Losing A Little Is Better Than Losing A Lot

As a beginner investing in the stock market you will need to understand that there will be times where you will have to take a loss. If you do your research and homework, you can avoid many of those experiences. Unfortunately there will be times where the markets will correct themselves after a major run up in stock prices. In those times, It prudent to take a small loss instead of sitting there watching a bigger one...

Beginner Investing: Free Stock Market Tools

The labor that a person puts in is only as good as the tools he uses to get the job done. With that said, I must also say that I’m enjoying the fruits of my labor. I’ve been trading for years now and I never traded in a bear market like the one in 2008. In the beginning of 2008 I had to learn to look for signs that I never really had to before and because of that I took a beaten during that time. I started to seek...

Beginner Investing: When Research Pays Off

I’ve come a long way since I was a beginner investing in the stock market. I’ve had to learn many things over the years and have some costly learning experiences along the way. I don’t want to scare any of you from taking charge of your finances with my last post, so this one is going to touch base on something that had made me a lot of money in a bull market. Earnings reports are quarterly releases that a...

Beginner Investing: Researching Stocks

When I first started as a beginner investing in the stock market, I was looking to hit it big and make a big score. Everything that I read pointed me toward trading penny stocks and how they can go up in value by 25%-50% in just one day. I worked with someone that had the trade of a lifetime. He was telling me that there was this company that was in the commodity sector (which in regards to penny stocks, means nothing) and...

Free Stock Market Site

Many times, being a beginner investing the stock market, you’re not sure where to go to get valuable and honest, straight-forward advice and information. In the years that I’ve been trading, I’ve made it a point to get my information from many different forms of media sources. Some have been great, others not do much. I also have several free (as well as paid) web sites memberships, I belong to different...