7 Jargon Words Explained in Finance — Brokerage Edition

Opening a brokerage account can be intimidating, and even more so when the words and jargon on the screens sound more like calculus than dollars and sense. We’d like to break down the 7 most common concepts and jargon words you hear…

Why Triggers are Important

You don’t have time to watch the market everyday. You have work, life, family, friends, Netflix and Instagram. Managing your own investment portfolios in your brokerage account often times takes a backseat. For those who have no interest in self managing their investments, robo…

What makes a good trigger?

Understanding how different Trigger types can minimize risk and capture…

5 Jargon Words Explained in Finance — “Fed” aka Federal Reserve Edition

The Fed probably plays the most crucial role in the US economy and in the world economy. Yet most people have little idea how the Fed works, what it actually does and why its decisions have so much impact…

Introducing Trigger

Exactly 1 year ago, we started a company called Trigger Finance. Our mission was simple, to inspire all investors to invest rationally through a simple rules-driven approach.

Anyone who’s ever bought or sold a stock will know; often times an emotion, like fear or…

What is a Trigger

A trigger is a simple, yet powerful IF THIS THEN THAT statement that can turn any financial or world event into an action on your portfolio. A trigger will get “triggered” or “fired” whenever the event that you cared about occurs, like if GOOG last traded price went above $80o or if the Federal…

I’ve got growth on my mind

This Friday we will get the second reading of US GDP for the last quarter of 2015. The U.S. economy probably ended 2015 much weaker than analysts anticipated, with the current estimates showing the slowest growth in the past two years.