I am very interested in learning about the stock market and investing, where is a good place to start?
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Hi Frankie,\n  There are quite a few websites that you can go to for info. But if your just starting out I would suggest Yahoo finance page. From there you can browse through the listings on the left hand side. Go slow and learn the basics day by day. Before you drop one cent into the market, I strongly urge you to test you new found "skills" by paper-trading. This is trading without money. There are a number of sites that allow you to do paper-trading, virtualstockexchange.com being one. This will teach you discipline which you must have or you will lose your shirt & pants and underwear. Do this type of trading for at least 60 days. Iknow I know, you want to make money now. Be patient, this will be the best education you will ever get for trading. It's sorta like the difference between reading a book on swimming or getting in the water and you apply what you read, once your comfortable wading a bit, then you can go to deeper waters,(real cash). \nGo into each trade with a set goal of profit AND loss objective. Always use real or mental stops. Stops are prices you set for closing out the trade, both for profit AND loss, you can place them at the same time you place your order or any point after, I prefer the latter.  \n  Also, be highly skeptical of get rich quick schemes, programs and books/tapes, if their formulas were so great, why are they trying to make a few bucks from you buying them? I doubt it's because they really, truly love you, and they are hoping to receive the NOBLE PRIZE for humanitarianism. \n  I also suggest you spend some time reviewing the info the exchanges have on their websites, invaluable. And let's not forget our boys at the SEC. They have a great wealth of info on particular stocks and companies, a must site.\n  That being said, I wish you the best of luck, cause you will need it, and always remember, your trading points not dollars, this will keep you from getting too emotional, but you will anyways. \nSee ya at the bank...(hopefully not the blood bank)
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Hi,\nFrom my personal experience Innvestools, http://www.investools.com/home.asp, are best for investor education. They could be a bit expensive, though, by some standards. If you want to play with very little money but have a big profit potential, I recommend trading stock options. The best options broker and learning resource are optionsXpress, http://www.optionsxpress.com/.
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I generally find that Fortune magazine and Investor's have good advice.  There are so many funds to choose from that you really need to spend some time reading about them.
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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!
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Get to the library and read up on finance, economics, and investing, there are many basic, cursory books on such subjects.  Also, you can research just about anything you can think of over the Internet.
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research is the key. read bobbrinker.com as your start point.. he lists good books to read as well as a fine investment education section.
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Maybe some tips could be found on www.betonmarkets.com.\n\nOther source are amazon.com's books. Go to the site and search for books with keywords like: trading; wallstreet; expert traders, etc.\n\nHope will help.
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Try investopedia.com.  They have a great way of explaining the ways of the stockmarket.  They also have tutorials and an investing game thats allows u to virtually buy stock and sell American and Canadian stocks in real market conditions.  You are gived USD 100,000 to start off with and its upto u how u grow it.  This is a great learning process. And best of all, all of this is free on ivestopedia.com.  So why not give it a shot?!?!?
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WAY TO GO KIDDO !!!!\n\nYou can start to read up on the stock market... read read read !!!! Email companies and request their prospectus', it is free! Read about the companies that interest you, then you can find a company that you can buy directly from them without a broker. EASY EASY !!\n\nSearch : "direct stock purchase plans" and it will get you headed in the right direction. Heck... persuade friends to learn this too !! Remember ONLY YOU can make your future SWEET !! Get started NOW!!!\n\nEvery time you go out to buy something, put that equal amount away into a jar or savings account. Once a month, once every six months or annually, take that money and put it in your stock  ((that you have done your homework on)).\n\nBest Wishes on a bright financial future!\n\n: )
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visit www.stocksidea.com for every answer
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I use Scottrade.com, but you might want to also consider Sharebuilder.com.  \n\nIf you are looking for investment ideas, the first thing you should do is see what the best traders are buying and selling.  This is the idea behind 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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First you should know what your options for investing are. \n\nIf you don't have a good deal of money (in the thousands), you shouldn't invest in stocks because you won't be able to diversify your holdings enough - you need a well balanced portfolio that fits your goals and spreads out risk.\n\nUsually mutual funds are the most convenient and practical way for most people to invest in the stock market, with fund minimums starting around $1000 for funds like Vanguard STAR (VGSTX, a fund for beginning investors), and most of them being around $3,000 (and certainly going past that).\n\nAnother option is exchange-traded funds. They are baskets of stocks that are traded like stocks, and have lower expense ratios (the percentage that the fund company takes from your total return every year, usually under 1%) than mutual funds. ETFs don't have minimums.\n\nHere's the "Learn" section of a very reputable securities analysis company called Morningstar - they make lots of books about investing which you might want to check out as well.\n\nhttp://www.morningstar.com/Cover/Workshop.html?pgid=hetablearn\n\nIf you take a lot of tests there (and do well on them), you can actually send for a free book. Of course, you'll be on their mailing list after that.\n\nhttp://www.investopedia.com is also another great website for reading about all the different options available to you.\n\nAs for the brokers that you will have to buy your investments through (unless you buy it straight from a fund company like Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, or Fidelity), you have quite a few choices. The more affordable, while still easy-to-use brokers are Scottrade and TradeKing, while E-Trade and TDAmeritrade are very well-established and user-friendly but more costly brokers.\n\nHope I helped.
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Start by learning How to invest, determining WHAT to buy through Fundamental Analysis and determining WHEN to buy through Technical Analysis. \n\nStart with Investors.com, it's William O'Neil's online version of Investors Business Daily.  The How To Invest section is the best place to start learning the importance of Fundamentals and the basics of Technical Analysis.   The site has the IBD 100, a cross index list of the market leaders, the Stock Checkup, a great tool for checking fundamentals on any stock, and articles and analysis of stocks and general market conditions.  They also run various screens every day which in addition to the other lists, (IBD100, New America, stocks under $10, CANSLIM select, ect) are very helpful for finding investment ideas with solid Fundamentals that are ready to move.  The CANSLIM method alone is a very successful and popular trading system, but I prefer to use a combination of Fund & Tech Analysis, rather that just the rating system alone. \n\nFrom there you can move on to more detailed study of Technical Analysis. \n\nStart with StockCharts.com, they have an excellent free Chart School which helpfully explains various chart patterns and Technical Indicators and overlays.  Pay particular attention to the Chart Patterns section, and make sure you learn about Zig Zag patterns, Bollinger Bands, Moving Average, Volume, RSI, the MACD (Mac-D), The Williams %er, Stochastics, and the Chaikin Money Flow.  Sounds complicated, but when you start chart reading you'll want about a half a dozen or so of these overlays and indicators.  I personally rely heavily on the ZIG-ZAG, MACD, Chaikin Money Flow, Volume, Moving Average and RSI. \n\nStockTA.com is also an excellent Technical Analysis site, with charted Fibonacci resistance and support lines and will tell you if the stock is bullish or bearish in the short, medium and long run.  The site also has an extensive Candle Pattern Glossary and a fantastic technical screener. \n\nThe above sites do have premium services, but all the services I mentioned are free.  After you've absorbed some of the Technical information, do some reading on Fibonacci numbers and Elliot Wave theory, there are good links in the "School" section of StockTA.com.  I've been using Elliot Wave and Fibonacci's to help refine my in and out points.  StockCharts.com's "ZigZag" overlay helps me plot and count the waves and that helps determine where I am in the overall pattern. \n\nThe way I personally work is, I'll find interesting stocks through the screens on Investors.com or StockTA.com, run them through the Stock Checkup at Investors.com, if they measure up I'll run them through the Analyisis & Fib Analysis at StockTA.com and do an extensive chart study, examining the 2 yr, 1 yr, 6 mth, 3 mth, 1 mth & 5 day.  I'll also do my due dilligence, studying the profile, key statistics, headlines, etc. through Yahoo Finance and web searches.  If it all measures up and the stock is in a base or in a pull back and it's starting a wave 1 or wave 3, it's time to buy. \n\nRemember, always protect your downside with a stop loss or a trailing stop loss.  Once you have absorbed a few of the things I've mentioned, the fog will begin to lift and you'll start seeing which stocks should be bought or sold and you'll be able to do your own analysis on any stock. \n\nIf it's all too daunting or confusing, stick with it, it takes time to absorb.  Start by paper trading.  Yahoo Finance lets you track portfolios for free, try picking a couple stocks and see how they do.  Be realistic with your buy and sell prices if you paper trade, seeing for example if you can actually get in at the price you want during intraday trading.  If Mutual Funds are more to your liking, the same principles mentioned above can be applied to those as well.\n\nGood luck, hope it helps.
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If you are simply thinking about investing in the stock and bond markets, just go to Fidelity and invest in mutual funds, preferably index funds. You can find index funds of large cap, mid cap, small cap, international, and bonds. These funds have the lowest costs and will grow along with the market.\n\nIf you are thinking of real estate and other investments, you may want to find an Financial Advisor to help you with your decisions. Note that they often take a large cut of your income/trades/etc. so be wary of their fees.\n\nGood luck!
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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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I would suggest practicing your investing skills at http://www.top10traders.com  This is a totally FREE site. You can create your own portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in 'play' money, and then watch how your stocks compare against other traders. \n\n The site lists out which investors are doing the best and what stocks they have bought. Just click on the portfolio of the best investors and you can see the stocks they like.  \n\nGood luck !
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Go to bookstore and get Mutual Funds for Dummies or Investing for Dummies.  They will have easy to understand concept and descriptions.  More information is better when it comes to investing.  Take your time.  Start saving money now and get into the habit.  Put it into a savings account now while you are learning about mutual funds.  When you feel ready, then you already have some money saved up.