Investing

How much money should I have to start out with? How do I go about investing? Who do I call? Is there any site out there that will explain what all the terms mean or could their be someone I can ask?
looking to invest in stock
willing to risk a couple thousand. Long term or [...]

Should the government take control of all publicly traded companies to prevent such declines in stock prices, and thwart the greedy capitalists that manipulate the markets?

Trading stock options is risky and there are a lot of people who lose money in the stock market, but I know there are people making money out of this thing, is there really a way to trade options and make a profit from this?

Ok I am new to this and I figured I would ask some people online even though my dad worked on wall street and my grand pop made a lot of money investing in the stock market ( yeah yeah I know your all going to say ask them however my grand pop told me [...]

I want to get in the stock market. I have started reading about trading stocks and plan to do much more research before I start. I was going to use an online brokerage. Which would you recommend? And do I have to be 18 for this?

I’m sorry, I just turned fourteen a week ago, and I have absolutely no idea how to invest in stocks

I need a site that can help me learn, step by step, about investing in stock market. I keep researching about it and I keep getting confused even more. Like why do I need to open an account or where exactly do I buy the stock from?
I need a site for someone who had absolutely [...]

I am in american funds and my portofolio is down about 40% and i want to see how long will it take to get it back to where it was

Call me stupid, but I never understood how when something bad happens in the stock market, it affects us…how does it affect the people that haven’t invested in a stock?
I don’t understand….

The last 8 years we gave massive tax cuts to the wealthy and deregulated the financial industry causing an economic bubble in the stock market, commodities, housing, etc. Doesn’t it make sense to bring back tax rates to pre-Reagan era and keep regulations in place so that growth is moderate and stable??
And yes, I blame [...]

I am a citizen of the EU and I want to invest in the Stock Market by myself, E-Trade, Sharebuilder and others are only available to US citizens.

Capital market or stock market is a market where shares and stocks are sold.
Commodity market is one where stuff like toothpaste, candy, soda, food are bought and sold.
Commodity market has to do with tangible items while the capital or stock market deals in intangible items.
Please this is urgent.

Do i have to go to some kind to mediator, like a bank? or can I invest directly?

I’ve been researching the stock market over the past few weeks and wanted to try it out. So I bought 5 shares of stocks I like (C, Siri, GE, F and AMD). So I spent around 0 to play with on all 5 stocks, is it smart what I did to start off and watch [...]

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I don’t know very much about the stock market but I want to invest. Any tips? I know of E-Trade, Fidelity, Vangaurd etc. but Is one better than the other and what should I invest in? Help Please!!! Anything is good just tell me what to do!
I want to invest for my retirement and for [...]