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By law, your plan administrator (employer) must allow you to change your allocation at least quarterly, but most plans allow for more frequent changes.
Generally speaking, you can change your allocations as often as you need to with no commissions or fees; that is, up to a point. Many plans start to impose fees after about the 10th reallocation, and partially this is meant to discourage over-trading.
By law, a plan must permit participants to reallocate at least once a quarter, but most plans accommodate more frequent trading. As a rule of thumb, you should probably not change your allocation more often than once a month.
Some plans may also facilitate automatic rebalancing to your original asset allocation at regular intervals. Some would argue that maintaining an allocation through rebalancing is the surest way to achieve the desired investment results, as per the theories of Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz.
To be “listed” means a stock has been registered and approved for trading on an exchange
Upgrades and downgrades can be useful but they may not be the most current form of trading information
There are plenty of well-informed and trustworthy sources out there, too. There are literally millions of websites
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Debt ratios give a relative picture of a company’s ability to repay debts, make interest payments, and meet other duties
Ex-Dividend is a classification on a stock that indicates the dividend payable is to the seller of the stock, not the buyer
Revenue that has not yet been received for goods or services already rendered may be documented as Accrued Revenue
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