If I want to begin investing is Ameritrade a good way to go?
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They have a good reputation.  Before you begin investing, start saving money into a savings account and read more about investing and its many options.  Books like "Investing for Dummies" are away a good start to understand how to do it right.
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Congratulations on getting started. It’ll help you more than you know!\n\nHow to invest depends on what you already know. We'll assume that you're beginning.\n\nA good primer is How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil. You can get it cheap just about anywhere. It’s widely available new or used.\n\nAnother good one is one of Jim Cramer's books. \n\nBut books will only get you so far. At some point, you'll also want to get at least a little training. There are some great education companies if you want to make the investment. Investools.com or optionetics.com are both very good companies as is tmitchell.com\n\nFor free, you can start by visiting thestreet.com. That'll get you a pretty good primer so at least you'll understand what the markets are and what a stock is, etc. If you get a chance, watch Mad Money on CNBC. Don't trade any of his picks. Just use the show to get you to understand some basics and get a feel for the market itself.\n\nNext, subscribe to something like investorsbusiness daily or something like that that can help you identify good stocks.\n\nDo a quick search (at the top of the page) on ROTH IRAs. You’ll want to put some money in there.\n\nOnce you understand stocks, go to 888options.com. It's a website that'll help you understand options (what they do, how they work, etc). You don't need to trade them, but the more you know, the more you'll see how options can really be the safest way to invest (once you're educated).\n\nAs you get more advanced, you might want a technical analysis book like Murphy's Visual Investor or A Technical Analysis Course by Meyer.\n\nIf it's discipline (which is crucial to successful trading), probably Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas or Mastering the Trade by John Carter\n\nI know that’s a LOT to absorb. Just take it one step at a time for now. Start slow, then as you figure things out, move out of mutual funds into ETFs and/or stocks.\n\nCongrats again on getting started. If you have any questions, please let me know. \n\nHope this helps!
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Assuming you live in the US investing in the share (stock) market is as simple as:\n1. Opening a brokerage account with one of the brokerage firms such as Wells Fargo, TD WaterHouse, Ameriprise with a deposit of say $1000 and start buying and selling shares online.\n2. Initially you could buy shares upto your deposit amount\n3. As you build assets you will be eligible to borrow against your assets and buy stocks on margin even if you don't have cash in the account. This is a risky strategy and should be employed by experienced investors
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Go with scottrade. I have an account and you can't beat $7/trade. They also have offices all over the US.\n\nSharebuilder charges about $15.95 for real time trades. They also have a program where you can "dollar cost" average into a stock. Say you want to invest $50/month into Apple, $25/month into ebay, and $10/month into Starbucks. It'll cost you $4/month/"automatic transaction". You can also subscribe to their package deals where they give you 20 automatic transactions for $20. 6 trades/month for $12. The trick though is..you have to invest the same day every month and they execute the trade. You have no control over when (morning/afternoon or time). This is fine if you want to accumulate stock.\n\nI do like eTrade for their interface but their trades are $15 unless you do X trades a month and the price goes down...but for a small investor, it's cheaper to go with the $7 trades at Scottrade
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It depends. Please give the details of the INVESTment OPPORTUNITYies for my PERUSEal and EVALUATEion. You can e-mail me at: romy472000@yahoo.com. thanks.
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Whoah!  Hold the bus!  The advice that includes gregarious reactionaries and traders like Cramer or commodities needs to be held off with the proverbial "ten-foot pole."\n\nGo to CNN Money, Motley Fool, MSN Money, Netscape Investing etc. which will give you a clear, comparatively safe starter advice.  Ask your broker (I recommend Scottrade, sharebuilder, or schwab) about some Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) like Diamonds or Spydrs or the like--these let you buy a cheap sampling of the Dow Jones Industrials or the Standard & Poors 500, comparatively safe but still very good, profitable companies.  They are about as sexy as steak and potatoes, but they are as substantial as steak and potatoes.  \n\nAs for individual companies, first--does it make a profit?  As for any other features, news, or events, first, does it make a profit?  Second, does it have a triple-digit price to earnings ratio?  Then there are too many people thinking it will be big and it won't likely be big enough to please them all.  If you divide the profit by number of shares (most stock sites will give this information for free, usually doing the arithmetic for you), and the result is higher than 30-something, stay away.  If the number is a negative number, go back to the other rule, first, does it make a profit.
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I just wanted to share my experience using the FreedomRocks \nFOREX Trading System. I’ve been using the system for several months now and have averaged around 20-30% ROI on a monthly basis.\n\nI LOVE earning interest daily, especially when I can earn interest on 400 Times my money! Its great watching my balance grow each and every day\n\nBenefits of the FREEDOMROCKS SYSTEM:\n• Requires no prior trading experience \n• Requires no research \n• No charts or graphs to read \n• Analyzes your positions and provides you BUY & SELL points\n• Not having to really understand and just let the software do 95% of the work for you\n• Practice with live trades in the market, without risking a penny \n• No cost to utilize a trading platform for execution of trades.\n• Includes step-by-step instructions and screenshots showing exactly what your trades will look like \n• Takes just a few minutes per week to manage a portfolio of any size \n• Provides structure to your trading approach, helping you set up a balanced portfolio & suggesting BUY & SELL points for your positions. \n• The Simplicity of a "set it and forget it" type of approach to trading without having to watch multiple charts on my monitor on an ongoing basis\n• Alerts you by text message or email when your trades execute, so there is no need to monitor your progress throughout the day and there is no risk of you missing a trading opportunity. \n• Allows you to balance your portfolio to earn varying rates of interest on your account. \n• BEST OF ALL YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR A FREE DEMO ACCOUNT TO TEST THE SYSTEM OUT FOR YOURSELF!!\n\nCheck out www.simple4xinvesting.com\n\nTo Get Your Free Demo Account, CLICK ON: Get Started (Customer-Free Trial)\n\nTo Your Success!\n\n-Chris Thomas\nPh: (541)554-8140\nwww.simple4xinvesting.com
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Dude, you need to check out what is called an indexed mutual fund. The way it works is the company guarantees your full invested capital; so you can't lose that. The money that they make is added to the value of your fund, but you have to lock it in for a minimum amount of time; can be as long as ten years. This is a good place to start out. If your feeling more daring invest in silver or mining companies like Pan American Silver trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker PAA. This baby is on rails right now, you can check them out on their web site and research their history. Hey your the blunt guy aren't you? Well good luck towards your first million and keep living the American dream.
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None.  IMHO, you should start by learning how to invest, determining WHAT to buy through Fundamental Analysis and determining WHEN to buy with Technical Analysis. \n\nIMO, newsletters only make narrow recomendations based on their system of analysis and investment strategies, and often they are compensated heavily for their recomendations and therefore dangerously biased.   I firmly believe that to get a clear picture about any stock, and to determine whether you're actually going to invest in it, it's best to do your own research and adapt a system that meets your investment needs, style and risk level.  There are many stocks ripe for the picking just about at any time if you know how and where to look.\n\nStart with Investors.com, it's William O'Neil's online version of Investors Business Daily.  The How To Invest section is the best place to start learning the importance of Fundamentals and the basics of Technical Analysis.   The site has the IBD 100, a cross index list of the market leaders, the Stock Checkup, a great tool for checking fundamentals on any stock, and articles and analysis of stocks and general market conditions.  They also run various screens every day which in addition to the other lists, (IBD100, New America, stocks under $10, CANSLIM select, ect) are very helpful for finding investment ideas with solid Fundementals that are ready to move.  The CANSLIM method alone is a very successful and popular trading system, but I prefer to use a combination of Fund & Tech Analysis, rather that just the rating system alone.\n\nFrom there you can move on to more detailed study of Technical Analysis.  \n\nStart with StockCharts.com, they have an excellent free Chart School which helpfully explains various chart patterns and Technical Indicators and overlays.  Pay particular attention to the Chart Patterns section, and make sure you learn about Zig Zag patterns, Bollinger Bands, Moving Average, Volume, RSI, the MACD (Mac-D), The Williams %er, Stochastics, and the Chaikin Money Flow.  Sounds complicated, but when you start chart reading you'll want about a half a dozen or so of these overlays and indicators.  I personally rely heavily on the ZIG-ZAG, MACD, Chaikin Money Flow, Volume, Moving Average and RSI.\n\nStockTA.com is also an excellent Technical Analysis site, with charted Fibonacci resistance and support lines and will tell you if the stock is bullish or bearish in the short, medium and long run.  The site also has an extensive Candle Pattern Glossary and a fantastic technical screener.\n\nThe above sites do have premium services, but all the services I mentioned are free.  After you've absorbed some of the Technical information, do some reading on Fibonacci numbers and Elliot Wave theory, there are good links in the "School" section of StockTA.com.  I've been using Elliot Wave and Fibonacci's to help refine my in and out points.  StockCharts.com's "ZigZag" overlay helps me plot and count the waves and that helps determine where I am in the overall pattern.  \n\nSo basically I'll find interesting stocks through the screens on Investors.com or StockTA.com, run them through the Stock Checkup at Investors.com, if they measure up I'll run them through the Analyisis & Fib Analysis at StockTA.com and do an extensive chart study, examining the 2 yr, 1 yr, 6 mth, 3 mth, 1 mth & 5 day.  I'll also do my due dilligence, studying the profile, key statistics, headlines, etc. through Yahoo Finance and web searches.  If it all measures up and the stock is in a base or in a pull back and it's starting a wave 1 or wave 3, it's time to buy.\n\nRemember, always protect your downside with a stop loss or a trailing stop loss.  Once you have absorbed a few of the things I've mentioned, the fog will begin to lift and you'll start seeing which stocks should be bought or sold and you'll be able to do your own analysis on any stock, no matter where
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Sure, there a number of ways.  If you're 18 or over, you can start up a brokerage account pretty easily and invest that way.  If you're under 18, you could still do it using a custodial account.  Those are probably the easiest.\n\nOptionally, you could start putting money into retirement accounts, such as Roth IRAs, which have tax benefits.
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The stock market is ok, however look into managed foriegn exchange. There is a great company called Compass Financial Solutions located in Lakewood, CO. Totally ligite.\nAlso, look into a homebased business. The best one I have seen in my last 25 years is YTB International. It is a travel business. I am involved and it has been incredible!I no longer work for anyone else. You have to check it out. www.novaktravel.com and www.howifiredmyboss.com, you won't be disappointed.
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If you know nothing about the stock market and have a lot of money to invest the $4200.00 price tag for wizetrade or any of the other such tools out there may be worth it.  But then again if you don't know anything about the market you should stick to mutual funds.
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1) Open a brokerage account at ameritrade.com\n2) No\n3) Yes (But that makes no sense because you need to pay $10.99 to buy it and another $10.99 when you sell it)
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beginnersinvest.about.com and earlyearners.com\nTwo websites you can check out. Best way to start investing is to just by setting aside a small about each week or month i.e. 25.00/week and letting it set in a savings account until you find a certain investment you would like. Whatever you do make sure that the investment is something you are comfortable with. And whatever anyone tells you nothing will guarantee a return except goverment obligations such as government issued bongs and banks. OTher than that there is risk. However risk isn't necessarily bad. Just research before you buy.
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Try investopedia.com.  They have a great way of explaining the ways of the stockmarket.  They also have tutorials and an investing game thats allows u to virtually buy stock and sell American and Canadian stocks in real market conditions.  You are gived USD 100,000 to start off with and its upto u how u grow it.  This is a great learning process. And best of all, all of this is free on ivestopedia.com.  So why not give it a shot?!?!?
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I believe that you do not have to be an American to invest in American stocks. First get a stock broker, you may want one in your area so you can meet with him and talk about your financial goals. Through the brokerage company, who your stock broker works for, (i.e. Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch...) they should be able to pay out your dividends/profits in your currency, Euros. The fees are generally a percentage of what you buy and sell. If you buy $1000 in stocks, they may charge 5% for example and if you sell off some stocks a couple years later, they will take a small percentage of the amount you are selling off. If you are looking for long term investments, I'd suggest a mutual fund over stocks, but both are still gambles on the economy. If you want something really secure, but will yield more than a savings account, I would say put it in an IRA. But of course I don't know how it works in Europe. GOOD LUCK!
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Start by learning How to invest, determining WHAT to buy through Fundamental Analysis and determining WHEN to buy through Technical Analysis. \n\nStart with Investors.com, it's William O'Neil's online version of Investors Business Daily.  The How To Invest section is the best place to start learning the importance of Fundamentals and the basics of Technical Analysis.   The site has the IBD 100, a cross index list of the market leaders, the Stock Checkup, a great tool for checking fundamentals on any stock, and articles and analysis of stocks and general market conditions.  They also run various screens every day which in addition to the other lists, (IBD100, New America, stocks under $10, CANSLIM select, ect) are very helpful for finding investment ideas with solid Fundamentals that are ready to move.  The CANSLIM method alone is a very successful and popular trading system, but I prefer to use a combination of Fund & Tech Analysis, rather that just the rating system alone. \n\nFrom there you can move on to more detailed study of Technical Analysis. \n\nStart with StockCharts.com, they have an excellent free Chart School which helpfully explains various chart patterns and Technical Indicators and overlays.  Pay particular attention to the Chart Patterns section, and make sure you learn about Zig Zag patterns, Bollinger Bands, Moving Average, Volume, RSI, the MACD (Mac-D), The Williams %er, Stochastics, and the Chaikin Money Flow.  Sounds complicated, but when you start chart reading you'll want about a half a dozen or so of these overlays and indicators.  I personally rely heavily on the ZIG-ZAG, MACD, Chaikin Money Flow, Volume, Moving Average and RSI. \n\nStockTA.com is also an excellent Technical Analysis site, with charted Fibonacci resistance and support lines and will tell you if the stock is bullish or bearish in the short, medium and long run.  The site also has an extensive Candle Pattern Glossary and a fantastic technical screener. \n\nThe above sites do have premium services, but all the services I mentioned are free.  After you've absorbed some of the Technical information, do some reading on Fibonacci numbers and Elliot Wave theory, there are good links in the "School" section of StockTA.com.  I've been using Elliot Wave and Fibonacci's to help refine my in and out points.  StockCharts.com's "ZigZag" overlay helps me plot and count the waves and that helps determine where I am in the overall pattern. \n\nThe way I personally work is, I'll find interesting stocks through the screens on Investors.com or StockTA.com, run them through the Stock Checkup at Investors.com, if they measure up I'll run them through the Analyisis & Fib Analysis at StockTA.com and do an extensive chart study, examining the 2 yr, 1 yr, 6 mth, 3 mth, 1 mth & 5 day.  I'll also do my due dilligence, studying the profile, key statistics, headlines, etc. through Yahoo Finance and web searches.  If it all measures up and the stock is in a base or in a pull back and it's starting a wave 1 or wave 3, it's time to buy. \n\nRemember, always protect your downside with a stop loss or a trailing stop loss.  Once you have absorbed a few of the things I've mentioned, the fog will begin to lift and you'll start seeing which stocks should be bought or sold and you'll be able to do your own analysis on any stock. \n\nIf it's all too daunting or confusing, stick with it, it takes time to absorb.  Start by paper trading.  Yahoo Finance lets you track portfolios for free, try picking a couple stocks and see how they do.  Be realistic with your buy and sell prices if you paper trade, seeing for example if you can actually get in at the price you want during intraday trading.  If Mutual Funds are more to your liking, the same principles mentioned above can be applied to those as well.\n\nGood luck, hope it helps.