This is the most obvious and most difficult step in stock trading. With well over 10,000 stocks to trade in a good guideline is to consider first in which sector you wish to trade in first.

Of course you would be looking at a sector that is receiving good media coverage and in which the stocks concerned are going in in value.It stands to reason that you would not be looking too hard at a sector that was experiencing a severe downturn.

First Foray Into Making Money in the Stock Market by: Joel Weihe It all began 3 years or so ago when my insurance and finance company offered me 16 free trades with their brokerage. It sounded like fun, although I knew absolutely nothing about the stock market, didn’t even really know what a stock market was. So I took the bait, sent them $500, and I was a “trader”. And I made sure everyone knew it, too. I researched companies to death, requested info packages in the mail, called publicRead More