I am trying to invest for the first time and I don't know alot about investing!?

If you had to start out now what would you invest in. I don't have alot of money now so I might need to wait until I save about $5,000. What would you invest in? What strategy would you take to build up?

one word.... diversification

invest your money in at least 5 different areas with no more than 20% of your total invested in each area

Well i recently got a financial planner and he is the BEST...ameriprise...if you go on their site and give them your info someone will call you..and its free to ask info and suggestions...i recommend getting a financial planner..The safest investment is a CD because its FDIC insured..find one that has great interest rates....i think the highest i see was around 5%.

I would spend half of my invest money since you might get scam or the stock might go down...Probably apple for me because of the ipods and the new iphone coming out...

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get some tips here

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Hi guy:
If I were on your foot, I will go to the bank and made a time deposit or ask them how can you make your money works.
Since I dont know anything about business, unless I am a business minded. I have to buy RTW , jewelries and perfumes to bring to the of the government offices who wanted my products to be paid every payday. But be sure they can be trusted or select the regular employees.

Hi,

First, learn something about investing in equites.

Watch CNBC, but don't pay too much attention to the talking heads, except for Jim Cramer, the wild man - but he tries to teach you how to invest and has some great advice.

Get Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World by James J. Cramer

Listen to Jim Cramer on CNBC.com

Go to Clearstation for quotes and tutorials on investing at (http://clearstation.etrade.com/). Sign up is free.

Get this book: Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (Wiley Finance) by Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, and Michael van Biema.

Another good book: The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens: 8 Steps to Having More Money Than Your Parents Ever Dreamed Of (Motley Fool) by David Gardner, Tom Gardner, and Selena Maranjian

Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich by James J. Cramer and Cliff Mason

I Want to Make Money in the Stock Market: Learn to Begin Investing Without Losing Your Life Savings! by Chris M. Hart

Sensible Stock Investing: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks by David P. Van Knapp

Stock Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) by Paul Mladjenovic

All About Stock Market Strategies : The Easy Way To Get Started by David Brown and Kassandra Bentley

The Motley Fool Investment Guide and their Web site (http://www.fool.com/).

The Little Black Book of Microcap Investing: Beat the Market with NASDAQ/AMEX Microcap Stocks, OTCBB Penny Stocks, and Pink Sheet Stocks by Dan Holtzclaw

How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition by William J. O'Neil

Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management by Alexander Elder

Big Trends in Trading: Strategies to Master Major Market Moves (A Marketplace Book) by Price Headley

Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Paperback)
by Charles Mackay (Author), Andrew Tobias (Foreword) This book talks about the Tulip craze in Holland where people would mortgage their homes to buy Tulip bulbs. Same thing happened in 2001 - 2002 with the Internet bubble that brought the stock market to its knees. The dot com companies were the Tulip bulbs.

Buy Investors Busines Daily. It has lots of tutorials and I like it better than the stodgy Wall St Journal.

Money Game by Adam Smith

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Wiley Investment Classics) (Hardcover)
by Philip A. Fisher. Recommended by Warren Buffet who took $100,000 and grew it to $34 billion!

Value Investing with the Masters by Kirk Kazanjian

Valuegrowth Investing by Glen Arnold

The 5 Keys to Value Investing by J. Dennis Jean-Jacques

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed. (Collins Business Essentials) by Benjamin Graham. Warren Buffet was his student at Columbia.

The Money Masters by John Train

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore

Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C. Bogle

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky

Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week! by Phil Town . See his Web site at (http://www.ruleoneinvestor.com/). Free sign-up. I got the book at the library.

Listen. You don't have to spend a lot of money on these books - most can be found at your library and those that your library doesn't have they can usually get from other libraries in your state.

Most of these books talk about stock and mutual fund investing, but for a good introduction to other forms of investing Gerald Appel has a great book called Opportunity Investing - How to Profit When Stock Advance, Stocks decline, Inflation Run Rampant, Prices fall, Oil Prices Hit the Roof and Every Time In Between.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman Not a book on investing, but it's a nice segue into the next book.

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham

Finding your strengths is important when investing. Thse books teach you to build on your strengths, what you a good at. Everyone is good or passionate about something. Why not get better at what you are good at?

Kindest Personal Regards,

Walt Brown
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capecod1@capecod-beaches.com

P.S. This is a life-long learning process. Read these books and apply the rules to analyzing stocks that may be good It takes time. Be patient and keep reading and listening.

P.P.S. Internet has lots of good stuff, for example (http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:moving_average_conve
Stockcharts.com is very good and their discussion of MACD is one of the best, barring its originator, Gerald Apple, but now we are getting into Technical Analysis and that is not for beginners.

I would suggest you wait untill the CBOE volitality gets below 13.
First of all you need to learn to play the bull market then you can learn to play with the bear market. Never ever be a hog and put all your money in one stock you will loose too much. I can help you with this a bit I have read a few books and have learned alot and I started 2 months and two weeks ago with $200 now I am at 600 now I was up to 700 but the feb 27 correction took me down to 500.You must get Stock Investing for Dummies, and 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success these books are worth every penny.Also you are going to want to set up an online account to better understand what they are talking about in the books you will have visual picture. do not set up margin account I have the best online broker there is and they are very cheap. If you email me I will send you right to them and let you know how to set it up and you don't have to deposit money till you are ready. my email is franksprung@yahoo.com I am more than happy with there service. I can help you out finding the things you will need to know on the site. It is almost impossible to loose all of it in one day. Most likely you will make money if you educate yourself.

Well Get a piggy bank.. and start putting money in it... or get a wallet and start saving and tel you parents to hold it for you?

without knowing your particulars... age, income, investment objectives, etc....
if you've got $5000 to invest, that's not really enough to go out and buy a bunch of stocks.... if that's all you've got to invest, you should stay away from risky stuff like penny stocks.... better to leave the investing decisions to the pros.... find a decent no-load mutual fund... you'll be able to add to it whenever you get some extra cash, and it should grow over the long term....
check with your financial advisor, or if you don't have one, you can probably get some decent info from some of the online brokers that offer research on mutual funds.
if you get to the point where you have a larger chunk of money to invest, then you can get into individual stocks or bonds....but make sure you do your homework before you invest in anything.

investing and eating have something in common; objective. you can get a fast return now or have your plan help you grow healthily.

example; McDonalds is fast and
ignores most people's health needs.

DAY trading is a fast way to earn $ IF YOU are very very good.

I do not and recommend against it.
I also do not eat at McD unless I have to.

READ Charles Given's
"Wealth Without Risk" and get back to me.

The problem with investing, is how much risk are you prepared to take and can you take the time to ride out the bumps which will happen along the way.

Recently the markets have had a rough time, the world we live in is much more turbulent now, and news travels faster than ever before.

This tends to mean markets crash quicker but recover quicker also as far as I can see.

The right investment does really depend on your attitude to risk, the greater the risk the greater the potential returns are.

In general I like safe slow and steady these days, however a few years ago I had Â£500 in a fund and annual I can change how many % of it I will risk in a a risk group.

So I choose the first year low risk and got about 5% return Â£525 I now have.

The followig year I went for 50:50 low and high risk, low risk got me about Â£15, however my total balance at the end of that year was aroud Â£890. The high risk eastern investment paid good.

The following year I split 25% low, 25% medium ad 50% high risk and came out with about Â£1200 in total, some years have been good and made ad others not so good and lost a few pounds on the previous years, but since the start I have done better than it sat in a savings account.

Since you are having to save the money first, it would suggest you don't have money you can afford to take a serious hit (loss), so I would look at low to medium risk, maybe split 50:50 to see how it goes.

Good luck with your investment, be wise if it sounds two good to be true it usally is, don't let the greed monster guide you.

Invest in stocks after a market crash, and the chances are you'll make a good profit in a month but do your homework well or you could end up with dummy stock.

Start simple.

You say that you don't have a lot to invest at the moment (and that's okay; most of us start out that way!) But that will limit your investing possibilities.

First, very important question: what's your investing goal? Do you have an emergency fund (to cover basic expenses, if you lost your job or had to be out of work due to a disability?) Do you have a retirement fund started? Are you trying to save to buy a house?

All of these things are important factors to determine where and how much you should invest.

If you're not sure what your goals are, for now, I recommend you stick with something simple like an online high-interest savings account, like the one offered by ING, ING Direct. <>http://www.ingdirect.com>

That will also give you a decent rate of return while you consider what else to do and build up more savings. Good luck!

Here are some links that can help you in making the right decision.
http://www.hotstockmarket.com/penny-stocks/
http://money.aol.com/investing
http://editorials.arrivenet.com/sports/article.php/9536.html
http://ca.askmen.com/money/investing_100/113_investing.html
Good luck

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