Part 3: True Costs of Trading

As stated in the book "Investment Philosophies" by: Aswath Damodaran (recommend), there are three main sources that contribute to trading costs. 
1. The bid-ask spread
2. The price impact
3. The opportunity cost of waiting

the source of the following information is from the book listed above. 

Part 2: True Costs of Trading

As stated in the book "Investment Philosophies" by: Aswath Damodaran (recommend), there are three main sources that contribute to trading costs. 
1. The bid-ask spread
2. The price impact
3. The opportunity cost of waiting. 

the source of the following information is from the book listed above. 

Part 1: True Costs of Trading

This blog is meant to provide you with more information on trading costs. Most retail investors don't understand what goes into trading costs. When I first started, the only cost to me was the commission set by the broker to buy the number of shares. $4.95. This is the only cost you'll explicitly pay, but there are more that come up over time. The more I do this and the more I learn, the more I realize how uninformed I really was.

Active vs. Robo Advisors

Almost everyone at some point has worried about money. Where to get it, what to do with it when you have it, how not to lose all of it. The basics. For most people, they don't know enough about the stock market or economics to feel comfortable investing their money on their own, so they turn to money managers. This is where you can get ripped off by the smaller money institutions wit loaded funds and high expense ratios. With the bigger firms there is more to be offered for much less. Below we'll get into what active investing is and the alternative to it if you like it but can't do it yourself. Then we'll try and scrape the surface on the recent financial innovation in robo advisors.

Enjoy the read.