How to make money even when you invest in the wrong stock.
Buying’s the easy part, here’s how to sell with conviction.
Allen keys and portfolios at the ready.
Knowing whether you’re a saver or investor is an important first step.
Robo-advisers may not always be the right option, even for beginner investors
Stocks are probably the first assets to come to mind when we talk about investment.
...and why you wouldn’t want to.
All about bonds, and which ones you can buy on Freetrade.
Price discovery means investors struggle to buy when the market bell rings
Diversifying too much can make you lose money
The UK economy is shrinking for the first time in a decade.
The battle between the two looks set to heat up in 2021.
Inflation could be the bellwether for the sector in 2021.
Organising your investment toolkit.
How dividends can help you earn some extra cash
How to be your own ETF manager.
Five lessons from the heavyweights
We look at how you can end up buying the same shares on different exchanges
What should investors be looking out for this year?
Our pocket guide to getting started the right way.
We play a quick game of bad investor bingo.
What can we learn from the pros?
Is there room for music royalties in your dividend clump?
My guide on when and how to hold cash, and a little something from Freetrade.
You probably can’t fund thousands of companies but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to learn from the start-up incubator
When emotion bleeds into investing
New year, new behaviour.
The exchange has attracted big winners and losers over the years
Don't expect to get rich quick.
Complete guide to stock dividends, who pays them and how they work towards providing investors with additional income.
As the team build up our portfolios, we’re also testing our process for dividend payments. With this in mind, we thought now would be a good time to take a deeper dive into dividends.
What tariffs and digital taxes are and how they can impact your portfolio
Corporate action: the phrase alone sounds vague, menacing and a bit like a Ben Affleck movie from the early 2000s. So we thought to demystify it.
Funds are one of the most important asset classes to get to grips with when you start investing.
"Asset Classes", an extremely clever play on words.
Today, in our crazy voyage through the investing landscape, we’re looking at cost averaging. 💵
Read any article about compound interest and it’s likely to start with a reference to Einstein calling it the “Eighth wonder of the world”.
Deep dive into what bonds are and how they work
In the UK, property investing has historically been very popular. A soaring property market turned a lot of middle-class boomers into millionaires.
Earnings reports can have a big impact on your portfolio
We explain what happens when a stock goes bankrupt and how we manage it at Freetrade
The S&P 500, the Dow, the NASDAQ. The big stock indexes/indices are probably the first bits of investing jargon we encounter. Everyone can nod…
We look at one of the key method's used to calculate your investment return
We explain what happens when you click 'Buy'
We explain the term that finance geeks are always on about.
Central bank decisions have a big influence on the stock market.
The research you can do to become a better stock picker.
And why it's important to prevent you from losing money.
We look at what happens when the markets go crazy.
How your monkey brain can lead you to make bad investment decisions.
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