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General Stock Investment Strategies - Young Investor


Expert: tbaarr - 1/9/2009

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I have been searching for investment for the past 2 weeks, i got a little abuut how the game is but i have still boundle of questions as i keep learning.

the first thing i learned that the difference between Investment and retirement.

WE will talk about investment.

In investment i learnt that it contsist of Stocks, Mutual funds< Bonds, CDs, Saving Accounts, Annuities, and money market fund.

I only got that how can we earn by buying stocks,
but i dont know if i buy mutual funds how will be paid.

Now what makes me confused that how and where to get started.

For Eamples , if i open a account AMERITRADE
there i will put some fund let say $1000.
by this fund i can buy Stocks , it ok i got up to here.

now if i want to buy mutual funds or bonds how to do that can i buy those with the same account and include it with in the same portfolio.

How should i allocate my Asset.

Please help me.

Regards
Mansoor

Answer
stock or mutual funds etc

are a simple buy sell procedure

you open a stock account

you look for the stock or fund you want to buy

you get the ticker symbol

either by asking your broker

or looking up the company or fund on the web at say yahoo finance

you buy and the stocks or the fund shres you buy are held in your account

then you watch the stock or fund

when it goes up enough tht you can sell it and make a profit after you have paid your commission

you sell

then the brokerage take the sold shares of stock or the fund and removes them from your account

and deposits the cash you received from the sale

you can then request a check be mailed to you to get your money

your broker will explain how to buy bonds etc

I suggest you use charles schwab  investments rather than ameritrade

as you will have better access to a live human to help solve problems

www.charles schwab.com is who I use for the last 20 years

good luck  

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