How can I get started in individual stock investing?

Posted by admin on December 15th, 2009 and filed under stock investing | 5 Comments »

I’m 23 years old. I have enough spare $$ that I don’t care for losing it. So nobody depends on my money.

I have the time and motivation to research and learn.

So I’m looking for suggestions & tips of where to start.
I am fully aware of the potential rewards and risks involved.
I think apple’s stock is dependent on Steve Jobs’ health

I would suggest the first thing you do open an account and deposit your money with an online brokerage firm. It is here that you will eventually go to make your trades.

In the meantime while you learn, your money will earn interest and be available if a great thing comes your way.

You can read this post for a review of online brokers:
http://www.stocklocater.com/content/online-broker-review.html

Here is another great source where you can get a free report that shows how to open a brokerage account and how to place a trade:
http://www.volatilestocktrading.com

Once you know how to place a trade, the next thing you will need is stocks to invest in. Starting off, I recommend you get a mentor. Get someone who trades daily and let them teach you their secrets to trading stocks. I highly recommend you take this free offer:
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5 Responses

  1. 493N7 9OOD Says:

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    Also figure out if you are going to be a trader or are you in it for the long term or both. The kinds of stocks you pick will vary depending on your time horizon.
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  3. William B Says:

    I would suggest the first thing you do open an account and deposit your money with an online brokerage firm. It is here that you will eventually go to make your trades.

    In the meantime while you learn, your money will earn interest and be available if a great thing comes your way.

    You can read this post for a review of online brokers:
    http://www.stocklocater.com/content/online-broker-review.html

    Here is another great source where you can get a free report that shows how to open a brokerage account and how to place a trade:
    http://www.volatilestocktrading.com

    Once you know how to place a trade, the next thing you will need is stocks to invest in. Starting off, I recommend you get a mentor. Get someone who trades daily and let them teach you their secrets to trading stocks. I highly recommend you take this free offer:
    http://www.stocklocater.com/content/insider

    Not only will you get some great stocks (up 95% last week), but you’ll get to learn how to select stocks, various strategies for stocks investing and more.
    References :
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  4. Paul M Says:

    I started about 3 monts ago. I went through scottrade.com. 7 dollar trades. I’ve done perty good so far i’m up about 20 percent AAPL has made me quite a bit. I’d advise not going for stocks you haven’t ever heard of. I made two accounts an IRA and a Regular account. My IRA has some stocks that i’d never heard of, but i studied them, and some overseas stocks. One of the stocks that was a crusher was DRYS shipping company. I put a little bit into it and it turned out it wasn’t a very good stock afterwards. One crazy thing about the market is when your share price goes down and you lose 200-300 or even a thousand or more, you haven’t really lost. Those share prices can go right back up just as easily as they went down. Don’t sell out because the share price went down a little. I bought goog for 335/share and it sank down to 280. I lost a lot of money, but a week or so later it jumped right back up now it’s at like 360. I think it’s probably going to fall here in a week or so, but i don’t care I’m in for the long term.

    I’m not trying to advise you on what stocks to invest in, because i’m still new to this. But here are the stocks I’ve got in my Regular account. AAPL, GOOG, GE, S, RIMM, CIT I really don’t like CIT, and yes it does have a negative EPS, but i got it at such a cheap price that i don’t care. Also you get taxed 15 percent if you sale your shares before a year, and only 5 percent if you sale them after a year.

    I’ve got around 10 different ones in my IRA account.
    I’m trying to focus on dividend paying stocks now, because when i retire i don’t want to have to sell my shares to make money. I want to be able to live off the dividends.
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