Do You Know How to Invest in Stocks?
Many people want to know how to invest in stocks. Apparently more than 20,000 google searches each month are performed for the phrase 'how to invest in stocks'.
Investing in stocks is always going to be an interesting topic for many people. Why? Because everyone has heard a story or knows a friend of a friend who made a lot of money from some kind of stock market windfall.
Here are my top 3 stock market success stories that I have come across in my life:
My good friend and her husband inherited Oracle stock back in the 90's. The stock went up in value so quickly that they cashed out for about 1 million dollars. They bought a huge house in LA next to the celebrities in the Hollywood hills.
A friend of my father made his entire living trading stocks. He made about 8% every month on his portfolio. The compounded gains were enough to make anyone learn how to invest in stocks!
My wife grew up with a grandfather who invested in stocks. He easily made enough from the investments to pay for his 10 grandchildren to go to college using the investments.
My wife and I paid off our student loans by trading stocks!
Ways to Invest in Stocks
There is so many different ways to invest in stocks. In this very brief article, I hope to convey just two simple ideas to you that you might not have considered.
Investing in Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) allows you to buy many different stocks in just one transaction. This is a pretty good way to dip your toe into the waters of the stock market. I would recommend that you learn the basics by signing up for some free ETF news, updates and stock alerts with my good friend, Jeff Bishop.
Essentially, ETFs allow for diversification without all the work required to research many different stocks in many different markets.
Invest in stocks by buying individual stocks on the NASDAQ or NYSE. Traditionally, this would involve calling your stock broker every time that you wanted to buy or sell a stock. These days the online trading platforms greatly improve this experience. Everything can be done from your laptop with no annoying interactions with a stock broker over the phone.
The one down side is that each transaction costs a few dollars - this can really mount up if you are just starting out or trading frequently. So here is what you can do to get started (action is EVERYTHING). Install the Robinhood trading app on your smart phone. There are NO FEES with this trading platform. None. You can trade stocks with just a few dollars if you want to! This is very, very powerful as it allows everyone to have a go at trading stocks - no excuses!
Conclusions
My goal in this article was to give you a couple of nuggets of valuable information on how to invest in stocks. If these two simple tips were useful to you, please comment below. Also please feel free to check out the rest of this website to learn more about pennystocks and investing in stocks.
Good luck learning how to invest in stocks!
Wesley.