| If you want to invest money, you may have heard | | | | lot more convenient and easy. You can use software |
| about stock trading. Stock trading, often referred to | | | | online and place trades with an online broker. Could |
| as day trading, is a way to buy and sell stocks short | | | | you imagine sitting in an office all day watching the |
| term. Many investors choose to buy and hold | | | | stock market move and buying and selling |
| investments for the long term. Before they buy | | | | periodically? |
| these investments, they do research on the | | | | That may or may not sound appealing, but either |
| companies and study up to know if they want to | | | | way, it isn't exactly easy. You need to be able to |
| invest in them. Not so with day traders. | | | | read charts and see trends. You then act on those |
| Stock traders or day traders could buy a stock and | | | | trends and buy and sell accordingly. You buy and then |
| sell it with in minutes, weeks, or months, whatever | | | | sell for a higher price, or you could sell short. |
| they choose. Day traders often buy and sell stocks | | | | Stock trading may or may not be for you. Do I |
| multiple times throughout the day. Some do this | | | | recommend quitting your day job to give it a try? |
| periodically or make it their day job. | | | | Absolutely not! At most I would suggest studying all |
| Can you really earn a full time income from this? | | | | you can about stocks, the stock market, and trading, |
| Maybe, maybe not. It depends somewhat on how | | | | take some time off from work assuming you have |
| good you are and how often you do it and a lot on | | | | enough cash to survive but without quitting, and give |
| luck. Dealing with the stock market is very | | | | it a try. If you do well, consider it further. If you |
| unpredictable and the stock market is very volatile, | | | | don't do well, you haven't lost much but a little bit of |
| so you have to be very careful. | | | | time and money. |
| With the onset of the internet, trading has become a | | | | |