Where would you recommend a beginner start investing?

Question

I just want to buy 2 shares

Answer 1

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,

The first book you should read is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Then try some of these

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

Trading For a Living by Alexander Elder

Mastering the Trade” by John Caster

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

The Disciplined Trader by Mark Douglas

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/



Most reputable brokerage firm's have minimum dollar requirements for opening an account.  Usually two shares would be below most minimums.

Learn what you should be doing, how to do it, then you'll know where to do it.

Answer 2

I think you should buy more shares from a dividend paying stock and just sit back and collect the dividend because if you do enough research and find good stable company lets say colgate(people always brush teeth), colgate have a long history of  raising their dividend and dividend have little to do with the stock price even if the stock crashes you can just sit back and colect the dividend every 3 month.

Answer 3

I´ve been investing for more than 20 years and trading for almost 14, and I can tell you that if you want to make BIG and FAST profits, I recommend you trading rather than investing, trading can help you to go from rags to rich.

If you are investing, you must have already achieved some degree of financial success, long term stock investing and FOREX can help you become much richer than you are today.

My experiences as a Nasdaq Market Maker, Head trader of several brokerage firms, and currently as a professional trader and private hedge fund manager, I can suggest you that:

We trade because we want quick, short term profits on a consistent basis. We want to cash flow the market. Milk it like a cow.

Make consistent, small, short term gains rather than trying to hit a home run on every trade. Don't ever forget that.

Don't marry a stock, marry the idea of making money trading stocks. That's the only way to do it.

For me "All stocks are equally worthless”

I don't hold on to any illusion that the stock market will continue to go up and provide a nice retirement for me.

I could care less which way the market goes. It's irrelevant to me if the market goes higher, crashes or moves sideways for the next 50 years. I really could care less. Stocks are just four letters with two prices next to them that I use to make a living trading.

Trade ONLY when you have a clear, easy and identifiable advantage, because without a CLEAR EDGE your odds of success are NO better than a flip of a coin… That´s why so many new traders (and investors) lose money.

Take a look at any daily chart of any index or stock and you'll probably see the most volatility and the biggest opportunity for profit during the first Hour of the stock market's opening.

The popular thinking and conventional wisdom is that you should wait about an hour before you start trading.

But if you do, you'll miss the big, fast moves that stocks make as all the amateurs let their emotions out through their

online accounts, usually right after they read some news headline or hear Maria Bartiromo go off about a stock on CNBC.

It's easy to see why trading the open is the market's prime time for profiting from other online traders.

The market's open is very volatile - that is the perfect environment for LARGE, FAST profits.

Learn to trade as a professional Market Maker ,not as an emotionally driven amateur trader or investor with few thousand dollars in an account at Etrade.

There isn't any other time during the day or any stock you can invest in, that can make you 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or more points

in minutes OTHER than during the first hour the stock market is open. That's why I love trading the open so much.

I trade only when I have an edge and that means "only the first hour the market is open".

If you are a beginning trader, you can give yourself an unfair advantage in the market trading this way.

I can carry on with the advises about how to make money trading, but if you ask me:

"What is the best thing you can do for me?

I will say:

Give yourself a BIG favor and go to this "Top Secret" site and learn how to get the BEST stocks that will make the largest and fastest day trading profits you´ve ever seen, all by yourself...

www.onehourtrading.com

After you review this site you won´t need system, strategy, book, software or mentor to tell you what to do,

you will be able to profit HUGE every day.

Good luck and good trading,

John Fontaine

Answer 4

I would actually recommend you open an account with Edward Jones.  EJ doesn't have any of their own products so there's no question about conflict of interest.  And your Advisor will take time to explain things and offer suggestions.

I personally really like several of the American Mutual Funds.

Answer 5

2 shares of what? Well, it doesn't matter.. it sounds like a minimal investment.. the only place I know with no minimum is sharebuilder.com. Check out my site too for a newbie investment guide that will help you. good luck

Answer 6

Well, if you have a 401k plan at work, you should consider that first, especially if your employer will match your contribution. Then, you may have four shares!

Second, if you are planning to continue investing (I am guessing you aren't just doing this one time), then by using mutual funds you will actually be able to get fractional shares of a bunch of companies, which helps to reduce your risk.

Of course, if you just want the experience of buying two shares of stock, I think you have already received some good suggestions for discount brokerage accounts. How about two shares of Google? You will only need about $1,100 for that!

If you are going to be continuing to invest more money in the future and you do decide to contribute to your 401(k) plan, I would strongly recommend that you check out our free Investment Strategy Guide at InvestmentCoaching.net for some more detailed help.

Have fun and I hope you make lots of money!

Answer 7

only if you are buying brka or brkb