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Building Your First $1000 Portfolio
You don't need a fortune to start investing. Here's exactly how to build a diversified portfolio with just $1,000.
Understanding Market Volatility: A Complete Guide
Market volatility scares many investors, but understanding it can help you stay calm and even profit during turbulent times.
5 Common Investing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Learn from others' mistakes. These five investing pitfalls cost beginners thousands of dollars every year—here's how to sidestep them.
Beginner's Guide to Starting Your Investment Journey in 2026
Everything you need to know to start investing in 2026, from opening your first brokerage account to building a diversified portfolio.
What Stock Monitor is building (and why it stays lightweight)
A quick note on the philosophy behind the site and how to get involved.
Learn a little every day (and compound it)
A tiny daily study habit can make stock research feel dramatically more intuitive.
Finding ideas with filters (without going down a rabbit hole)
A quick way to narrow the universe and keep your research time bounded.
Five glossary terms you’ll use every week
A small vocabulary upgrade that makes stock pages and articles instantly easier to read.
Institutional ownership without the hype
Ownership data is useful context, but it’s easy to turn it into a story it doesn’t support.
Congress trades: what to look for (and what not to)
Reported trades can be interesting context, but they’re not a shortcut to certainty.
How to build a watchlist that stays small
A watchlist is only useful if you actually check it. Here are a few rules that keep it lean.
A simple ticker research workflow you can repeat
A lightweight way to go from “I heard about this stock” to “I understand what I’m looking at.”