• Learn How To Trade Stocks


Would you like to learn to trade stocks? You found one of the few sites out there that offers stock trading training without asking for your credit card!

We aim to give you all the information you need to be a successful trader.

Did you know that most stock traders lose money?

One of the main reasons for this is people open an account with a stock broker too early!

We encourage you to learn how to trade stocks before you signup with a broker and risk your money.

I setup this site because when I started learning to trade, I felt very lost and confused and there were very few tutorial sites that really helped me.

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Can I really be a successful stock trader?

The truth is, almost everybody can be a successful trader.

I am no Einstein, by any stretch of the imagination and I have managed it.

Being successful takes a great deal of time and persistance. Many of us have very busy lives and beleive we do not have the time to start trading stocks.

This is rarely true. Learning to trade does not have to be massively time consuming.

Do you have a few hours a week you can spare? This is plenty.

In my humble opinion, the biggest key to being successful is persistance and learning from your mistakes.

I have made plenty of those. I talk about them throughout the training and educational articles.

What do you need to trade stocks?

Most people say to trade the stock market, you just need two things, a stock broker and some money.

This is true, but to be a good trader, you also need experience and discipline.

As I mentioned earlier, most new traders start risking their money too early. I know personally how tempting it is to get trading quickly, especially with all the fancy adverts for cheap discount stock brokers.

It is important to resist this tempation and educate yourself first.

It's always a good idea to do some fantasy trading with "dummy" money before trading a real money account.


Do you need a good discount stock broker?

Do you feel you already have what it takes to be a successful trader and need a discount stock broker? I have put together a list of discount brokers in order of price.

  • Investment Buying Tips

Foreclosures and bank REOs are pulling a new wave of novice investors into the market, some of whom "are just plain clueless, to put it bluntly," says Robert Cain, a long-time rental market and real estate management specialist based near Tucson, Arizona.

"They see the price and they way, wow! I can buy that house and turn it into a rental," says Cain, who lectures around the country and online about investing intelligently.

"But they don't understand the local market, they don't understand landlording, and don't even necessarily visit the property," Cain said in an interview last week with Realty Times.

For example, a property manager in Tennessee called Cain for advice recently. The manager had a simple question: "Should I fire my client?" who lives in California and purchased rental real estate 3,000 miles away in Tennessee -- sight unseen because the low price made it sound like a steal.

But the property had a long list of defects requiring costly repairs, and it was slow to rent - causing the absentee owner-investor to blame the property manager for the cash drain.

"We see it constantly," said Cain. "New investors think it's easy. They buy on emotion, on low pricing, rather than buying with a disciplined plan.

What are some of the key rules for freshman class investors? Here are a few of Cains' that have served him well since the early 1980s:

Number one: Due diligence is never optional. You've got to understand the local market - and that includes not just where prices are headed, but specific market demand for rental real estate in this price segment, and even the local government's plans for the area where you're thinking of buying.

Number two: Buy with a written plan - that's right, just like the large professional investors use, with an entry strategy and an exit strategy. How long are you going to hold onto the property, how much will it earn you during your period of holding?

And what's the endgame - a sale to another investor? Conversion to condos? Tear it down and build something that's closer to the underlying real estate's highest and best use?

"Write it all down," says Cain. That way you can analyze it better.

Number three: Calculate the actual costs of the property in advance - not just the bargain basement price, but how much you'll need to fix it and feed it - the management costs, rental commissions, vacancy costs, taxes, to name just a few.

"If you don't know these things up front," says Cain, "you are flying blind. And there are no good surprises in real estate." Today's Local Market Conditions Report