Playing the stock market

Canada
February 7, 2007 7:39am CST
Have you ever owned shares in a stock? Did you make money off of your investment, or lose your shirt?
6 responses
• Australia
17 Feb 07
I have made a lot of money buying and selling shares, see some of my other posts on here for more info on what stocks I have bought and sold. I also trade optoins on the stockmarket which can be a very high reward to risk strategy. A good site for info is www.sharedigest.com Good luck!
@sihanik (118)
• Malaysia
10 Feb 07
investing in stock market is one of the ways to grow your money. To make money from stock market is possible, but you need to be careful and alert. Homework is a must if you want to reduce the risk of this investment. I found 1 article this morning about investing in stock market at the resource center of http://www.silverroad.ws
@maxsee212 (799)
• United States
9 Feb 08
investing in the stock market is exciting. you have the opportunity to retire early if your investments are doing great. if you plan to invest in stocks of companies, you should be willing to do the homework because when you there is something bad going on in your stocks, you would know about it and when there is something good going on, you will make money. investing or picking the right stocks is not perfect. you have to be diversified in your portfolio. diversification is away to spread your risk of loosing money if one or more of your stocks will go bad. the most important thing also is to know what's working in the stock market or the economy.
@cultoffury (1283)
• India
9 Feb 07
I was really afraid of stock market. Lately, I found myself interested in these, I want to try thing thing for sure. But I don't have anyone who knows about this, someone who could help me out, in this. Once I get an opportunity, I am going to pounce on it.
• Singapore
1 Mar 07
Hi : I trade mainly US stock options based on earnings gapping analysis. I'm still refining my trading techniques till this very day. It's a profession which commands hard work, discipline, skills but it's certainly worth it. Tony Chai http://options4u.blogspot.com
• United States
31 Mar 08
I have owned some stocks here and there. Then recently i decided to buy with about 10,000 dollars and see how well i could do. I started out playing it safe with big companys and not doing anything to risky. You may ask how i could play it safe in suck a bad market. All i have to so is one word. "Forign money". As the dollars value goes down the Euro goes up. As i invest more into the Euro i am investing in the dollars losses. This is helping me create large wealth and Gold is another important stock. Gold has hit a record high because as the dollar is worth less the gold is worth more money. This is bad for the economy but good for investors.