance.