| A few months ago I asked a friend of mine to give | | | | should read some basic books on how the stock |
| me some stock trading tips. Larry is a broker on Wall | | | | market works, and about the basics of stock trading |
| Street and has been working at a top firm for over | | | | - and even possibly attend a few seminars on trading |
| twenty years. When he asked me why I was so | | | | to educate myself. |
| interested in the market, I told him I wasn't happy | | | | "But it's not a game," Larry warned me. "So many |
| with my current broker. I had a small, diversified | | | | guys get involved in online trading thinking they're |
| portfolio with a brokerage house in our area, and like | | | | going to become millionaires and end up losing |
| most people the value of my portfolio was in the | | | | everything they have." Larry said I should remain |
| toilet. It had lost nearly half of its original value. I told | | | | conservative and only trade a few stocks a day. In |
| Larry I thought I could do better. Larry smiled and | | | | the end, this was one of the best stock trading tips |
| said, "Oh, really." | | | | he gave me. |
| We laughed a bit at this. Then Larry told me if I was | | | | For weeks I read the publication he suggested and |
| serious about leaving my broker and managing my | | | | picked up new stock trading tips just about |
| portfolio on my own, there were several things I | | | | everyday. When I thought I was ready I closed my |
| should know. To begin with, he said, I should educate | | | | account with my broker and transferred the funds |
| myself about the market. Publications like the Wall | | | | into my new online trading account. I followed Larry's |
| Street Journal, Barron's and the Economist were | | | | stock trading tips and created a very conservative |
| required reading for anyone who wanted to manage | | | | portfolio. When I felt comfortable with my |
| their own accounts. These stock trading tips made a | | | | knowledge on a few equities, I began to trade them |
| lot of sense and I got subscriptions the very next | | | | in small amounts. The strategy worked out, and after |
| day. He also said that I could get an online trading | | | | a few months my portfolio was off life support and |
| account. Most online trading companies offered | | | | walking around again. I couldn't have done it without |
| rock-bottom charges. Additionally, he said that I | | | | Larry's level-headed stock trading tips. |