What is the best way to win money investing in the stock markets?

I know you probably don't mean what you said, but you don't "win" money in the stock market. Like a commercial for a brokerage firm used to say, "You do it the old fashion way, you earn it."

Here is why. You take your own money and invest it in purchasing the stock of individual companies or in buying mutual funds which are companies that specialize in buying stocks of companies.

What are stocks of companies? Sometimes called equities or shares of ownership. Owners of companies want to raise money to expand the company, so to do so they offer part ownership of their company to other people. They divide the company up into shares of ownership and, in the past, a stock cerificate was issued to the people who bought a portion (or a share) of the company. Today this is more commonly a electronic entry in a brokerage account at a stock broker.

So a person could have bought, for example, 1000 shares of stock of the total 1,000,000 shares of stock of the company. The investor (the person who bought the 1000 shares of stock) now owns a part of the company and receives benefits or losses from that ownership of the company. The investor could sell the shares of stock to someone else. To make the selling of the shares of stock easier, the stockmarkets were formed and persons that knew how to buy and sell in the stockmarket were called brokers. Today there are all types of brokers: full service brokers, discount brokers, electronic broker firms, etc.

Now we get to the work part. You must research, learn, and decide into which companies you want to invest. There are thousands of companies available to you. The decision making of where to invest is the hard part. Some people do this on their own, they buy books on the subject, they get companies annual reports, they look at the companies' financial data, they work and work and work to make the right decisions. There are many methods, theories, and approaches to do this. That is why there are thousands of books and articles on the subject.

Other people hire other people to do this work. They buy shares in mutual funds. They read articles in Business Week, Kiplinger, Investors Daily, Yahoo Finance, Smartmoney.com, Forbes, Fortune, etc. on how best to do this. Then they invest their money into a mutual fund that fits their needs the best.

All of this if done right is not easy, but it can be very beneficial. You can earn a lot of money doing it properly or you also can lose your entire investment. However if you do it slowly and carefully, testing your approaches, you will earn the reward, the benefits that come from hard work and intelligent work. This is not a get rich quick scheme, because those prove too often to be "lose your shirt" scheme.