how do you trade stocks ? how do you make money off of it?
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1) Save capital.\n2) Read a few books on the subject of trading and technical analysis.\n3) While you are saving capital,  paper trade(practice).\n4) If you already have the capital, skip 1 but practice.\n5) You can open a brokerage account that allows for live paper trading(practice).\n6) Start with small trades.\n7) Cut you losses quickly and take your profits.\n8) Trading is not a place for hope or greed\n9) Go with the trend. Go long when the trend is up, go short when trending down. It is more complicated then that but you can't learn to do it by posing a question here.\n\nMartin Pring has a few good books out there for beginners.
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I'm a trader - I earn a living trading the markets. But for investors its a whole different world. Investors have totally different goals to traders.\n\nI would recommend you start your learning by looking up best sellers in the investment genre and then go to a bookshop and buy the book or borrow the book from your library.\n\nOne good investment book I picked up (and bought) was Beating the Street: Books: by Peter Lynch\n\nGood Luck!
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if u get enough traffic u might be able to sell advertising to a trading company. However you cant get commisions on sales because you are not a licensed stock broker.
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You can trade kaushik. \n\nThe present limit is up to $ 25000 according to RBI. So you can have a portfolio of US stocks up to that amount.\n\nOf course you have to register yourself with a broker in US to trade on NASDAQ/NYSE
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Stock market is a kind of business where things happen so fast that one can’t handle it. It’s like a fighter jet where one mistake makes up loose a lot. \n\nBut once you had a good grip on it, you do get good returns. I suggest you to enter in the market after learning and getting good info about how it works. \n\nIf you have 100$ for example as saving, I suggest you keep 33% of it in safe deposit, invest 33% in secure stocks, and take risk or do learning with 34%, so you wont loose all. \n\nIts better to start with any online company in the initial phase. and yes if you want to learn trading try to find some game or go to this website www.fxplayer.com or FXCM trading website become their member and start dummy forex trading, it will help you in understanding the logics and tricks of trading.\n\nIn this world, 5 things exist in all businesses.\n1- Seller\n2- Buyer\n3- Product\n4- profit/loss\n5- How quick you make a decision\n\nThe best TIP for any business like trading or anything that my dad told me is\n\nDon’t hold your stock or goods if you are getting some profit, cos you don’t know what price the next customer will offer you. \n\nWith my 15 years of business experience, when ever I go opposite to his direction, in 80% cases I never got the best price. Indeed experience counts a lot.
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First of all, $3 is a complete and utter waste of your money and any brokerage firm's time (there is a cost to the firm to process your transaction.\n\nIt doesn't work as an investment because, you can't buy anything but a single share of a penny stock that way, and penny stocks are well..virtually worthless and usually trade infrequently and with a wide margin between the buy and sell price (if you don't know what that means, you are not ready to buy stocks).\n\nIn other words, you won't make a dime.  I do know of a firm that will let small investors buy fractional shares of stocks, but not at the level you are talking about so I'll spare THEM the hassle.\n\nSmall investors should start with mutual funds.  Mutual funds come with instant diversification (which is important for both risk sake AND potential returns sake) and professional management.  There are a few fund companies that will let you start as small as a few hundred dollars and with regular monthly investments of $25-50.\n\nBut if you are just trying to learn the market and don't have money to invest, do two things:\n\n1. Buy a beginner's book on investing - Investing for dummies is a good one, or..more specifically Stock Market for Dummies.\n\n2. Go to Yahoo.com or one of the other websites that has virtual trading games and join one.   That's where you play with "virtual" money (ie..no real cash).  It lets you get the feel for how to invest, before you risk any real cash.\n\nREAL traders, both professional and good amateurs, always start out paper trading (virtual trading) to learn how to read the charts and understand technical analysis BEFORE they ever touch real cash.
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There are plenty of good methods out there being sold by a lot of traders and scam artists alike - all cashing in on the greed that people have. Some work, others are just exaggerated. \n\nAt least you are looking into it... other traders just simply gamble away their money.\n\nMy suggestion is, once you've found a method that works for your trading style - stick to it. There are so many ways to skin a cat as there are to trade - there is no one "right" way to trade.
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There are several platforms out there where you can do automated trading. This is very very difficult to do though. It is hard enough to make money trading while you are siting there watching. Anyway. I am pretty sure TradeStation will allow you to do this. It may take a little time to learn the programming language though.
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You might want to try out Stephen Cooper's teaching on how to trade stocks and options. It is good !
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To get indepth knowledge of how stock market works you will have to devote time and have patience.\nStart watching CNBC and NDTV Profit and start reading Economic Times.\nSlowly you will be able to understand all the factors which drive a share market and also learn about the performances of individual stocks.\nAlso on net you can visit www.moneycontrol.com and www.profitfromus.com . These sites ahve Q&A sections and Blogs which will help you in better understanding on the subject.
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First, how you buying and selling stocks? Where are they being traded? And may I ask what type of stocks are they. First thing I tell anyone who wants to do this, is three things. Research, research, research. If you really want to do the best without a broker (and good luck to you) you will need to do a lot of research in the stock you want to buy. It can be very complex and require more than a five minute conversation. Know of any stockbroker wannabe's?
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I think you should look at what the best traders are buying and selling.  The stocks that they are selling short (long=false) would be what I consider "bad" stocks.  You can find this info at http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx \n\nGood luck!
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commodity is a sure way to make $ quickly but also loose all of it very quickly.  Set up sharebuilder and research and choose a stock of an established company.  put in $500 each time over the next 12 months into that stock ( that's 4 x @ $4 each time). or buy $150 each month over 12 months or even more... as now you've just started the process of investing on very little savings.. Otherwise, set up and scot or etrade and day tray on established companies.
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I suggest http://www.Top10Traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money. Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors. You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\nGood luck !
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Buying a stocks is like you'r buying a peace of company.  That's mean you own a small peace property of a company.\nYou are betting on the future of company success.  If they fail or in some cases, they go bankruptcy, you lost the entire money.  Your shares become worthless. \n\nTo get started, you need to open an account with any on line brokers like Fidelity or Scottrade.  Some brokers required minimums to open account.  For example, Scottrade required $500 to open.  Once you activate your account, you can start trade online.\n\nIn your case, I would recommended you read a books on how to invest in stock market.  I suggested you read, How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'neil, and One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch.  My last advice to you is don't lost any money okay.
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Try http://www.etrade.com\n\nSimply put: you buy a part of the company looking to profit either in the long (investment) or short term (a short term trade).
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If you want to invest in the stock market I would suggest first seeing what the best traders are buying and selling.  Check out http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx \n\nMy stock recommendation would be PWI, a stock I own personally.  This is a Canadian Royalty Trust that pays a great dividend.  The stock has sold off recently, so I think the price is good.\n\nGood luck!