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Stock Market Facts & Fiction

Millions of Americans invest in the stock market directly and many millions more invest in the stock market indirectly by owning mutual funds in 401k plans, IRAs and so on. Most don’t really understand their stock investment, and some are just clueless. Where do you fit? Here’s a morsel of stock market fact and some fiction.

Stock Market Investing Guide

The stock market is full of investment opportunities at times. At other times stock market investing can hand some investors losses of over 50%, as in 2000-2002 and 2008. Here’s a stock investing guide to help simplify your investing experience and to help you make money stock investing without giving much of it back in bear markets.

How to Follow the Stock Market

You can succeed as an investor if you follow the stock market on three different levels. Even in a bad market some stock sectors or groups show relative strength. You won’t find the opportunities unless you follow the stock market. Here’s how to stay on top of things with just a few minutes of effort a week.

What Moves the Stock Market?

You don’t need an MBA to get a handle on the stock market. Unless your instructor has plenty of “hands on” experience with stock investing, the class room is not the best place to learn stock market basics. It’s important to gain “market sense”, and this is best accomplished by studying the stock market itself. How can the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA or the DOW) be up 300 points one week and down 500 the next? What causes stock prices to fall 50% in less than two years?

Stock Market Facts & Fiction

Millions of Americans invest in the stock market directly and many millions more invest in the stock market indirectly by owning mutual funds in 401k plans, IRAs and so on. Most don’t really understand their stock investment, and some are just clueless. Where do you fit? Here’s a morsel of stock market fact and some fiction.