What can you learn from investing in stock market?
There is a difference between what one can learn and what one does learn. For me, I learned the hard way to cut ones losses rapidly, take a little of your profits off the table after a significant rise in stock prices, avoid high PE stocks like the plegue, avoid speculative stocks for the most part, avoid tech stocks also for the most part, put a fair portion of you money into index funds and mutual funds so you don't have to spend too much time baby sitting it, try not to have more than 30 stocks in your portfolio because it takes too much effort to keep track of them, keep weeding out the underpeformers and replacing them with stocks with greater potential. Alway have a healthy cash reserve and add to it as stock prices rise, so that when they drop you can take advantage of the situation.
How can I learn how to invest in stocks?
Like many you also want to be an investor in the stock marketFirst thing first I would like to congratulate you that the decision you have made is the decision made by very few and those few are the richest people in the world . Stock market is like a game , those who practice it a lot are the ones who wins it a lotSo if you want to learn the way of investing in stock market than you have to follow the way followed by the elite of stock market and that way can be learnt from the booksBefore continuing any further I want to tell you that till today I am also an amateur. As I have been investing of my own only from last 3 years but I was able to find good companies and get return which is much better than the return given by the best mutual fund houses . So the way I am going to tell you is the way followed by meThe way to learn is READING yes you read it correct it's READING . Just read the books that are written on the teachings of the stock market elites . I will mention the books I have and these one definately helped me so they can do the same for you too. And try to not just read them but try to fall in love with these booksTHE SECURITY ANALYSIS is the first book written on the way to do equity research and is forwarded by the great investor WARREN BUFFETThis book THE WARREN BUFFET WAY tells us his approach to a company in which he will investTHE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR is the layman's copy for the book SECURITY ANALYSIS . As SECURITY ANALYSIS is too much in detail so it doesn't suit the layman so THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR WAS WRITTENThis book by NICOLAS DARVAS is theMost simple book I have ever read on stock market investment . although it doesn't guarantee that you may earn 2 million or not but you can end up earning even more or less than that . But this book will give you the easiest way to find the stocks to invest
Teen Investing in stock market???
You can't open an investment account in your own name for another year until you are 18. I recommend you take that time and learn all you can about the stock market, so when you are ready you can get started right away. www.investopedia.com is a good place to start. Look at all their beginner articles and tutorials to get started. If you don't like research and reading, don't get involved with stocks. Investopedia also offers a "Stock Market Simulator", which is basically a game that simulates the real stock market. It lets you trade stocks with fake money just to see what it is like, and you can test to see if you know what you are doing or not yet. I saved up $8,000 from my first minimum-wage job before I opened my investment account, but you can likely get by on $5,000. I wouldn't start with much less than that. Don't invest in "hot tips" you hear from people, they're normally wrong. Look into the information for yourself to see if it's a stock you want to buy. Buy solid companies, don't get involved with penny stocks. If you want to cut down your risk since you will likely only have enough for 1 or 2 investments (after that the commissions will start taking a big chunk out of your gains,) I would invest into an ETF (index). It is a group of several stocks in a particular industry, so there is less risk. For example you can invest in a "Gold" ETF and own several big gold companies, or a bank ETF to own many well-known banks. The best advice I can offer is to do the reading and learn the basics for yourself though. Read the articles on investopedia.com, watch the business news on TV, ask your dad about the stock market and how it works if he invests.
Im 16 - I want to invest in the stock market, but I don't know where to start?
One option would be to set up an account at an online brokerage like Scottrade or TDAmeritrade or E-Trade or Sharebuilder. Since you are a minor, you would probably have to work with your parents to set up a custodial account called a UTMA. They would control the account until you are 18 or 21, at which point the ownership would transfer to you. The best way to learn is to have some skin in the game. You could start out with safer investments like index funds or the stocks of large companies. And then buy other things when you are more comfortable. But really you have to realize that there is always a chance you could lose money in the stock market. As far as access to money, that's a little more difficult. Usually you would need a checking or savings account at a bank from which you would transfer money to and from your account. But usually this might take 1-3 days to transfer. If this is money that you're going to need to access quickly and will be constantly withdrawing, I'm not sure I'd recommend investing it because of this. In my opinion you should recognize that any money you put into an investing account will sitting in there for a while - it's more for long-term money you won't need in the short term. If you always need immediate access to your money, you might have to just stick to a checking or savings account (safer, but the interest you get from it will be very low).
18 year old investing in stock market?
im 18 and want to start investing. what are some good companies that i should buy stocks in? i want to hold on to it for about 2 years. my first buy will be with 150 dollars. im looking for companies with less than 25 dollars a share. any advise? thanks
I know nothing about stocks but I want to learn and invest. Where would I start?
Where can I find the best information to read about? I want to learn what everything means and how to invest and the best way to invest. When I say I know nothing about the stock market, I mean NOTHING! I see a bunch of letters and numbers jump around...that's it. Any and all information would be a start!