Has anyone done a WinInvesting share trading course?  Please give your opinion.?
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The first basic mistake was to take an online course.\nIf you want to take an online course then you should probably find a mentor, who has been trading for quite long.. and who is an experienced professional trader himself.\nSomeone like me ;-)\n\nMail me sometime..\nlets see what can we do together..!!\n\nCheckout my webpage:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/kgirishraman\n\n\nEmail me at kgirishraman@yahoo.com\n\nGirish
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I haven't tried or heard of it, but using a strategy to make money that is for sale rarely works because the people in the market over exploit the markets potential for profit. You need to find a market that has prfits to be made, and do it yourself, best not to tell anyone what you plan to do, and when you do best to keep the amount of your profits to yourself.
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I have been consistently getting about 800% returns per annum (on a £1000/- initial investment - as that was the max I was ready to loose). After 1 year, my balance was £7600/- after withdrawing my initial £1000/- at month 8.\n\nThis was possible by playing the Forex Market at very low risk on the GBP / Yen Exchange rate only. If you are a very systematic person and can control the risk taking urge, you make money. Once you loose the control, you loose your money. What I do is I just do a One Touch over 180 days which are the lowest the system will allow. One of my current investments is as follows:-\n\nOne Touch: Win GBP2000 if, at any time before midnight GMT on 16-MAR-07 [inclusive], GBP/Japanese Yen touches 223.7. \n \nTrade price was GBP1812 (=90% of payout). \nPayout is GBP2000 (=1.1 times trade price). \n\nThe current price of GBP/Japanese Yen is 223.11\nThe market price of GBP/Japanese Yen at the time of purchase of the bet was 222.78 (on 16-Nov-2006)\n\nThus over a period of max 15 days, the rate will be touched and I will get a profit of £188/-. This will be added in my account. The quickest profit has been in 2 days previously and the longest have been 20 days. This is very low risk. I do not understand how they can afford that. We need to take care that the bet is placed when the daily trend is downwards. It works but only if we do not become gready.\n\nDo register and try them out. They also give you £10/- free (after 15 days when you have done your address validation). So you can play and try with that amount and later inverst only after you are sure. Minimum investment to make a return ae about £9.20 pence so you may initially make only 80 pence or so profit every few days if you do not put in any of your own money. I enclose my referal link but I will not earn any referal commision if you follow my strategy as they give a commision only if the payout is greater than 80%.\n\nWell best of luck
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It appears that you have gotten some pretty good advice from the other folks that responded to your question. I've been a stockbroker for 15 years and I would strongly caution you against attempting to trade your way to the top. Over the years I have worked with thousands of clients. I work in the active trading division of Charles Schwab. We have clients that trade anywhere from 100 trades a year to, in some rare cases, folks who trade 40 to 50 trades per day. I'll bet that I can count on one hand the number of these "sophisticated" traders who were actually successful over time. In reference to your question about trading small amounts of money, it's pratically impossible to be successful doing this. The reason is that traders are getting in to a position and out of a position so quickly that they sometimes are happy just making a 1/4 to a 1/2 a point per trade. You will pay a commission on both the buy and sell side. In addition to this, you will pay taxes on your gain. The only way that you can achieve a profit is if you can gain enough to offset the commissions and taxes. If you are only buying a small number of shares (ie. anything under 100 shares) you will need your position to increase dramatically just to cover the fixed costs of doing the trades. The guy who responded who goes by wallstreeter gave you some ridiculous advice if you ask me. Don't think for a minute that some associate analyst is sitting around waiting for a call from you about hot stock tips. Those guys are working 80 - 100 hours a week as it is and they aren't paid to talk to you and I. Go to your local library and think of it as your job to get educated about the basics of investing. Yahoo finance has some great information that you could spend months learning about. Think long term and stay away from all get rich quick trading schemes. (None of them work) Good luck.
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Well I recently invested in the stock market with 1k. I baught LOGI at like 25.80 and its up to 27.50 or something so I'm doing rather well for myself I'd say! I use Scottrade...(if you want to sign up let me refer you so we both get 3 free trades...they dont give you anything if no one refers you) send your email to cammyton@yahoo.com if you are insterested.\n\nP.S I am planning on investing in toshiba next I think because they are rather cheap and I believe they are a part of that new BlueRay DVD thing coming out.
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I'd suggest speaking to a stockbroker about costs etc, and the returns would depend on the performance of the company.  I think they're about £4 a share just now, and they performed very well last year.  I've thought about it too because Tesco seem to be taking over the world just now...!
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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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Lawrence Macmillan.  Options as a Strategic Investment.\n\nThe revered bible.\n\nBut before investing in this weighty tome, why not check out the education sections of the options exchanges:\n\nwww.cboe.com\nwww.888options.com (the clearing corporation)\nwww.m-x.ca (the montreal exchange, has the best discussion of "the Greeks" - deltas, thetas, gammas, rhos - that options traders sooner or later need to learn)\nwww.ivolatility.com - for a volatility calculator\nalso the international securities exchange, the boston exchange, the amex
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It is not wise to invest all your portfolio in just one stock.\n\nI can advise you.
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Hi fren, I think it is not advisable to invest in Mutual Funds this time, provided u have some other investments which can compensate any loss u might incur. I say so because if u follow market, u can see that for few of the very strong funds the NAV has gone down.\nMutual funds, depend on share market and currently all the analysts (national and international) have advised their clients to take a vacation.\nI think for a new investor like you, u should wait for some time, let the market stabilise once then u can think of getting in.
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If you have to ask this question, I would recommend that you not even pursue this course until you have studied the existing options for investing.  If you are referring to buying stock commonly traded on an exchange, you have several options, none of which is advisable for a beginner, nor for someone who does not have already, considerable savings on hand, especially if you are a student.\n\nIf you are referring to buying equity shares in a private company, then that is a different matter altogether.  Unfortunately, as terminology can vary from country to country, and as you haven't provided many details, it is impossible to reliably advise you.\n\nI will assume you are talking about buying "stocks" on an exchange.  If you are in the United States, one normally opens an account with a broker.  There are online brokers you can use like Scottrade, Ameritrade, etc.  Normally one fills out some paperwork and sends it in with a check/draft/wire deposit.  You can then buy and sell stocks through this broker.  You place an order on a stock, like GE for example, which the broker fills.  \n\nI would experiment with this on quote.yahoo.com before doing it for real.  There are also lots of places you can turn to for investment advice.\n\nA safer thing to do with your money if you are a student (at university if you are out of the house) is to put the money in savings, certificate of deposit, money market fund, or other low risk option.   An option many investors use to buy stock at slightly lower risk is called a mutual fund.  Research these options thoroughly.\n\nGood luck.
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In my own opinion, I think paper trading doesn't give you the right skill set of trading stocks.\n\nPratice using your own money - but only a little bit - and only play with money you can lose. Then you will know how real excitment is when you're winning, and how down and depressed you can feel if your stocks are down. Emotions play a large part in share trading. Not so much in stock investing.\n\nYou need to know your fundamentals but as a trader, charting and technical indicators are much more important.\n\nIt is good that you are mathematical and analytical. Gives you a higher chance of succeeding.\n\nWhat you need next are discipline in your trading and controllin emotions.
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Whoah!  Hold the bus!  The advice that includes gregarious reactionaries and traders like Cramer or commodities needs to be held off with the proverbial "ten-foot pole."\n\nGo to CNN Money, Motley Fool, MSN Money, Netscape Investing etc. which will give you a clear, comparatively safe starter advice.  Ask your broker (I recommend Scottrade, sharebuilder, or schwab) about some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like Diamonds or Spydrs or the like--these let you buy a cheap sampling of the Dow Jones Industrials or the Standard & Poors 500, comparatively safe but still very good, profitable companies.  They are about as sexy as steak and potatoes, but they are as substantial as steak and potatoes.  \n\nAs for individual companies, first--does it make a profit?  As for any other features, news, or events, first, does it make a profit?  Second, does it have a triple-digit price to earnings ratio?  Then there are too many people thinking it will be big and it won't likely be big enough to please them all.  If you divide the profit by number of shares (most stock sites will give this information for free, usually doing the arithmetic for you), and the result is higher than 30-something, stay away.  If the number is a negative number, go back to the other rule, first, does it make a profit.
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Not that I'm convinced that any tools help an investor trade, but I don't see much at this site that I like. But then I'm not a trader, I'm an investor. I won't invest in a single stock anymore as I learned my lesson the hard way, only once and it wasn't a big deal but that's all it took. Then I went to Morningstar, enrolled in their education workshop, I think they call it Personal Learning or something like that. Took every course they had to offer and I still read almost daily newlestters from them. In addition when it comes to mutual funds I simply like low cost, no-load, long tenure management, top notch Total Returns, and because of that I like reading msn moneycentral and look for Jim Jubak and others. But even here be cautious as even the best of the best have bad year returns once in awhile, link #1:\n\nThen watch MOFQX, I'm not saying to buy it but it is the most interesting mutual fund I've ever heard of. It's a relatively new fund and it is quirky but what an idea. And it is still climbing. Who knows. Read, read, read and then sleep on it. If you want the really easy way out, go with TRowe Price or Vanguard's Life Strategy style funds. They match your risk with your age and they are the cheapest arounf. Other than that if you will promise yourself to keep up with the markets, ETF's are great but only if you drop all you are going to at once as trades dimish your returns because of trading fees. Good luck.
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Hi Alra,\n  I am assuming that you are here in the USA. If so I would highly recommend DRIPS, Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs), if only because of the small amount of cash you have available, you cannot afford to be paying ANY commissions, they will eat through your $200 like a hot knife through butter at room temperature. With DRPS you are buying the stocks directly from the company itself without paying those commissions. I would also suggest that you add a set amount of dollars every month to your holdings. Only pick stocks that you have checked out and believe in, especially those that make products you buy and use and like. Look at this for the long term, gradually your account should increase in value. Then you are able to take some of those profits and trade riskier stocks through a regular trading account. \nGood luck and don't forget to watch Jim Cramer's Mad Money on CNBC    BOOYA
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there are stock clubs located all over the country that you can get involved with as a newcomer.  meetings are held on a regular schedule, the group pools money and everybody is given certain companies in different sectors to do research in,  the groups usally vote in what they invest in, and all members share inthe profit/loss of the trades.  other than that take a basic class, start with mutual funds, and keep a few dollars to have fun with and buy stock you have done more than listen to the gossip about