The stockmarket????

Question

i was wondering if any of you guys can tell me everything u may know about the stock market. How exactly does it work? how much money should i put in in the beginning? what companies would you recomend i invest in? if anybody has anything to say, please let me know!!

Answer 1

Firstly -- get out of debt before you start investing.

Secondly -- it sounds like you should be doing more reading up -- like educating yourself.  No one here can give you the help you need because you need to not just LEARN the basics, but INTERNALIZE them...

Start with these two sites for your beginning... and set up a couple stock alerts in Yahoo.  Choose a company you know, and check on it daily and read all the news surrounding it buy setting up a news alert sent to your email... this will start to make you aware of all the factors that affect a company's stockprice. After you do this for a couple months... you'll start to know a few things...

Answer 2

You're not going to get a complete answers to your questions, since there is too much information that would be neeeded to respond properly

Before you invest in any security, the first investment you should make is in yourself, and the best investment you can make is by educating yourself.

Start your education by learning why you should invest and the importance of being able to make your own decisions or how the pro’s make theirs.

Here is some reading material that can get you started in the right direction,

What Works on Wall Street by James O'Shaunessey

Beating the Street by Peter Lynch

One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch

The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom

Mastering the Trade” by John Caster

How to Make Money in Stocks” by William O’Neil

Get into the habit of making daily visits to some websites like MSN Money and Yahoo Finance.  (http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp http://finance.yahoo.com/ )

While at MSN following the strategy lab analysts to get a feel for what the pros are doing and why.  This site has some basic information for beginners. If any site offers free information, take it.

Other website that can provide instructions and help with procedures and terminology are

Investopedia - http://www.investopedia.com/  Stock Charts - http://stockcharts.com/

http://www.investorshub.com/  http://www.1source4stocks.com/



Visit some of the more professional websites like Zacks - http://www.zacks.com/

Smart Money - http://www.smartmoney.com/  Schaeffer’s – http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/

Some of these web sites will have advertisers who are worth looking into also.  And remember, if they offer free information, get it.

Attend all the free seminars you can, just be careful and don’t get pressured into anything you really don’t want or need. Most schools offer courses in finance and economics, but very few will have courses on the mechanics of the investment markets, if they do try taking the course. You may want to consider on-line courses, the New York Institute of Finance use to have such courses.  Try to get some fee information from the stocks exchanges they all have (had) free booklets, SIAC and some of the regulators (FINRA SEC MSRB CBOE) may provide some free literature.

Answer 3

investing in stock market is a risky business. no one can guide u. first rule is decide how much your time horizon for investing. short term- medium term or long term. then find out how much risk u tolerate. adopt discipline investment strategy. stay with it. first thing u have to decide that how much want you to loose only than how much u expected earning. for these thing you have to make research and reading, consulting expert, get advise, and remember the final decision is yours. my experience is that internal hunch is more reliable than external advice.

Answer 4

Go to your local bank. Most of them have financial advisors that do not charge for consultations. If you decide to invest they will make their fee on what you purchase. Any good advisor will determine what your goals are, your time frame and your tolerance for risk before advising you what to buy. Mutual funds spread the risk and may be a better investment for you rather than a single stock or three or four stocks.

Answer 5

Hi dear i dont know whether u are aware of the stock market business or not coz investing in the stock market isnot a joke coz u never know what will the next minute bring on your face expression.

Well before that you should study the market

you know the general concept that the BSE first started in the year 1980's with the listing of 30 companies.Which are even known as the A grade companies.It started with an 100 points and today it has fetched above the 15000points look at the variation the 30 companies bought to the BSE.

Look i would advice you to buy Idea Cellular at 97/- for a target of 138/- and Crompton greaves .Reliance industries which has nice trading day today.

Answer 6

I play the stock market full time. I can because I am retired. Just my opinion here: don't you buy stocks untill you have studied the market and you have lots of time to observe the daily market aciton.

I like Investors Business Daily Newspaper for information and investment guidelines.

If you have no system of discipline investing you will lose your money.

Lean how to read charts and key fundamental statistics.

There are basicly four ways to play the market for individual stock trading:

1. Day trade which is buying and selling on the same day.

2. Swing trader or short term trader which is  holding your stocks less than one year. I am a swing trader and usually hold a stock for a swing between support and resistance price levels which can be a few days to few months.

3. Long term investor ( holding more than one year and up to many years ) like Warren Buffet.

4. Options - buying puts and calls.

Another way is buying mutual funds which is not quite as risky but even they can be very risky in any five year time period.

Making money in the stock market is very very hard. If you don't have the time and an intense interest stay away from buying indivdual stocks. Don't count on luck or hunches or advise from any media source to buy a stock at the time it is recommended. That includes newsletters, radio and TV personalities. Why because by the time you hear about how great it is, it is too late unless you have a long time frame for a return on your investment.

When you hear about a stock of company, document it in a spread sheet what you know about the company and watch the chart and do some research of your own.

The only thing that makes the market or an individual stock go up or down is an imbalance of money flow in and out of the market or stock. If there is more money going in to the market - the market goes up and vise versa. Right now there is more money going out so; the market is going down right now.

There is much to learn.