Tips & Guidance
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Q. What is a dividend?
A dividend is a payment to a shareholder when a company shares its profits. When a business makes a profit, they can choose to pay dividends to shareholders. If you own shares, you get a certain amount of the profit. These payments to shareholders that come out of the profits are dividends.…
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Q. What Are Stash’s Trading Windows?
All trades placed are queued up and executed during separate trading windows: two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Stash trading windows operate in normal market hours: (i.e. Monday to Friday, excluding market holidays). You can always see the share price your trades were executed at in each trade’s transaction details,…
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Q. I’m losing money in one of my investments. Should I sell and invest in something else?
At Stash, we believe in taking the long view on your investments. We know this can be a little nerve-wracking, but an investment that is up today could lose value tomorrow. This is all a part of learning to invest. Even if you’re seeing an investment go down in value,…
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Q. What is investing?
Investing is an action people take to try earning returns by buying financial instruments like stocks and bonds on an exchange like the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. Stash is a platform you can use to make these types of purchases.…
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Q. What is dollar-cost averaging?
Markets are volatile. What’s an investor to do if they like the overall performance of a company, but don’t want to risk putting a lump sum in its stock the very minute prices temporarily go through the roof? Enter dollar-cost averaging—it’s a way of reducing risk by regularly buying a specific dollar amount of an investment over a period of time and removing the need to time the market.…
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Q. How do I know when to sell my investments?
At Stash, we believe in taking the long view on your investments. A pillar in the Stash Way is investing for the long-term. Even if you’re seeing an investment go down in value, we recommend holding on to it. In the long run,…
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