Beginner Stock Market Investing — Your Stock Investing Road-map

When it comes to stock investing most beginner have two questions...

1. Where do I start?

2. How do I navigate through this complex maze of information on stock investing?

Our objective here is to provide you with a "beginner stock market investing road-map". Based on your current investing knowledge — beginner to intermediate — we've proposed a learning plan that will take you one step at a time and avoid a rush of new, abstract information.

Beginner

First, congratulate yourself ... give yourself a good thump on the back!

You're in the minority here .... most people want nothing to do with investing their own money. They'd rather leave that to the professionals.

But hey, most professionals end up lagging the stock market as a whole. So why pay someone to lose your money when you can do so yourself ... for free?

On a more serious note, you're about to embark on a very fruitful journey. Once you learn the basics, practice diligently, and develop the right mindset, you're on your way to producing a steady return on your investment.

Once you've mastered the basics, it's a matter of finding your style and refining as you go along.

So let's lay out your road-map.

One thing to note here ..... each of the links below opens in a new window. Once launched, treat this new window as a learning module. You will end up clicking on more links within that module that will take you deeper. But you can always return back to the module through links at the bottom of every new page you open.

Once done with the module, close it and come back here.

• First of all, you need to know the basics of the stock market. Here you will be shown what exactly is traded in the stock market, the key players, and the organizations involved.

• Once you've digested the basics, you might want to start keeping a watchful eye for good financial resources. Here are some sources of good stock investing advice.

Intermediate

Once you have a basic understanding of the stock market and stock investing, you're ready to take the next step into some more advanced topics.

• Fundamental Analysis
  We strongly believe that stocks are not just pieces of paper that you trade. When we're buying stock we're buying a piece of a business. And how do we assess the health of that business? This section shows you how.

• Now that you've picked up fundamental analysis it's time to go stock hunting. How do you do that efficiently?

  By using stock screeners.

  Learn how to sift through the universe of stocks to look for what you want based on the criteria you specify.

• Ok... you've used a stock screener to filter through companies, done your fundamental analysis and have come up with a short-list of companies. Ready to buy?

  You would be if you could determine if the current stock price offers good value. How do you find the value of a stock?

  Here are the nuts and bolts of stock valuation.

• Before you make your stock purchase, you want to make sure that the management running these companies is capable and not self-serving.

  Here are the nuts and bolts of Here are some pointers on how to do that.

• Interested in seeing how the stock has performed in the past?

  Stock Charts are a good way to do that. Charts help you identify when to get in and out of stocks that have passed your fundamentals tests.

• Want to see how you can earn income while owning stocks?

  Dividend Investing tells you everything you need to know about this approach.

We've covered a lot of ground here. Take your time going through this material. It is important you educate yourself before making that first investment.

The stock market can be a dangerous place if you don't know what you're doing. But if you've diligently read through this material, you have nothing to fear.

We're going to leave you with one last bit of interesting material -- our very own Beginner Stock Market Investing Tips!

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