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Before the internet I used Money Magazine and Fortune and based on their reporting called the top performing mutual funds for prospectuses. Now you can go to those fund families websites and they have a lot of free info there. I also like Bloomberg.com and Finance.yahoo.com. Also watching CNBC you can learn a lot although a lot of the info is skewed to pump up investors to invest in the market when the fundamentals suggest it might not be such a good idea --- like with the banking sector.
Also nyse.com has loads of info. You can also do searches on YouTube for "day trading" or "stock market investing" and find some individuals that will share what they know on film clips. You can do the same searches on search engines and find sites with info. How about searching for "FREE or Low Cost Investor Education"?. Beware, some results will just be about the free introductory seminar for a very expensive and overpriced education like through "Investools" where they will charge you thousands of dollars for an education you could get for a few hundred elsewhere. I know I've been there done that. The book store has great books.
There are of course always the _____ for Dummies Series. They must have Investing for Dummies. I know they have Options trading for Dummies and Technical Analysis for Dummies
You can't learn everything you need to know from one book - THAT is for sure.
Before the internet I used Money Magazine and Fortune and based on their reporting called the top performing mutual funds for prospectuses. Now you can go to those fund families websites and they have a lot of free info there. I also like Bloomberg.com and Finance.yahoo.com. Also watching CNBC you can learn a lot although a lot of the info is skewed to pump up investors to invest in the market when the fundamentals suggest it might not be such a good idea --- like with the banking sector.
Also nyse.com has loads of info. You can also do searches on YouTube for "day trading" or "stock market investing" and find some individuals that will share what they know on film clips. You can do the same searches on search engines and find sites with info. How about searching for "FREE or Low Cost Investor Education"?. Beware, some results will just be about the free introductory seminar for a very expensive and overpriced education like through "Investools" where they will charge you thousands of dollars for an education you could get for a few hundred elsewhere. I know I've been there done that. The book store has great books.
There are of course always the _____ for Dummies Series. They must have Investing for Dummies. I know they have Options trading for Dummies and Technical Analysis for Dummies
You can't learn everything you need to know from one book - THAT is for sure.
Let me add to this INVESTOPEDIA.com is LOADED with educational tutorials
I highly recommend two books by Peter Lynch: "One Up On Wall Street" and "Beating The Street". They are both great reading and an excellent source of common sense investing advice for the beginning stock or mutual fund investor. MUST READS FOR BEGINNERS!
My simple suggestion is to look at some sites about
(a) choosing a portfolio based on your risk (E-trade and some sites have such tools). This is the most important step you will take - that is why I suggested looking at multiple sites. The rest is easy.
(b) going to some place like Vanguard to select low cost index funds that give you (a)
(c) Relax. With periodic reallocations, you will probably beat about 80% of the people who spend a lot of time studying about investing or buying/selling stocks etc.
Magazines like Money, Kiplinger etc are useful for finding out general articles about say 529s, taxes, etc - but I would not take their advise on investments.
But no matter how one trys to learn, attendance is mandatory sooner or later
Which is why it's cheaper and safer to do your homework first.
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