Once you're ready to start buying and selling investments, you'll need to know how the process works.  This beginner's guide to online stock trading will walk you through choosing a broker to execute your online trades, the twelve types of stock trades you can make, how to short stock, how to trade on margin, the possible capital gains taxes you'll face, what market makers are and why they are important when trading stocks, and more.  Think of it as your ultimate reference guide to stock trading.

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The broker and brokerage firm are the two primary relationships you will have when you begin your journey to investing, whether you use a traditional broker, a discount broker, a bank, or a trust company.  Given that this relationship is so important, I put together a collection of articles and resources that will help you:

• Know what to expect when dealing with your broker; you'll see actual copies of real brokerage account statements and trade confirmations
• Find out how to choose a broker and brokerage firm based on your own individual needs and financial resources
• Learn what full service brokers and full service brokerage firms offer their clients that the discount online stock brokers cannot
• Uncover the biggest rip-off fees to avoid from your stock broker
• Discover ways to invest in, buy, and sell shares of stock without a broker or brokerage firm
• Compare the difference between a brokerage account and the now-popular asset management accounts or portfolio management accounts
• Whether or not you may be able to sue your broker if you lose money
• The twelve types of trades that you can place at a brokerage firm to get your stock orders executed
• Find out whether or not you lose everything if your broker and / or brokerage firm declare bankruptcy
• Discover what it means if your assets, including stocks, are held in a street name rather than personally registered to you

If you are new to investing, or are considering making the change to a new financial institution or brokerage firm, you will definitely want to take the time to brush up on the knowledge in this collection.  Continue reading The New Investor's Complete Guide to Stock Brokers and Brokerage Firms.

How to get rich is a comprehensive collection of articles, resources, and guides on investing, building wealth, saving, and money management, all designed to help you with one goal: how to get rich.  You'll learn:

• How to Get Rich Using 8 Secrets to Financial Independence
• How Women Can Get Rich by Building Their Investment Wealth
• How to Become Wealthy by Focusing on 9 Truths About Money
• Six Steps to Retire Rich and Enjoy Your Golden Years
• 10 Secrets of the Super-Rich - How the Top 0.9% of Wealth in America Did It
• 7 Rules for How to Get Rich
• 3 Secrets to Building a Great Fortune
• The Importance of Building Passive Income for Those Asking How to Get Rich
• and Much More!

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Did you know that if you had put $10,000 into Series I savings bonds in June 1999, your bond would now have a redemption value of $18,856?  Compare that to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is at break-even levels when adjusted for inflation and reinvested dividends,  and suddenly these stodgy investments look like pure gold.  Yet, it took strength of character to own them when the rest of world was bragging about making 400% from their stocks in just a few short years.

That's why Benjamin Graham explained the importance of owning both stocks and bonds in his classic treatise, The Intelligent Investor.

To  help explain some of the basics of I bond ownership for new investors, I put together a collection of articles, all focusing on what I bonds are, how you earn interest with the Series I savings bond, and how you can actually begin investing in them if you decide to take the plunge.   To get started, sit back, relax, and let's jump right into The Beginner's Guide to Investing in Series I Savings Bonds.