Are you becoming more and more interested in learning about the stock market? With all the headline news based on the Dow Jones Average and NASDAQ, you probably feel as if you need to know more about it and how the fluctuations of the market affect you and the Average American down the street.
Learning about the stock market is not as complicated as it may seem at first, so you should not be intimidated. The basic concept is really quite simple; of course, there are a multitude of subtleties involved, and that is where experience is the best teacher, but just about anyone can learn about the stock market.
The best thing to do if you are interested in learning about the stock market is to read about it and talk about it with others, and then set up your own faux stock market portfolio. That is, you pretend to invest by writing down each day the decisions you would make if you were actually investing real money, and then chart your progress to see how you did at the end of a certain period of time.
Of course, as you go along, if you see that some of your decisions were not the worlds best ones, you should consult with others and think about what went wrong....