Stock Trading and Other Things

What is stock investing and what does a stock investor do?

What university qualfications do they have?

Public Comments

1. you could go buy stocks if you wanted to right now, but you need money. and lots of it.

Typical small time investments are in the 1000's of dollars. And stocks increse in value.

So say you bought 500 stocks at like .10c a piece and a month later the company is rich and the stocks are worth like 100 a piece you just made LOTS of money.

Its like drug dealing in a way.

2. Anyone can buy stocks. Generally all you need is a bank account for money to be withdrawn from.
Usually just $500 is needed.

If your question is how does someone become a stock broker (someone who buys and sells stocks for customers) there really isn't a university degree for it, although finance and economics degrees are highly encouraged. You must be hired by a investment company that sponsors you to take the FINRA Series 7 test. You cannot sit for the test without being sponsored by an investment company. A passing score is 70%, usually only 75% of people taking it get a passing score. It is a comprehensive test that covers nearly all investments a regular joe consumer can legally buy.

3. No-load index funds are the best and least risky investment if you are young, and therefore have a long-term investment horizon.

Otherwise, I suggest you join Strategic International Systems at the source below. It costs nothing but to make Group Store Selections, of the same stores you use now, in concert with others, and consequently returns more than any mutual fund ever will over a 30-year enlistment.

Why? Because it is it is people, together in sufficient mass, who have intrinsic value, and therefore from whom no money is needed to make them financially independent over a 30-year enlistment.