Please advice me / help me to get started on how to invest in stocks

#1
Dear All,

Just came through this great forum yesterday - glad to see lots of good and knowledgeable people in this forum..

I am a student of mba(finance) first year.....as most of good students would.. we too are having bit of financial challage in my family and i need your help....i was wondering if it was possible if i learn stock investing/trading i could earn my expenses to fund my education atleast..we have about 3-4 lacs reserves from my dad's VRS and we are three siblings depends on this fund....we have no other source of income at the moment...could you please help me to get started on how to invest/trade in stocks?

Or would you advice to keep away from it? I can invest for about 8-15 months span for about 30% plus returns....

Thanks tons and tons for your help/advice...

- Nisha H Sharma
 

oxusmorouz

Well-Known Member
#2
I am a student of mba(finance) first year.....as most of good students would.. we too are having bit of financial challage in my family and i need your help....i was wondering if it was possible if i learn stock investing/trading i could earn my expenses to fund my education atleast..we have about 3-4 lacs reserves from my dad's VRS and we are three siblings depends on this fund....we have no other source of income at the moment...could you please help me to get started on how to invest/trade in stocks?

Or would you advice to keep away from it? I can invest for about 8-15 months span for about 30% plus returns....
From what I see, it can be done but it's a long process which usually lasts for several years, especially if it isn't learned systematically from a qualified person. Most who start get their account to go bust in this process and residuals are a small percentage. If you browse through the forum, you'll find lots of good stuff for learning. However, speculating with money one can't afford to lose is generally not a very good idea. In CT-8 terms, your investment utility function should have a steep increasing degree of risk aversion.
 
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uasish

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#3
Dear All,

Just came through this great forum yesterday - glad to see lots of good and knowledgeable people in this forum..

I am a student of mba(finance) first year.....as most of good students would.. we too are having bit of financial challage in my family and i need your help....i was wondering if it was possible if i learn stock investing/trading i could earn my expenses to fund my education atleast..we have about 3-4 lacs reserves from my dad's VRS and we are three siblings depends on this fund....we have no other source of income at the moment...could you please help me to get started on how to invest/trade in stocks?

Or would you advice to keep away from it? I can invest for about 8-15 months span for about 30% plus returns....

Thanks tons and tons for your help/advice...

- Nisha H Sharma
Plz dont.
1)People Invest in Capital Mkt for a second source of income mainly for Future.
2) Few with more Risk appetite invest with short time horizon from few quater to few yrs for Capital Gain.
3) Who Trade for a Living.

The first two categories have a MAIN source of income to fall back upon.
The 3rd Stage requires to accuire sufficient knowledge & skill as in any proffessional field.

Hence my suggestion plz dont.
 
#4
I agree with Ashish, he has given you a good advise, as you said the 3-4 lacks is a hard earned money from your father don;t let it go down... and don't expect 30% returns from market that too at present scenario...

I prefer you to complete your MBA, rest of the thing will follow automatically...

All the best.
Rams



Dear All,

Just came through this great forum yesterday - glad to see lots of good and knowledgeable people in this forum..

I am a student of mba(finance) first year.....as most of good students would.. we too are having bit of financial challage in my family and i need your help....i was wondering if it was possible if i learn stock investing/trading i could earn my expenses to fund my education atleast..we have about 3-4 lacs reserves from my dad's VRS and we are three siblings depends on this fund....we have no other source of income at the moment...could you please help me to get started on how to invest/trade in stocks?

Or would you advice to keep away from it? I can invest for about 8-15 months span for about 30% plus returns....

Thanks tons and tons for your help/advice...

- Nisha H Sharma
 
#5
thanks everyone - ultimately my aim is to get into stock related finance so i am tempted to learn the art of trading...

could you please point me to right directions...may be i would just invest bare minimum to start with...
 
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hari09omkar

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I am a student of mba(finance) first year.....as most of good students would.. we too are having bit of financial challage in my family and i need your help....i was wondering if it was possible if i learn stock investing/trading i could earn my expenses to fund my education atleast..we have about 3-4 lacs reserves from my dad's VRS and we are three siblings depends on this fund....we have no other source of income at the moment...could you please help me to get started on how to invest/trade in stocks?
Well madam,I don't know who told u that money can be made in stock market!! If anybody suggested u,ask him/her if he/she has seen a single one making money in financial markets!If u r not going to make it tougher for ur family,then just forget the idea.The people who makes money here in financial market are making it by their huge effort,which involves many many hours of reading,collecting huge amount of data for backtesting and research...etc etc.Thugs are there in every step here.It's a very good thread here and anywhere in the internet,which oxus referred,but still u should never indulge in putting a single paisa from those VRS 3 - 4 lakhs.U guys have no other income,it's better not to put it in the stock market.
 

AW10

Well-Known Member
#8
Dear All,

Just came through this great forum yesterday - glad to see lots of good and knowledgeable people in this forum..

I am a student of mba(finance) first year.....as most of good students would.. we too are having bit of financial challage in my family and i need your help....i was wondering if it was possible if i learn stock investing/trading i could earn my expenses to fund my education atleast..we have about 3-4 lacs reserves from my dad's VRS and we are three siblings depends on this fund....we have no other source of income at the moment...could you please help me to get started on how to invest/trade in stocks?

Or would you advice to keep away from it? I can invest for about 8-15 months span for about 30% plus returns....

Thanks tons and tons for your help/advice...

- Nisha H Sharma
Please don't put the emergency fund in the market. It is not a easy place to make money. One can certainly make money but after putting enough of hardwork and practice. If you want to experience the market then open paper trading with some foreign broker (because they have very good platform) and learn from there. This will also give you exposure to international market which might help if you are targeting a job in some hedgefund or investment bank in London/NY/Hongkong. You can also paper trade at moneybhai section of moneycontrol site.

I heard somewhere that 90% of the traders are looser in the market (and most of them loose their account and don't come back to market again.. but new set of fresh traders are always there). 7to 8% make decent money and only 2 to 3% traders make great money in the market. Journey is lot tougher then one might have imagined to reach in top 10% of the lot.

Happy Trading / Investing.
 

ARMHM

Active Member
#9
thanks everyone - ultimately my aim is to get into stock related finance so i am tempted to learn the art of trading...

could you please point me to right directions...may be i would just invest bare minimum to start with...
Wait for few minutes. I am reading what others have said to you.
 

ARMHM

Active Member
#10
Dear All,

Just came through this great forum yesterday - glad to see lots of good and
Since you are a young person and studying, my advise is to concentrate on your studies. Dont use your limited fund in the market at present. Complete your graduation, start earning yourself and then only put some amount (which you will not need in immediate future) for the market with a long term view. Fortune are destroyed in the market faster than they are made. Study shows that women are far better in selecting a stock than men, so I and others like me may prove wrong by advising you not to invest. Nonetheless be careful and dont fall prey to tipster around and even in this forum. There are more crooks in the market than saints.
 

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