How to invest in the stock market?

**Mooseman2181** · 08-13-2007 12:02 AM

hi everyone,

I had a question about investing money in the stock market. If I only have a small amount of money to invest in the stock market, what would you guys suggest investing in?

Another question, what is the best way to invest? (Like online, on an investing website)

Thanks.

**akula** · 08-13-2007 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by Mooseman2181

hi everyone,

I had a question about investing money in the stock market. If I only have a small amount of money to invest in the stock market, what would you guys suggest investing in?

Another question, what is the best way to invest? (Like online, on an investing website)

Thanks.

good question

I'm a licensed financial planner, with over 5 years experience in trading securities

Given that you have long term financial objectives, my advice to you is to read the 12 steps, call one of the advisors listed on the site and use their services to leverage into a portfolio of tax effective index funds

listen to me carefully - print out the documents, read them, follow what I'm saying to and your risk adjusted returns are mathematically guaranteed to beat the returns of all those stock picking hacks

follow the scientists, use the systems devised by Nobel laureates, do what I'm saying to you and you're gonna be fine

fail to follow my advise, and you will be suffering risk adjusted losses and opportunity costs, for the reasons described in the books I’ve linked you to

**n/a** · 08-13-2007 08:49 AM

I used to work for the Vanguard group so of course I am going to recommend mutual funds. First of all how little to you have to invest? If you have less than 2000 keep saving. If you have more read on.

Here are a few funds with wonderful fund managers
wintergreen fund
third avenue value
try to get some sort of international fund. Vanguard has several that have done top notch.

**n/a** · 08-13-2007 08:51 AM

and I am personally invested in those 2 funds I mentioned. I think the minimium investment in the thrid avenue value fund is 10,000 now, cant rememeber. I have had a 3 year 45% return on that one fund.

**Xanifur** · 08-13-2007 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by lamarsh

I have had a 3 year 45% return on that one fund.

Are you sure you got that right? That's a bit high....

**n/a** · 08-13-2007 02:37 PM

yes you can look it up . Try third ave value in google and see if you can get a 5 year return. I got in at a good time back in 2002.

**eich41** · 08-13-2007 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by akula

listen to me carefully - print out the documents, read them, follow what I'm saying to and your risk adjusted returns are mathematically guaranteed to beat the returns of all those stock picking hacks

follow the scientists, use the systems devised by Nobel laureates, do what I'm saying to you and you're gonna be fine

First off there are no guarantees in the securities market. Secondly, scientists, nobel laureates doesn't necessarily mean much either. See the LTCM debacle in 98. That fund was ran by THE top scholars in Finance in the world and it was a major disaster.

You can also see it right now in the alternative investment industry. The models that they are using to manage their funds are flawed and as a result their returns have been terrible.

**roadtoharvard** · 08-13-2007 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by eich41

First off there are no guarantees in the securities market. Secondly, scientists, nobel laureates doesn't necessarily mean much either. See the LTCM debacle in 98. That fund was ran by THE top scholars in Finance in the world and it was a major disaster.

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

**crackah** · 08-13-2007 07:15 PM

How about options?

**akula** · 08-14-2007 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by eich41

First off there are no guarantees in the securities market. Secondly, scientists, nobel laureates doesn't necessarily mean much either. See the LTCM debacle in 98. That fund was ran by THE top scholars in Finance in the world and it was a major disaster.

You can also see it right now in the alternative investment industry. The models that they are using to manage their funds are flawed and as a result their returns have been terrible.

Okey dokey,

I welcome your attempt to make a point

Show me a statistically significant bit of evidence for rejecting the following hypothesis;

"A portfolio of tax effective, passively managed funds will always outperform a portfolio of actively managed funds over a 7-20 year period".

My evidence for supporting the hypothesis is located in the pages I've linked to. Where is your evidence?

**schumi** · 08-15-2007 09:01 AM

if you want to get your incoming steady increaseing,you'd better invest funds...
of course if you want to get more,you can do it yourself,but you will undertake more risk,which depends on you!

**akula** · 08-15-2007 11:01 PM

one of the latest papers i've read about trading securities is legg mason's, turtles in omaha

check it out. it's good. very good. much better than schumi's ramblings.

the points the paper makes are extremely important.

http://www.leggmason.com/funds/knowl...rtlesOmaha.pdf