stock investments
Stock investments are one of the more popular forms of investing.
One can own shares either directly or through funds, such as mutual funds.
Mutual funds, in fact, have become very popular, with 37 percent of U.S. households having invested in mutual funds in 1997 (up from 6 percent in 1979).
Stock market is a market in which shares of stock are bought and sold.
Usually, the trading takes place either electronically (where an electronic market program matches buyers and sellers) or through brokers (where a broker, an individual, matches buyers and sellers, either directly, or through the electronic market program).
Stock market is also called equities market, share market, or securities market (which may also be taken to include other financial securities markets).
Companies traded on stock market are generally speaking larger, more established companies.
The companies usually have a history of operations, which enables investors and analysts to figure out how much the company is worth.
Therefore, the stock market is usually not a place for start-up companies to seek financing, and normally these companies get funded through venture capital financing or similar arrangements.
Resources to Learn About Stock Investments
One of the key elements is stock investing is to have a strategy.
Strategy may include rules or general ideas on what type of companies to buy, how to value companies, when to sell, and so on.
The best education resources for stock investing therefore prepare you to deal with formulating your own strategy.
There are also educators that teach their own method of investing in the marketplace.
Educational formats include classroom teaching, mentoring programs, seminars, and books (as well as CDs/DVDs).
There are also investing games that let you try out your strategy without any real financial risks.
Some of the best resources for stock investing education are the marketplaces themselves.
For example, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) offers education publications and NYSE sponsored classes on stock market investing.
Other resources include:
- biz.yahoo.com/edu/ed_stock.html
- investing.wsj.com/stocks.html (about online investing)
- stockseminarsonline.com (online investment seminars)
Finally, you may prefer to go with funds that invest for you in the stock market. In this case, you should study and compare the stock market investment strategies of the people that run the funds.
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