Review: Don't open a brokerage account up just yet...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
With 2013 having record setting highs, the prospect of investing in stocks sounds pretty exciting to some right now.  If only you had the right guide for it.  This is not that guide, it doesn't even give details on how to open up a brokerage account.  Of course, those instructions might be provided in the forth coming book announced in the last pages, "How to invest in stocks part 2: A closer look at stock market investing".The author is this book seems very confused about difference instruments in securities mixing descriptions of stocks with mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds.  A huge example is the second paragraph of the first chapter: "In fact many people invest their 401(k) retirement funds to take advantage of the high returns stocks can provide,."  Very few companies' 401(k)s include the ability to invest in a stock, in most cases if they do it only the stock of that company, the majority provide options in mutual funds and variable funds which ARE NOT stocks!The author has cherry picked a couple of basic terms with definitions and strung them together to create paragraphs.  Even with this knowledge you are NOWHERE closer along to being in a position to make any kind of decision to put your money at any kind of risk.I recommend two free websites to give you a foundation:TheMotleyFool (fool.com) - There is a giant section called How to Invest to start with.Investopedia.com - With terms, tutorials, and simulators you can really sink your teeth into the more technical aspects of the stock market.