Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC ...

Microsoft Excel has dozens of preset formulas for many types of mathematical calculations, but compounding interest isn't one of them. To calculate the future value of a single amount compounded ...