Any Investors here? I need some stock help

I want to start to invest online, But i dont know much about the stocks. Is there anyone that can help me find a place to invest online, the best one, and help me out with the basics. I know a good amont but i dont want to lose any money. I need soemone that can help me with how to find places to invest in how to do anything. Thanks Yeah its not a deal, but a good way to make some money __________________ Nice Deal!! __________________ quote: Originally posted by lethologica: I want to start to invest online, But i dont know much about the stocks. Is there anyone that can help me find a place to invest online, the best one, and help me out with the basics. I know a good amont but i dont want to lose any money. I need soemone that can help me with how to find places to invest in how to do anything. Thanks Yeah its not a deal, but a good way to make some money You may want to rethink this. Do you really want to trust your money on the advice of people you hardly know? __________________ I sent you an email with my thoughts. Reply back here if it doesn't go through since my ISP is trash lately. John __________________ depending on the amount of money you plan to invest, it may be wise to subscribe to something like thestreet.com. there is a lot of free in fo out there, but it is much more accessable and easier to understand when you pay for it. then i would go with a broker who has a solid reputation like charles schwabb of fidelity mutual. they both are great businesses and have a very good web presence with easy to use sites. check out http://www.zdnet.com for some great business and tech news to help you on your way. zdnet also offers a stock contest every month which you may want to try to see how well you can handle yourself. they start you out with $100, 000, and if you cant make that grow, then you definately will need to get help __________________ I've learned a lot from reading the Motley Fool's website www.fool.com. I'd highly reccomend their "Fool School" section for new investors (even for old ones!) and I found their advice on selecting an online broker very helpful. __________________ deal forum for deals. off topic forum for off topic. hrmph. __________________ I second the Motley Fool. I've only been doing stocks for 16 years, so I'm not an old wizard, but I think the advice the "Fools" dish out is appropriate. Sometimes they blatantly say other analysts (or sometimes themselves) were/are wrong about stock futures and valuation. They also reason out why they choose to drop/pick up a stock instead "oh I see growth ahead". ------------------ Ço£o§§ü§ - yeah you can read into it... __________________ I personally enjoy http://www.iexchange.com to weed out some very hot picks. There's also the possibility of http://www.ipo.com (a buddy at Merryl Lynch swears by it). What else ... http://moneycentral.msn.com and use "Juback's Picks". Then, as the other posters said, Motley Fool of course. In terms of brokerage, I would recommend E*trade. It's just the easiest to use. cya l8r __________________ There are two good books that people have recommended to me, and that I've recommended to others. One is "Understanding Wall Street" by Little and Rhodes (small green book) which covers the basics (i.e. what is a share of stock and why do companies go public), and the other is "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham (this covers the basics of 'value' investing). __________________ quote: Originally posted by lethologica: I want to start to invest online.....but i dont want to lose any money. Join the club. If any of you know a way that we can all invest and make a ton of money on line, without the risk of losing anything, I'm all ears............ -Rev __________________ lethologica, everything that's been said here has some validation/truth to it. but here's my question for you. ask bill gates (when you have the time/opportunity) how much "day-trading" he does. ask any professional money manager how long they hold their stocks/mutual funds for. the thing to remember about stocks is that they require one very important thing: TIME. and if you think it's "TIMING", go to any brokerage firm that's successful, and see how long they've been established. they are successfull b/c they've been in business for a long TIME, and thru that long time, they've made lots of money. anyone who has made it big in stocks, they know that it's about riding everything out, which means TIME. if you want to do "day-trade", that's cool i wish you the best of luck, b/c as much as reading on some website will help, it will still require you to do some research on your own. which in turn, requires TIME. as long as you hold your ground for a long time, you generally come out on top (i only say generally b/c not everyone has come out, but a good majority) if there's a way that we can make it big in the market w/o the risks, heck i would love to get in on it. however, if there really was, why hasn't anyone discovered it? why isn't on the deals page? at lease in our lifetime, EVERYTHING comes with a big risk, the bigger the reward, the bigger the risk. there's ways to work with the risks of course. and that depends on who you ask. but whoever you ask, make sure they and you, understand the gains AS WELL AS the risks. or else, you will be receiving an one-sided opinion, which may hurt you in the long run. i have lots more i can say, but i'll leave it up to you. if you want, you can contact me, and i can refer you to someone who can help provide better info for you to use at your own judgement. __________________ Novell(novl) and 3com(coms) are two established companies that are currently priced like they are just starting out. :0) __________________ What are some of your picks for stocks? I wish I had bought some Cisco stock a couple of years ago... two years from now what stocks do you think I wished I had bought? __________________ By the way stockholders should REJECT all cheesy buyout offers like the current $3 a share for CDNOW. You know this company is going to be a cashcow once they figure out the kinks of payment for digital delivery of music content. Stingy BMG should be offering at least $7 to be fair. :0) __________________ i know. invest 1,500 in me. send me paypal to this address. i will gladly help take your money away from you __________________ If you want a company that's a bit risky and has high chance of return look at KOSP on NASDAQ. I did a drug study at the VA where we tested their cholesterol drugs Niaspan and Nicostatin. I know every cholesterol drug out there on the market, and KOS's Nicostatin seems to be the next big lipid therapy drug? So what does this mean? Well, the best selling drugs (by $) are heart/lipid therapy meds. In my honest opinion this company should be a cash cow. They have a great product pipeline as well. They primarily deal with reformulating old meds. Now, I bought this stock originally at $35 in 97. It then proceeded to tank to $4 over the next 2 1/2 years and I lost tons of money, but I kept buying more and more because I knew it had potential. The stock rebounded to $22 earlier this year with the biotech comeback and is now at about $14-$16. Between my dad and myself we own about 3k shares and are up by about $13k on this company. Obstacles to the company are : 1) convincing physicians to prescribe Nicostatin (a completely new way of treating hyperlididemia) 2) breaking even. The company is still losing money promoting the drug Niapsan and is in phase III for Nicostatin. Hopefully, they should show a profit by end of 2000 or beginning of next year. As a medical student/researcher in a lipid clinic for 5 years I really believe in this company. As with any company, research it first. I have lost tons of money on this stock in the past, but I sat through it and am happy with what I see now. If KOS can get it sales going on Nicostatin once it's FDA approved it should jump from $15 to well over $300 over a 3-5 year period. If you have any medical background, just out the company's awesome results in Journal of American Cardiology and the 1999 AHA convention. Moti Kashyap was my boss at the VA. As far as near term stocks, Symantec looks good as it's the only software company that seems to be doing well as of late (SYMC). I bought them at $47, sold them after earning at $64, and picked them up again last week at $47 hehe. Looks to be a while before they see a run, but I think they're good for a $20-$30 run over 6 months. Tyco has been a favorite of mine over short and long term. Look up TYC. The are essentially a mini GE and make stuff you use everyday. They have purchased US surgical, AMP, and ADT home security in the recent years, and their underwater fiberoptics is spinning off! ------------------ Ço£o§§ü§ - yeah you can read into it... __________________ Lethalogica, if that scam in the Deals section was the best you could do, maybe picking stocks is a little beyond you...stick to ripping off banks You're apparently pretty dang good at that. __________________ Hey uhhh...aren't you $1400 in debt? What exactly are you buying these stocks with, 17 year old stupid boy? __________________ Hathaway(HATH) ;0) __________________ I have a company that is IPO'ing in the next month. I'll sneak you an insider deal if you want. E-mail me for more info . It's predicted to go at least 1500% by the first week.