Investing

Lots of startups and tech companies have taken to offering their employees stock options, or ESOP (employee stock option plan), alongside their salary. It’s both a way to provide a bigger potential payday for employees, and a way to incentivize them to help the company succeed. Stock options sound exciting, but they can also be confusing. There are terms like exercise, vesting, and liquidity events, and rules around when you can do what. Let’s cut through a bit of that confusion and walk through exactly how company stock options work. 

You may have read about NFT’s a lot in the news lately. But what are these obscure digital tokens that are suddenly making people rich?

In part one of this series, we taught you how to read a statement of operations. If you haven’t read that yet, start there, and come back here after. This time, we’re going to look at the second part of every company earnings report: the balance sheet. This is an important accounting tool, and a critical part of every company earnings report. Like before, we’re going to walk through the balance sheet of this earnings report by Apple.

Do you remember when Netflix was a service that delivered DVDs by mail? In fact, the company had a long history before it became the streaming and entertainment juggernaut it is today. These days, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t have a Netflix subscription. But does that mean you should invest in Netflix?

If you want to become an investing pro, at some point you’re going to have to read an earnings report. These reports usually come out four times a year and are absolutely packed with information and numbers. On first sight, they can be a bit intimidating. But they’re not as scary as they look, and with some help from us, you’ll be analyzing them in no time.

In October 2018, Canada legalized the sale and consumption of marijuana nationwide. Many U.S. states have done the same before and after. The effects in Europe have been minimal, as cannabis is still illegal in almost all European countries, though some like Spain, Italy and Portugal have decriminalized it. But one effect of legalization has been felt even in Europe: the explosive growth of cannabis stocks.

If you’re new to investing, you might be confused why every financial news outlet constantly talks about earnings. What are earnings? Why are they quarterly? What is a quarter? And why do people care so much about all of these? If any of those questions are applicable to you, we’ve got you covered. This is your absolute beginner’s guide to quarterly earnings.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: no one really knows what a cryptocurrency is. They just showed up one day and we’ve all been pretending to understand them since. OK, maybe that’s not exactly true, but fact is, even self-proclaimed cryptocurrency experts don’t always know the details of the technology.

Even if you know nothing about investing, you probably know that it’s an inherently risky behaviour. The word risk can be scary. Bungee jumping is risky. Asking your crush out is risky. When you talk about risk in investment it’s slightly different than those two. But what exactly does it mean? And how do you figure out your risk appetite?

If you’ve ever been to Wall Street — the literal street in New York City, not the metaphor for the stock market, you’ve seen the large statue of a bull in front of it. Images of bulls seem to be all around the investing world. You’ve likely even heard of the term bull and bear. But what do they mean?

There are many people in the world who save money and never invest a cent of it. There are also people who invest a ton of money without having savings. Is either group right? Should you be focused on saving, or investing?