Good percentage to buy, and short stocks?

Question

Recently, my dad has been teaching me about the stock market. I have done paper trading, and I have done pretty successfully. I have a Scottrade account set up, and I have some of my stocks ready. All I need to do is to put the money in the account. I just need a percentage of some stocks to hold, and some stocks to short. Please give me an answer soon.

Answer 1

I also am starting out.  I do not hink there is a certain persentage, at least nmot in this market at this time.  If anything , my view, is I do not sopend anymore then I can afford tolose, I do not invest much, and I am going to try to keep some cah on the sidelines in case something goes down that I want to buy.,  My husband says cash should be on hand, some ofd it, at all times.

Answer 2

short financials

buy and hold oil, chemicals, solar, coal, gold (its a good time to buy because of a recent pullback of these stocks)

Answer 3

Before you "trade" or even invest there are four major items that you need to consider and have in place

1 - A written sound trading/investment plan with rules that will not only help you but more importantly protect you, mostly from yourself.

2 - Sufficient trading/investment capital.  Use your own money, there’s no need to go into debt so that you trade/invest.

3 - A written money management program in place.

4 – A full and complete understanding of the rules & regulations of the industry.

Without having more information about your personal information, such as age, current income and other data such as risk tolerance, martial status, and demographics it would be very inappropriate for me or any other person to provide specific investment information in this type of media

Take a look at websites like MSN Money and Yahoo Finance.  (http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp http://finance.yahoo.com/ )

At MSN following the strategy lab analysts to get a feel for what the pros are doing and why.  You can use the 'stock" tab and this will provide you research, the top 10 & 50 selections

You can also visit .http://www.rookiedaytrader.com/default.a...

http://investorshub.advfn.com/default.as...

http://www.thestreet.com

http://www.brokerage101.com/

http://www.1source4stocks.com/

Answer 4

It depends of your risk tolerance.

It also depends on market conditions.

There is no fixed rule.

Answer 5

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