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One of the most important things you can do when researching a stock if you’re a long-term investor is look at the company’s financial statements. We’re talking balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows. A company’s financial statements are available on...

Some traders may hit a wall when they try to use a stock screener to formulate a trading strategy—it’s tough to determine which criteria their stock search should focus on. Screening securities for established metrics like moving averages or earnings ratios can provide a handful of...

To build successful trading strategies, traders need to have a consistent and unbiased means of gauging a stock’s future performance. Technical analysis and analyst opinions can provide a good deal of insight on their own, but one way to differentiate yourself is by having your own big data...

The stories and headlines you’ll find on Benzinga offer a comprehensive overview of the latest happenings on industry news and market-moving developments.  But if going to a website or checking Benzinga on Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) is just too much work, there’s now a quicker way...

When it comes to placing a trade, experienced traders know that there’s often more to the equation than just a stock’s price. The size of your order matters, but so does volume and the bid-ask spread. Together, these data points provide a real-time picture of how exactly other traders...

No sooner has Wall Street come to terms with the results of last quarter’s earnings reports that another earnings season looms only weeks away. That means more volatility in the market as investors scramble to react to the latest 10-Q filings. Earnings are critical for investors, both because...

Your choice of charting platform can serve as a foundational component of your overall research process and investment strategy. Effectively tracking a stock's price and intraday range while comparing those figures to other stocks or indexes empowers your trading with core information on a...

How do you judge Wall Street’s opinion of a stock? You could look at price, sure. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Priceline Group Inc (NASDAQ: PCLN) isn’t 10 times more valuable than Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL).  You could look at analyst ratings, but the opinions of a...

When you’re doing research on a potential investment in a stock, where do you get your information from? Earnings reports? A company’s balance sheet? The technicals? Analyst sentiment? Maybe all of the above. But according to WooTrader, not all of these indicators are reliable at the...

Every trader and analyst has their own picks for the week, month, or even year. But without knowing how they got to those ideas, it’s hard to really trust them. One of the newer and more interesting formats for ranking stock picks over a fairly wide range of quantitative and qualitative...

There are some active traders and investors who follow the equity preferences of billion-dollar hedge funds as though their picks were gospel. Others may just keep track of the information for general sentiment purposes. Regardless, knowing the positions of the giant portfolios at legacy trading...

If you’ve been a trader for any amount of time, you’ve probably scrounged around the SEC's 13F filings page for the latest action from the big hedge funds. While those quarterly documents can give you insight into what equity positions firms like Berkshire Hathaway or Fisher...

For the second year in a row, Benzinga is proud to host the Benzinga Fintech Awards, dedicated to recognizing the innovation of fintech in financial services and capital markets. Ahead of the May 24 gala, we're highlighting the most innovative companies in fintech. Who are they? WooTrader...