Some trade individual stocks; others place bets on entire industries and markets.
Sakiewicz said everyone on the team would trade individual honors for the championship trophy.
A greater concern may be the crackdown on insider trading and how it could affect hedge funds, especially those that trade individual stocks.
The Facebook example is one more confirmation of studies that have shown that, on average, individual investors lose out consistently when they buy and trade individual stocks.
DealBook » Deal Professor: In Picking Facebook Shares, Repeating Past's Mistakes | Steven M. Davidoff says that "individual investors lose out consistently when they buy and trade individual stocks.
Moments after the trade, individual shares traded on markets around the country started to drop sharply, and regulators are looking at whether the trade in the futures market could have been a catalyst for the spiral.
One possibility is to switch among no-load mutual funds rather than trade individual stocks, thus sharing the transaction costs of momentum stock trading with the other fund investors.
But many of our readers told us that they want to trade individual stocks, hence our new Hyperion model.
Before studying finance, he says, he'd used his modest brokerage account to trade individual stocks typically on a tip from his broker and two seconds of research.
Do you have the time or expertise to watch the market closely and trade individual stocks or would it be wiser to choose well-managed funds?
