Financial Literacy

Using American Depositary Shares to Access Foreign Markets

Learn how you can use American Depositary Shares to gain access to foreign companies and markets that can expand your portfolio.

What Is APY (Annual Percentage Yield)?

What is APY? Learn more about annual percentage yields and how this tool can help you understand the potential return on investment.

What is APR (Annual Percentage Rate)?

What is APR exactly? Learn more about annual percentage rates and how they can affect you as an investor or as a borrower.

What Is an Alternative Trading System?

What is an alternative trading system? Learn more about how these systems provide liquidity for hedge funds and institutional investors.

What Is an Alternative Investment?

What is an alternative investment? Learn more about the many different types of investment opportunities outside of traditional stocks and bonds.

What Is Alpha Investing?

What is alpha investing? Learn more about this risk ratio that measures the overall worth of an investment opportunity in the market.

Understanding Share Allotment

Share allotment is a great way for companies with huge growth prospects to fund scalability within the business over time.

What is Algorithmic Trading?

What is algorithmic trading? Learn how investors analyze data to discover trends, patterns and much more before investing in a company.