Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter (coming soon) about finance and economics. On the menu today: The Role of Robinhood, Inflation-Adjusted Capital-Gains Taxes, and Shakespeare’s Influence on Adam Smith.

Ross Cameron was brought up in Vermont, the USA. He graduated from the College of Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts. While still at school, he worked part-time in design and mastered the creation of engineering documentation in AutoCAD. Ross lived in Manhattan in the mid-2000s and worked for an engineering and design bureau. Ross…

Stock market darling Sasol has warned it will report an annual loss as a result of falling oil and chemical prices and the impact of Covid-19 shutdowns. The announcement on the Stock Exchange News Service failed to dampen enthusiasm for the share, which is among the most closely watched in South Africa. Sasol has had…

Tapestry Inc (NYSE:TPR)’s stock price shot up 6.3% during mid-day trading on Monday after UBS Group raised their price target on the stock from $14.00 to $15.00. UBS Group currently has a neutral rating on the stock. Tapestry traded as high as $15.48 and last traded at $15.43, 7,307,840 shares traded hands during mid-day trading.…

While the coming months will bring new opportunities for construction firms to grow, they could also pose new challenges, particularly if new lockdown measures are introduced. The recent Lloyds Bank Business Barometer reported an eight-point slump in July to -22 per cent after recording a 30-point rise in the construction industry’s confidence in June.

Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) traded up 6.4% during mid-day trading on Monday following insider buying activity. The company traded as high as $17.85 and last traded at $17.83, 6,069,752 shares traded hands during mid-day trading. An increase of 76% from the average session volume of 3,449,448 shares. The stock had previously closed at $16.76.

There’s little doubt that day trading has mushroomed in popularity in recent months, or that some day traders have produced extraordinary profits. According to statisticians, however, there’s also little doubt that most of these day traders’ good performance is due to luck. They essentially would have just as good a chance of success going to…

Which pairs you opt to day trade or swing trade will depend on your trading style. We’ll talk a bit about that, and then discuss which forex pairs to trade.  The less time a trade lasts, the more attention that strategy requires. A day trade that lasts 3 or 4 minutes requires steady focus. That…

What can you do with $1,000 in your pocket? It depends on the country you are living in. In the US or EU, you can’t buy many things, but you can start a long road to financial independence by investing this amount into trading.

There aren’t many books about investing that remain relevant over 40 years after they were first published. Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, first published in 1973 and now in its twelfth edition, is one.

During times of uncertainty, it’s not hard to see the appeal of day trading. Months from now the markets will likely prove that some stocks were undervalued while others were worth a fraction of their selling price. Considering that, thanks to such apps as the uber-popular, commission free Robinhood, stocks are just a tap and…

Cryptocurrencies can be day traded, and they come with a huge advantage: the markets are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means that for each trading day, you get more hours to day trade than you would have for trading stocks. You also have an advantage over day trading forex in…

The coronavirus shutdown has resulted in a resurgence of day trading, particularly on zero-commission apps. But could the entry of large numbers of speculative day traders create a bubble in stocks? In our book “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles,” we document the role played by day traders and other novice investors…

One of the narratives in the current day trading boom is that investors have completely internalized the buy-the-dip mentality, following Warren Buffett’s legendary quote to be “greedy when others are fearful.”

Mary Baldwin, Guest columnist Published 4:45 p.m. ET Aug. 7, 2020 Q: My son has been furloughed and wants to start a new career. He has friends who are day trading and he has asked to borrow money from me so he can start. Is this a good career for him?

Manchester has never quite managed to earn itself the reputation of being a city that never sleeps – but we do have a pub that never sleeps. The Seven Oaks is a haven for hospitality workers, serving after-work drinks to those who finish work in the dead of night.

Currently, in early July 2020, the world is just starting to emerge from the Coronavirus. Many people are still observing social distancing rules and working from home. The pandemic saw the stock market drop dramatically, and it has since been unpredictable as investors’ fear ebbs and flows.

One of the narratives in the current day trading boom is that investors have completely internalized the buy-the-dip mentality, following Warren Buffett’s legendary quote to be “greedy when others are fearful.”

Investing is a one- to three-year undertaking and the reason is simple: It can take time for the performance of a company’s shares to reflect a company’s financial performance. Yes, the uncertainty and volatility of the financial markets can be unnerving. And yes, it is natural to lose faith when the day’s trading activity shows a…

(Bloomberg Opinion) — The U.S. threat to delist Chinese companies just got a lot more real. Yet businesses from Asia’s biggest economy continue to line up to sell shares on American exchanges — and are thriving. What’s going on?