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My name is Shun. I am the Founder of Target Trition.

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I'm Nicole Lapin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some money we have.

We're in the thick of earnings season. The time when public companies report to investors

how they did financially over the last quarter. These earnings calls have a big impact on the

company's stock price. Now, if you invest in index funds, my fave, earnings calls won't

affect your investments because index funds shelter you from the fluctuations of one given stock.

But if you invest in specific companies, you will certainly be affected by their earnings calls.

Buying and selling a company stock around earnings is a popular move for day traders,

especially buying and selling stock options, which is a trading move that is essentially betting

that the price will go in a particular direction after the earnings call. They pay off, for sure,

can be big, but it's far more likely that you'll lose money if you don't know what you're doing,

especially if you're new to the world of trading. Now, there are some obvious announcements that can

affect a stock price. Like if a company reports lower measures of financial success,

the stock price will go down. If a company reports higher, the stock price will go up.

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