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Please visit the main Invest, Personal finance, money, stock, Portfolio

Stock investment school / Share investment school.

These pages contain information about investments, securities, stocks / shares, bonds, mutual funds, money and portfolio management.

The pages are targeted for the novice to medium experienced investor / stock investor / share investor / trader. You can read, and learn how to invest, step by step - an easy to use stock investment school.

The texts will be examplified with the use of the portfolio management software program Amateur Invest. You can however use the stock investment school without using Amateur Invest. But if you do use Amateur Invest, you might be able to pick up new ideas here also.

These topics are available (click on any to see more or scroll down the page):

The main window of Amateur Invest looks like this:

Investment school content:

The content on these pages will be divided into these major topics:

1. Before you buy
What are securities?
What are stocks/shares?
What are bonds?
What is a mutual fund?
How does the stock market work?
Where do you trade?
- your homework, etc.

2. Maintaining a portfolio
Personal finance made easy
What is a portfolio?
What is Technical Analysis?
Taking currencies into account?
- When to sell, etc.

User written papers:

Here below you can download (by clicking on the each paper) information about investing:

1. Humorous introduction into various aspects of investments. Submitted by Art Schreckengost: stockpaper.rtf, appx. 55 Kb, and mutualfunds.rtf, appx. 65 Kb.

2. Your contribution.

More papers are welcome:

If you would like to contribute to these pages, you can submit your ideas and text via mail.

It can only be a win-win situation, to have Amateur Investors brief each other about investments. For this purpose, you can also use the discussion forum.

If your contribution is accepted, it'll be with your name on these pages, and also you'll receive a 50% discount on the regular registration fee for the program Amateur Invest.

Under continued construction:

These pages are still under construction. You can contribute as others have already done.

More to come - Stay tuned!