In 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) is continuing its strategy of stimulating the European economy with cheap money. To do so, the ECB is keeping the base rate at the current record low of 0.25 percent, as announced in […]

If you look at the long-term development of stock indices, commodities or even individual securities, you will notice that very often, there is a long-term upward trend, which is interrupted by a short regression. If you can expect such a […]

No one would buy a house without taking out insurance against the most common dangers (fire insurance, burglary insurance, household insurance). What is the biggest risk with shares? Of course, the price loss! One could now believe that there is […]

ETFs are highly popular among (small) investors. Traders have invested 43 billion euros net in ETFs in 2014. The total assets invested in European ETFs amounted to 379 billion euros at the end of 2014, of which 257 billion euros […]

Anyone who wants to increase their assets and achieve a reasonable return these days will (naturally) be disappointed by traditional forms of investment such as overnight money, fixed deposits or home loan and savings accounts. On average, overnight money does […]

Lately, the DAX has repeatedly broken its record high. As we have described here, we do not believe that the DAX is currently overvalued, but this article is not about whether one should invest in the DAX, but how one […]

In the financial sector and especially on the stock exchange, you will often hear about point values. This term always refers to the basis point in comparison to the percentage point. Both are fundamentally different values. Percentage points One percentage […]

In this article, we will deal with the topic of stock options. Here, we have already described how put options can be used to secure the value of your shares. For small investors, this is also the only use of […]