Financial Web
> 5 Common Investment Mistakes
> A Comparison of Investments
> Avoiding Investment Scams
> Basic Investment Strategies
> Choosing a Broker
> Constant Dollar Investment Strategy
> Constant Ratio Plan
> Community Investing
> Dollar Cost Averaging
> Discerning the Two Types of Risk
> Explaining the P/E Ratio
> Glossary of Investment Terms
> Getting Started in the Stock Market
> Global Diversification
> How Events affect Perception and Investor Confidence
> How a Securities Trade is implemented
> How Globalization affects U.S. Companies
> How Economic Cycles affect Investing
> Investing 101
> Keep Watch over your Investments
> Let the IRS Help Your Investment Returns
> Long, Short, Flat: What Your Position Means
> Limiting your Risk with Market-Neutral Investing
> Margin Accounts
> More Key Market Indexes
> Market Indexes – The Dow Jones Industrial Average
> More Stock Investment Strategies
> Making a Market
> Profile of the Successful Investor
> Risk Management
> Stock Market Pros and Cons
> Should you use Life Insurance as an Investment?
> Socially Responsible Investing
> The Magic of Compound Interest
> The Money Market - Part 1: Traditional Instruments
> The Money Market - Part 2: Nontraditional Instruments
> The 6 Basic Principles of Successful Investing
> The 6 Basic Principles of Successful Investing. Part 2: Two Strategies to Avoid
> The Prospectus
> Types of Brokerage Accounts
> The Rationale of Buying-and-Holding
> When should you Rebalance?

Investing Basics: It's Easy to Start

From the outside looking in, it's understandable that the big, mean, complicated, dog-eat-dog world of investing can seem pretty intimidating to the beginner just trying to make sense of the whole thing. Yes, it's true: it is big, some areas can be extraordinarily complex, and the occasional dog does get eaten from time to time. But there's no real need to be worried about those types of things, because investing is a pool that has many depths, and you don't have to jump in at the deep end. As a matter of fact, if you have any nonessential funds at all, you've got as much as you need to start.

The truth is that you can begin your investing program with just a few dollars each month. You only have to find out how and where to begin, and that's where we can help. Investing Basics will not only show you the principles of investing your hard-earned money wisely, we'll also teach you how to evaluate yourself so that you'll be better able to choose those investments that fit not only your finance picture but your personality as well.

Remember, you don't have to already be an expert to get into the game. You simply have to make a commitment to continuously educate yourself in the subject – and you don't have to lose your shirt while you're getting up to speed, either. We'll show you how!