What are some good stocks to buy for fist time investment?

What do you reccomend and how do I look them up? It seems really confusing, on how to understand it..Can you please expalin it to me...There are a few companies that may become big in the future, is this how I should look at it? thanks

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I've been doing this for quite a few years, and my advice it NOT to buy individual stocks. Buy mutual funds instead.

There are thousands of funds in the US. Look at American, Fidelity, Dodge & Cox, T Rowe Price, Vanguard, etc. Maybe read up in Money magazine or something similar, and then visit several funds' websites.

For a beginner, this is WAY better.

I see you are interested in investing in the stock markets.

There are quite a number of things you need to learn before you can even start thinking of the stock markets ...

1. You need to understand how the stock market works and what it is exactly about.

2. You need to know what are the different styles of trading in stocks and shares.

3. You need to read about why so many people lose their shirts in the stock markets so that you can avoid their mistakes and also decide if this is a risk you want to take.

For all these issues and more, you can read about them from some of the articles that I wrote at http://www.mastersoequity.com/articles.htm

After you are adequately armed with the basic concepts and ideas, you need to know how to find profitable stocks to trade or invest in. You can do that the easy way by subscribing to stock pick services (example http://www.stockpickmaster.com ) or you can learn to use charting tools and softwares to find stocks with parameters that you can pre-define. (example http://worden.mastersoequity.com/).........

Remember, the slogan "Just Do It", Just won't do for the stock markets. If profiting in the stock markets is as simple as buying a single stock , then why are so many people still poor?

After you have all the above mentioned knowledge, you need to ask the following golden questions before you can decide whether a stock is worth buying or not :

1. Why are you of the opinion that this stock will rise?

2. Is your opinion valid in the first place?

3. When are you expecting it to rise? Can you hold on for that period of time or longer?

4. What is your expected entry price? After what price would your expected profit margin be too thin to enter upon?

5. Where is your expected stop loss point? What is your stop loss point based on? Where will you tell yourself that it is time to take a loss and get out?

6. Where is your expected profit taking point? What is your profit taking point based on?

7. Does the way you are buying the stock allow you to hold on until your expected profit taking point?

8. How much of your money should you dedicate to this one trade?

9. What is the level of primary, secondary and idiosyncratic risk you are undertaking when deciding how much of your fund to use?

10. What is your cashflow need? Does your cashflow needs allow you to hold the full lifetime of the stock?

After you are able to answer all these questions confidently, THEN you are ready to... PAPER TRADE your stock strategy. Yes, even at this point, you are NOT READY to trade for real. You should trade on PAPER for at least 6 months and become consistently successful BEFORE you take your stock strategy into real life.

Then.. you are ready to start... but there is still no guarantee of success as paper trading is very different from real trading. You will need another maybe 1 year or 2 trading very little money and be consistently successful BEFORE you are ready to increase your stakes.

So, as you can see, success in the stock markets is not easy at all the the less knowledge you have, the more risk you undertake. I lost hundreds of thousands in the stock markets before I become successful.

Take heed and good luck.

All in all, investment and trading is a lifelong education and non stop learning. No one is ever done learning and catching up with changes in the markets.

If you care to read about how I went from completely broke to retired millionaire trading stocks and options by 28 years old, you can go to http://www.mastersoequity.com/

In conclusion, what I am saying here is that trading stocks and investing for profit is a professional game that takes years and a lot of money to learn, so it is not something that someone in need of college fees should do ... now.... but you should certainly start to learn about it right now.

Hope these information helps.

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http://www.mastersoequity.com/

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halo friend,

in india its rainy season, for short term there is no such shares to invest in.
for a long term i think it is good time to enter shares in IT sector, CEMENT sector, construction sector
now infrastructure stocks seems to be more profitible.u can enter in LANCO and GTLinf.
also watch RNRL,RELIANCE PETROLIUM

good luck............

None. Unless your job is full-time stock investment, you should not invest in individual stocks.

For a first time investor, look at mutual index funds - the best would be a broad index like the total stock market, the S&P 500, or the Russell 3000.

When you buy an index fund, you are buying tiny amounts of hundreds of different stocks that mirror the index. As the index moves up or down, so does the value of your portfolio. True, you will not see huge growth in short periods, which you MAY get with a single stock, but you also won't see huge losses that might equally be associated with a single stock.

Look at Vanguard, Fidelity, and other companies offering quality index funds, with low (less than 0.3%) management fees, and with no front or end loads.

The advice earlier on Exchange Traded Funds is not bad, but there are disadvantages to these funds, in particular the trading costs often associated with them. An index fund has lower costs associated, particularly if you plan to save each month by buying more shares in the fund (an approach called dollar-cost-averaging, and something I highly recommend).

The easiest thing you can invest in are exchange traded funds-- these are basically mutual funds that are traded on stock exchanges, and allow you to own a little stock in a large number of companies.

For examples the iShares fund (ticker symbol IVV) owns stock in all of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 (a listing of the 500 most important US stocks that make up roughly 73% of the stock market). Over the long term this should give you returns that roughly match the stock market, and largely eliminate the possibility that you'll pick the next Enron.

First you have to know the background of the company, financial status and its legitimacy. Second you have to be bold enough to take the action, in investing stock-market you should know that it is roller-coaster ride, sometimes the market is really high, there are times it is steady or maybe down

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