How do you know when a stock is doing good?

How do you know when a stock is doing good? For instance on the screen of an iPhone that has the stocks app how can you identify quickly what stocks are doing well? I am just pursuing this investing in stocks thing cause my father used to and since I was a kid I thought that was quite interesting. Now, I wanna some adventure, some excitement day by day. I know I still must learn some more before opening an E Trade or Scottrade account online.|||When it's going up.





If you're a rookie in investing or stocks, go to





www.finance.yahoo.com.





Open up a portfolio without using real money. You can give yourself as much or as little money to try out the market. The stocks you want to focus on is consumer staples, consumer discretionary, and healthcare. These are DEFENSIVE stocks that will survive through good and bad times. Most of my positions are in these stocks. Some names include 3M, Procter %26amp; Gamble, Kimberly Clark, Exxon Mobil, Walmart, Costco. Everybody's got to eat and wipe their butts regardless of the state of economy. Many of these companies survived through the Great Depression.





That's the benefits. You can sleep at night knowing your money is doing well. There are NO guarantees that you won't lose money. It's just that these stocks are the best. They pay good dividends too.





Then once you're comfortable and test the waters of the market, you can finally put some real money in. Go to Scottrade.com. They're excellent for beginners.|||Look at the 52week high. See if the current price is close to it. Look at the history of the stock in the past years. Is it relatively higher? What is the P/E (price to earnings per share ratio). If a $50 stock has an EPS of 3, then the 16.7, which is considered fair value.





There are many other ways...





If you are interested in opening an account with scottrade, you can use this promotional code to get 3 free trades. The promo code is BJCF2139.|||This is called Company Analysis. Not only do you have to know whether a stock is 'doing good', as you say, but you need to know whether it is going to be 'doing good' in the FUTURE. You see it gets a little complicated , doesn't it? It's all about researching a company. How do you do that? You read and read and read. A word of caution: things are also written about these companies that are NOT TRUE! Written by preople who deliberately want to trick you! Yes, crafty isn't it? Let's say I have lots of shares in a particular company, well my clients do, but we want to sell them and buy something we think is better. OK, so we get our highly paid analysts to write a negative report on the company we want to buy and a glowing report on the company we want to sell. Good eh?|||Go to scottrade.com and register an account there. The other brokers charge you fees.





Use the code LJEN3956 and your first three stocks will be free. You can later find ways to earn more free trades. I've been trading with scottrade for free since I opened my account.





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