Stock markt?

Question

if anyone know a free PDF book or a site for learn to invest in stock market?

Answer 1

You should start by reading "The Intelligent Investor" by Ben Graham. It is the best book ever written about how to invest in the stock market. In particular read Chapter 9, "The investor and market fluctuations," which is extremely important for any investor other than a day trader to understand.

You can find pocket dictionaries of finance terms. Get one. Write to a few companies for their annual reports. If you live near a college with a business school, the business school will have annual reports. Work through the numbers in the annual reports and get a sense of what the numbers mean. To excel at investing (as opposed to speculating or gambling) you need to know something about accounting -- it's the language of money.

Answer 2

Try going to www.investopedia.com. They have a lot of good info, and I would expect them to have a newbie guide. Motley Fool, Morningstar, and yahoo finance may also have newbie guides.

If you live near a library or bookstore you can also go there and peruse their investing section. I think Peter Lynch's books are a good basic guide to investing.

Also, here's my quick and dirty guide to investing in the stock market:

1) Open a brokerage account online. (www.scottrade.com and www.tradeking.com are examples and there are plenty of other ones out there.) With 10k you shouldn't have to pay a fee simply for the privelidge of having an account, but be sure to read the fine print. I'm pretty sure Scottrade and tradeking won't charge you, and they have low fees for buying and selling stocks besides.

2) Buy what are called exchange traded funds. These are mutual funds that trade on markets like stocks--if you buy a share in one of them you will effectively own a little stock in a lot of different companies, which saves you the trouble of researching individual stocks and is also safer because it largely eliminates the danger of picking a bad stock. Two ETFs that hold all the stocks in the S&P 500 (a listing of the 500 main US companies) are the SPDR fund (SPY) and the iShares fund (IVV).

3) Do nothing. The stock market (which these investments should track closely) grows about 10-12% per year on average and over time this can add up to a tremendous fortune, especially if you invest more as you get older.

Answer 3

I somewhat wonder if you are really ready to invest in the stock market if you do not want to spend a little money on a couple of books on the subject. The price of those books will be inconsequencial in the long run.

Answer 4

You might want to take a look at 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 read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas. There is a charting feature, so you can see how your portfolio performs compared to the S&P 500. Also, you can create your own "group" so that you can see how you are doing compared to your friends.

Here are this month's best traders:

http://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx

Good luck.

Answer 5

maybe try www.nystockexc.com