Individual Stock Investing

Table of Contents

Types of Individual Stocks
Investing vs. Trading
Diversification Within and Between Stocks
Stock Price and Earnings
Dividends and Taxes
Knowing Your Companies - Fundamental Analysis
Tracking Stocks
Stocks vs. Bonds
Newsletters on Stock Investing
When to Buy and Sell
Pros and Cons of Buying on Margin
Related Links
Picking Your First Stock
 
 

Newsletters on Stock Investing

One of the best places to start when selecting newsletters involving stock investing is The Hulbert Financial Digest (HFD). HFD is a newsletter that ranks financial newsletters based on their risk and performance. Understand that a very good newsletter can have a very bad year, and that a very bad newsletter can have a very good year. Pay special attention to the assigned risk ratings of newsletters.

A newsletter that FinanciaLogic is partial to is John Dessauer's Investor's World. John provides valuable insight on the individual companies he recommends, as well as valuable insight into Global Economics. He is basically a "global value investor". There is also a hotline phone number for bi-weekly updates on stock recomendations. To order, call (301) 340-2100. Investor's World has a moderate risk rating in the Hulbert Financial Digest.

Louis Navellier's Blue Chip Growth Letter is proving to be a good resource for large cap blue chip growth recomendations.

Louis Rukeyser provides his opening commentaries from his Louis Rukeyser Wall Street monthly newsletter for free. An update comes out about the first or second week of each month.
 

Related Links

A Must See: Check out Louis Rukeyser's Investment Panel to see how "the expert stock pickers" are doing in Lou's annual investment contest. Get to know all of these investment advisors well.

Make sure you know how company earnings are doing this quarter with Zacks Quarterly Earnings Update. It is updated daily during earnings season each quarter.

Make sure you have studied the fundamentals of your companies using the INVESTools Advice Search and the Zacks Investment Research Search Engine  as well a having thouroughly reviewed your companies quarterly and annual reports.

Picking Your First Stock

Having thouroughly reviewed and studied all of the previous sections, you are now ready to pick that first stock that will rapidly put you on the road to financial independance. Right ?

Wrong. By now you should know that you must pick a diversified set of stocks of GREAT companies, in a variety of sectors, in a variety of countries. In addition, you must have selected an asset allocation that incorporates various types of stocks to include growth, value, and small to large cap.