| With the stock market performing so poorly this | | | | These stock analysts are often the representatives |
| year, many people who have no experience are | | | | for their company that the public sees and so they |
| getting interested in learning about stocks. They have | | | | don't want to be negative. It is so much harder to |
| probably heard that is good to buy stocks when | | | | drum up business with a negative outlook than it is if |
| they are low and sell them when they are high. With | | | | you have a positive rosy outlook. It seems to me |
| all the bad news of the stock market going down | | | | that these analysts are told to go out there and |
| seemingly day after day, these beginners are now | | | | paint the most positive picture you can about the |
| becoming interested in getting involved. | | | | market. For example, "the market might be bad right |
| Once a beginner learns how to buy a stock, the next | | | | now but it will turn around and these are the stocks |
| step is to try to figure out what stocks to buy. | | | | you want to own when it does". |
| Where does one get that kind of information or | | | | Learning how to do some of your own research and |
| opinion? You can get stock pics almost everywhere | | | | not listen exclusively to the experts is perhaps the |
| including magazines, TV shows, radio shows, The | | | | hardest part of investing. If you are going to do |
| Internet and probably many other places as well. One | | | | things right, you do need to learn how to form your |
| thing is for sure, there is no shortage of opinions. | | | | own opinions and research stocks on your own. If |
| If you watch the financial TV shows, you will often | | | | you buy every stock a guru says is a winner, you will |
| see segments with the top analysts or "experts" | | | | soon find that they aren't right much more than |
| where they give their stock tips. These experts | | | | someone who picks stocks by throwing darts. |
| might be asked to analyze certain stocks or to give | | | | If you are a beginner looking to buy stocks and learn, |
| their own stock pics. It seems to me that most of | | | | it is wise advice to proceed slowly and not believe |
| the time these so called stock market gurus are | | | | everything you hear. These stock analysts are |
| positive about most stocks. There are exeptions but | | | | professional salesman and can make the worst stock |
| rarely do you find an analyst come on and say that | | | | in the world look like a screaming buy. It is your |
| he would not be buying any stock and that now is | | | | money and not theirs so be careful with it. |
| not the time to invest. | | | | |