Successful Stock Market Investing - Now what?
1. Read as much as you can about investing and trading. Reading through the whole of this site is a good start.
2. Do not stop reading until you have understood several different methods of trading and investing.
3. Decide on the method or methods your research indicates hold most promise for you.
4. Practice making buy and sell decisions for real stocks before you commit any real money to the stock market. This is often called paper trading.
5. When you are confident that your method is effective, open an account with a stockbroker. Buying and selling shares online is now very cheap.
