How to invest in the stock market?

	How to invest in the stock market? Okay so ive always wanted to but never really had the money to even get started, im 20 and in college and work during the summer... As of now i just got a job did the math and i should have about 1000-1500 dollars left after summers over, and well i dont really need this money to live through school because i get grants and get about 2000 to live off of so i would like to invest it i just dont know where to get started.... Also i might have more depends if i spend more then 4000 on a new car to save gas... I wont invest untill about end of july so i want to learn as much as possible till then Asked By: Mr Bored - 5/13/2011

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Standard investment advice is that you should invest in a diversified mix of stocks, bonds, and money market funds. If you are like most people you will invest part of your money aggressively in stocks, and part conservatively in money market funds and bond funds. However, some young people will go all stocks, and some very conservative people will go all money markets. The links below have on-line questionnaires which will give you an idea of how to do "Asset Allocation," determining how much to put in each type of investment. You want to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks as individual stocks are too risky. Highly knowledgeable people can buy a properly balanced portfolio, but most folks have a difficult time balancing things on their own. They will misbalance their portfolio by buying all small stocks or all growth stocks, or some other misbalanced assortment of stocks. Back in 2000, Some people bought all Internet stocks; they got burnt when they all crashed together. You have to diversify across industries. Unless you know what you are doing, it is best to buy mutual funds that will diversify for you. Buy no-load, low cost funds. Mutual funds should have expense ratios of less than 0.4? I like index funds. Because of their broad diversification, you are less likely to have a dramatic drop in value. They also have the lowest management fees. For stock funds, I like putting ~70?f one's money in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. and ~30?n the Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund. The Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund is good for a bond fund. The Vanguard Target Retirement funds can be a good all-in-one stock and bond funds for an IRA. You need $3,000 for most Vanguard funds. Since you are a bit short of that you should consider the Target Retirement funds that have a $1,000 minimum. There are many different opinions out there on what the best mutual funds are. Read the links below and form your own opinion. Once you have stared investing, you need to keep adding money on a regular basis. Many funds allow you to set up automatic investment programs that take a set amount of money out of your bank account each month. If your company offers a 401K plan at work, try to invest the most you can. The money grows tax free, and some companies will match your contribution. Investing in a mutual fund IRA is also a good idea. If you have children, you may want to consider a 529 plan or other college savings plan that grows tax free. If you have high-interest debt, like credit cards, it is best to pay this off first before trying most of the investment ideas above. You should also have 3-6 months of salary saved up as an emergency fund in a bank or money market fund before trying more risky investments. I will warn you that there is a tremendous amount of stock investing books and websites that teach stock investing strategies that don't work. Particularly bad are people that teach "technical analysis" systems that sound impressive, but don't work. Believing advice you get on Yahoo answers can be risky, so read these websites for further information. If you find it too confusing, contact a professional financial advisor. They will charge you significant commissions, however. Answered By: Joe - 5/14/2011

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To Start Investing It takes a long time to learn the stock market and it would help if you read some books from your library and information online. It would also help if you did some practice trading with play money. You can do this by using a watch list in Yahoo Finance > My Portfolio. Just pretend you bought some shares of your choice. No one can tell what you should invest in the market. You need to decide what's right for you at the present time. Before you start investing, the first thing you need to decide is what risk level you want to take. CDs backed up by the government has about 3-4?nnual return for the long term with a low risk. Bonds or Bonds Funds has about 5-7?nnual return for the long term with a medium risk. Stocks or Stock Mutual Funds has about 8-10?nnual return for the long term with a high risk and are more volatile than Bonds. A person can make more than 10?nnual return with the right investment. Usually the more risk you take, the more return you will have, but not always. The stock market is basally made up of stocks and bonds. Investment managers pick a group of stocks to make a mutual fund or a group of bonds to make a bond fund. They even put a mixture of stocks and bonds together and call it a Growth & Income Fund. 1- MUTUAL FUNDS: Mutual funds have a group of stocks (could be around 100+) invested in different sectors, and manage by a professional. Managers have lots of schooling for investing in stocks, around 8 years. So I think managers can pick stocks better than I can. There are lots of different kinds of mutual funds and they have different risk level. There are 100s of funds that does not charge any fees to buy it's shares and they are called Noload Funds. There are also some funds called Load Funds that charge about 5?f your investment. You can make a buy or sell order anytime of the day for mutual funds shares but it will not go in affect until the close of the day. Most funds has trading restriction and you may not be able to trade more than 4 times a year. That's because it makes it hard for the fund to make a good return if there is to much trading in the fund, causing the fund manager to make more buys and sells and keep more cash on hand. Mutual funds are meant for long term investors. 2- STOCKS: Stocks is more volatile than funds unless you spread you money in several different areas and know witch area will do best. There are 10 stock sectors and over 100 sub-sectors to choose from. Stock trading restriction is only a few days, not like mutual funds. If you own stocks, you will need to keep up with all the company's business so you don't get stuck with a bad stock. That could take a lots of time. If a person buys just a few stocks he probably is hoping to make a bigger return but he may be taking more risk. If that's the case, look at the leverage ETFs that represents a large group of stocks. That could be another choice. 3- ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds): ETFs are like a mutual fund but trades like a stock and that is the main differences between ETFs and stocks and mutual funds. There are some ETFs that represents Index's. An Index is like S&P or DOW. Index's operate just like a mutual fund with a group of stocks in deferent sectors, manage by professionals. You can't buy Index's because they are not for sell. A company owns them. But you can buy a mutual funds or an ETF that has the same stocks as the Index they represent. There are a lots of different kinds of ETFs for someone to choose from. There are some that represent almost every kind of sub-sector. And there are some that have 1x leverage, some have 2x leverage for aggressive investors, and some has 3x leverage for more aggressive investors. If you wish you had more money to invest, the 3x is like having three times the amount of your money in the market. You will make more in an up market but lose more in a down market. To buy stocks or funds, you need a broker account. You can open an account online or in a broker house and it is free to open. You can find several good discount brokers that charge $8.00 and under per stock trade and no fee on Noload Funds. If you only have a small amount of money to invest, it may be best to start in Noload Funds because of the broker fees. Most broker websites have good research tools. Some popular broker websites are Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, E-trade, Scottrade and others. You need a min. of $500 to open an account in Scottrade and $2,500 for Fidelity. Other sites may very on the min. and you need to be at lease 18 years old. If you not 18, you might could get your Dad to open an account for you. Self-taught from 24 years of experience. Answered By: Chief - 5/14/2011

First and foremost you have to have a goal - what exactly are you investing for? And for how long? And how much risk? What suits one person may not suit another, so you need to consider those carefully. You should also get rid of bad debt like credit cards first, and have at least 6 months set away for living expenses if you are on your own. Then you need to do some research. Start with some basic books to teach you the fundamentals. Two excellent reads are The Complete Idiot's Guide to Investing and Investing for Dummies. You can probably find them in your local library. You need to learn also some important concepts in investing, such as dollar-cost averaging and compound interest - two of your best friends to make money for the future. You then need to pick a company to invest through. Some of the best are Vanguard, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, and Schwab. Avoid the big banks no matter what. Don't let them rip you off with loads (sales charges) and fees. Check how much the company charges you as an expense ratio. A good one might charge you 0.2-0.8 ?If they charge more than 1?han go somewhere else. And if they charge any kind of 12b-1 fee, hold on to your wallet and run. If you want to get into the market but don't know what stock to pick, consider an index fund. Instead of throwing all your eggs into one basket (one company), index funds can invest you in dozens, hundreds, or thousands of companies all at once and so there is less risk. This protects you if any one company or industry runs into trouble. For bonds, the returns are less, but more solid. If you are thinking of retirement, consider a Roth IRA. Your money grows tax free, and when you retire you can withdraw it tax free as well. For stocks typically you are talking about at least a 5 year investment period. If less, consider getting into bonds or a bond fund instead. Many people choose an appropriate mix of the two. For more information, try looking at https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/all?sort=name&sortorder=asc and play with it, comparing funds with more or less risk. Do some reading online such as http://www.vanguard.com/us/insights for some important investment truths. Answered By: Never-Again - 5/14/2011

You should desist from buying stocks.Many young persons today are keen to buy stocks without knowing the reality.Reality is to buy stock is easy but which stock to buy is difficult unless you spend sufficient time to study the market and unless if you have sufficient patience which as a young man you will not have because you have lots of many more other important things to do.Please save money for your future plans and eventualities. Source(s): No one said this to me when I was young.but I strongly feel I should have been told. Answered By: ashok a - 5/14/2011

You could buy an income stock. That is my plan for a dear friend. How to invest is an answer that will come after mistakes and good picks. There will be both. Answered By: thomas p - 5/14/2011

The safest way is to open a portfolio account at a bank. They'll set you up with some mutual funds. However, the stock market is not that great right now, and then there's capital gains taxes, and fees for the funds, and blah blah blah. Unfortunately, it's pretty tough to get ahead these days. Answered By: Board - 5/13/2011

Is it very commendable that you want to learn about investing at your age. Of course, it should not take over your life, but it will be helpful throughout your life. First thing to learn is "NOTHING IS ALWAYS". Now, put $1400 in a savings account and take $100 to the book store and start with 2 books, "Understanding Wall Street" by Jeffery Little and Lucien Rhodes plus "One Up On Wall Street" by Peter Lynch. Take the balance of the $100 and have some fun. Then, read both through at least once, both are pretty good reading so it won't cause any permanent brain damage (occasionally a slight headache). You can skip the Options Section in the Understanding Wall Street book until much later. But once you have read these go by a couple of brokers offices and pick up some of their brochures and pamphlets, especially the ones that look interesting. Talk to one of the younger or newer brokers (they will be more available to help you learn) Keep putting available funds into the savings account until you get about $5,000 in there. At this point you can start saving to build up an investable sum, again about $5.000. The first $5,000 is your liquid emergency fund, and you will need it at some point. This fund goes up as you get older and take on more responsibilities (get married, have kids, etc.) I know this sounds boring (it is) so do some paper transactions to test your ideas. But remember, "investing is boring" if it's exciting you are doing something wrong, and that usually has a bad outcome. Trading is speculation and the can be exciting, but you should do that with your "Las Vegas" money, not your investable sum. Also. keep in mind that your always "invest" in companies" NEVER IN STOCKS, so do your homework (Yeah, another boring bit, but keep in mind that Warren Buffet is pretty much boring, if truth be told. (Sorry Warren, but you know it's true) At the point that your get your investable sum together, start your portfolio, keep in mind Peter Lynch's most important advice, "Invest in what you know". Mutual funds are a time management tool, but you are unlikely to ever hit a home run with a fund, no matter what their ads say, so if you want maximize your opportunity, you need to do some of the work yourself. And do not forget the opportunities close at hand, your brother-in-law might just know what he is talking about. So, best wishes and don't have to much fun. Source(s): 35 years as a Registered General Securities Principal, Registered Options Principal, Registered Municipal Principal, Investment Banking Representative, etc. Answered By: Bill - 5/13/2011

While you should learn as much as possible about investing, it is important to keep in mind that it is very difficult to beat the market. I recommend you read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street". You need to decide if you want to build a low cost diversified portfolio that will provide a reasonable level of protection from risk and you hold for the long term. Or you believe by actively trading you can get superior returns. I believe for the overwhelming majority of individual investors the first option is the correct one. One way you can get started in building a low cost diversified portfolio is through index funds. You can go to the Vanguard web site and open and account and start with the S&P500 fund as an example. By adding a fixed amount every month for your career, you will amass wealth in a low cost, tax efficient way. In addition since you are income averaging you will be buying more shares during the dips and less when the stock market is rising giving you extra protection. The S&P500 gives you access to the 500 largest companies in America which is clearly more stocks than you could buy individually. Over time you can add index funds for different counties and type of securities. Good Luck. Answered By: Kristin - 5/13/2011

A lot of investment groups offer savings funds that will invest in stocks and bonds for you, although you may not have enough to start with any of them. I have a Vanguard LifeStrategy fund and a Vanguard IRA account, although they require a minimum of $3000. If you think you'll need the money soon I would put it in a high interest CD or savings account. If the money is earned income you can start an IRA and start saving for the future. If you invest make sure you look at the fees! Fees can eat away at your money even if the account has a high return. I do not suggest investing in individual stocks, you'll constantly have to monitor them. Just remember those books people are suggesting are written about the same people who destroyed the economy not too long ago. Answered By: Bobby Crosby - 5/13/2011

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