And that’s it, but that doesn’t mean you will make money in the stock market. In this case I will assume you want to make money so there are extra steps that need to be taken.

To make money from stocks you need to:
a) Find a company that is either starting out or is in an economic slump
-the stock prices should be low at that time
-a good example is Ford way back during the economic crisis and stocks were under $2
b) Research the company
-who is the ceo?
-does the ceo have experience with running a business?
-how good is the companies business plan?
-will the company thrive or go under?
-these are some good questions to ask. When I bought my Ford stock, I knew the government wasn’t going to let Ford go out of business and I researched and saw that the new ceo that was put in charge was put in situations like this before and saved companies from going out of business.
c) Decide how much you will invest
-how much can you afford to lose?
-how strongly do you believe in the company?
d) Talk to a stock broker
-fees will be charged with investing in stocks
-the lower the fees, the more you can invest
e) Watch the stock market and check your stock price every day
-when you buy at a low price, you can sell at a high price for bigger profits
-don’t gamble for the jackpot! earlier this year, I could have sold my Ford stock for $18 share making a big profit considering i bought the stock at $2 a share and invested $1,000 for 500 shares. I was going to wait for it to hit $20 a share but it dropped quickly to $14 a share and now it is less than $10 because of the crisis in Europe and the amount of Ford cars sold there dropped.
f) If everything was done correctly, talk to your stock broker to withdraw your money into your savings account.
-this is where you make your money
g) If things look like they are headed in a bad direction and your company might go out of business, talk to your stock broker quick and with draw your money before you lose all of it!
-when things settle out at a lower price you can re-invest if you think the company might recover.

Here is a good link on mutual funds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_fund

B.
Corporations oversee the trading of their stocks.

C.
Stocks are traded on respected stock markets which are regulated by governments.

D.
The United Nations regulates the trading of both stocks and bonds worldwide.

c

Stocks means shares of ownership. Say you buy a house, and you and your brother equally share the expense. So you agree to each equally have a share of the ownership. That’s shares of ownership.

Stocks is like that, only they are used where there are very many people with an ownership interest, and they may be buying and selling them all the time. For example in a big company, let’s say General Electric, many many people – hundreds of thousands – may own shares, and they don’t know each other, and these shares are being bought and sold all the time. Unlike you and your brother’s house shares, stocks are specially made to be easy to buy and sell without major paperwork hassles.

Stocks aren’t for rich bastards. They’re for anyone who wants to *own* productive assets. Many ordinary workers own stocks, because you don’t need a lot of money to buy them. They may be only a dollar or two per share.

Remember, by owning something that produces food, or clothing, or shelter, or transport, or communications, you are not doing society a disservice. You are not harming anyone. You could just *spend or waste* the money. The fact you don’t, that you put it into stocks is *good* for society, and for poor people, not bad.

The world economy is not going bad because stocks are falling. It’s the other way around. Stocks are falling, meaning the value of your house-share is going down, meaning the value of your house is going down, because *governments* are looting the economy, taking money from honest hard-working people, and *giving it away* to anyone they think will vote for them. Government is destroying capital by stealing (they can legalise their own stealing). It’s like government is going into your home, and taking away the curtains and paintings, or digging up the foundations. So your house is worth less. It’s not your fault for owning a house! Don’t blame stock-owners! It’s the government’s fault for looting you.

How is the government looting the economy? Three main ways;
1. by taxation
2. by inflating the currency = printing money = lowering interest rates
3. by borrowing money.
All these things *destroy capital*, and capital is what makes a country rich.

The solution is not to blame stock-holders, the solution is to stop government from taking other people’s property and wasting it on wars, handouts to billionaires, and interfering in everything.