So you are looking to get into the stock market and not sure where to start.  You are not alone my friend.  The market has bounced back up between 40% to 70% since the March 2009 lows depending on which market index you follow, and here you are sitting on the sidelines wondering how you can get a piece of this action.  It’s hard NOT to be excited.
For all you newbies looking to get in or wanting to learn about how the market actually works, over the next couple of …

I was very fortunate to have found the stock market at a very early age. However, If you had seen my portfolio in the beginning, you wouldn’t have called it so “fortunate”. From the outside, it was actually quite regrettable. I, like most amateur stock market investors, began my career on a whimsical dream of getting rich quick.