how can i be profit on stock trading?
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Not only you can profit from buying low and selling high - you can also profit from buying high and selling low! does that blow your mind? well welcome to the world of trading stocks for a living.\n\nTraders profit from the markets from following trends be it a short term trend that lasts for a day or a week or a longer term trend that lasts for weeks or months and even years.\n\nGood Luck!
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Invest in stocks to earn quick money.\nBut at the same time you have risk of getting losses in short term.
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Hi there,\n\nHere are a few sites that offer online training for trading and selling stocks:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/learn2trade2000/\nhttp://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Financial/Online_Trading_Course_......_Learn_to_Trade_Stocks_Going_Up_29986.html\nhttp://www.daytradeteam.com/dtt/
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Stock is ownership in a company. You buy shares of a company. Let's say Company A is worth $30.00 per share. You can buy however many shares at that price. Each day, the value of that share fluctuates (goes up or down).\n\nIdeally, you want to buy the shares at a low (cheap) and sell at a high (expensive).\n\nYou can earn the most money by investing in stocks, compared to bonds and money markets. (You can also lose a lot, so be careful.)
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Stock market!  You can invest in high risk or low risk stocks, it is up to you.  If you decide to do day trading or trade penny stocks, that is where the highest risk lies, but also the best profit can be made!
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I'm a trader myself and I successfully skim off a profit from market movements regularly for a living.\n\nOne of the books the other answerer mentioned was: One Up On Wall Street( By Peter Lynch) - A VERY GOOD BOOK if you are an investor but not a trader.\n\nI trade the forex markets as well as stocks. The only difference is that forex markets tend to move faster and are open 24 hours a day. \n\nThe successful and proven way of trading stocks is to formulate a trading plan and then stick to it. Don't let emotions rule your trade. Ride the trend - don't gamble against it. Use stop losses and the market is always right. Let your profits run and cut your losses\n\nThere is no secret to trading but greed for money usually kills off the amateur trader.
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Noone will teach you how to be a consistenly profitable trader, unless you can find a mentor who's a successful trader him/herself. Go to http://www.elitetrader.com for the list of books and reviews among other things.
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Open an online brokerage account with Ameritrade, Scottrade, Tradeking etc and buy shares for say 2000 USD. Sell it after you have gained atleast twice of commission (say 10*2) by looking at ur balances every day. It may go down initially butdon't lose heart on that. It eventually will go up (2min, 2days, 2 years...). Stock investing is basically finding a safe stock which doesnot give you a loss after your waiting period and investing in it. \nTo a beginner like you a safe stock could be EWD
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Hi,\nNever start with this low an amount. The fees would kill any profit you would make.\n\nMy advice is that a person should not invest less than $1000 in a stock. \n\nJust do the math : If you pay $8 per trade. Then you pay $8 to buy and $8 to sell. So you are spending $16 anyway. \n\nLet us say you invest $500 in HomeDepot and it appreciates 10% in 1 year. Then you make $50 - $16 = $34. Which is just 6.8%.\n\nInstead if you invest $1000. Then you make $100 - $16 = $84. Which is  8.4%.\n\nSo it is obvious that higher is your investment , lower is your fees. Based on my experience, $1,000 is a decent amount to start with on a stock.\n\nHave fun investing.\n\nDan.
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Depending on which country you're from you have many alternatives on how you can trade shares.\n\nYou can use plain shares, warrants, options, futures and CFDs.\n\nEach financial instrument has its own advantages and disadvantages.\n\nTo use plain shares you need heaps of capital.\n\nThe others are derivatives - or products that derive their value off the shares. These don't normally require as much money to gain a profit. But on the other hand potential losses are greater.\n\nYou should start by reading - reading a lot.\n\nThen by paper trading.
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Hi Alra,\n  I am assuming that you are here in the USA. If so I would highly recommend DRIPS, Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs), if only because of the small amount of cash you have available, you cannot afford to be paying ANY commissions, they will eat through your $200 like a hot knife through butter at room temperature. With DRPS you are buying the stocks directly from the company itself without paying those commissions. I would also suggest that you add a set amount of dollars every month to your holdings. Only pick stocks that you have checked out and believe in, especially those that make products you buy and use and like. Look at this for the long term, gradually your account should increase in value. Then you are able to take some of those profits and trade riskier stocks through a regular trading account. \nGood luck and don't forget to watch Jim Cramer's Mad Money on CNBC    BOOYA
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You have to add in any expenses you have to the basis of the stock (what you paid for it). It does not matter what you make. If you pd 1$ per share and paid a broker .50 per share and when you sell it for 2$ per share your profit is only .50. I hope this helps. Also you report that on schedule D remember your expenses are added to the cost
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hello fellow trader.you can find  anything you want regarding up to the second stock trading on ,you ready?\n\n www.tradingday.com    \n\nhave fun,no charge
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First, try trading virtual money on a Simulator real time at Investopedia.com\n\nLook into the Investor platform at TerraNovaOnline.com\nI think this one is free if you open an account there. I use the full-blown package called RealTick for $250/mo. The Investor platform is the same software, sized down to one screen. I use five monitors. This is very technologically advanced softwarefrom Townsend Analytics, the one that digitized the entire Nasdaq last year. Cutting edge technology. If you make some money, then definately upgrade to RealTick.
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Stocks don't always make money, that is the risk you take when you buy them.  You just hope you pick enough winners to make up for the losers in the long run.\n\nStocks don't have any memory, either...and neither should you.  What you paid for a stock last year has nothing to do with what is it worth today.  You need to forget about all that, and decide whether you think the stock will go up or not.  If not, sell it, and put your money in a better place.  It hurts, but if you can't do this, you don't belong in the stock market.
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Try http://www.etrade.com\n\nSimply put: you buy a part of the company looking to profit either in the long (investment) or short term (a short term trade).
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I use Scottrade.com, but you might want to also consider Sharebuilder.com.  \n\nIf you are looking for investment ideas, the first thing you should do is see what the best traders are buying and selling.  This is the idea behind http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx \n\nGood luck!