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Old 10-10-2007, 12:52 PM
spider spider is offline
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Default Re: Learning Investing

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Anyway I am specifically interested with derivatives (sp?)

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Bad place to start. In terms of practice, start by going long. It is hard enough to be challenging, but the great thing is that the overall trend is upward so you actually have a decent chance of coming out ahead even if your stock/fund choices are more or less random.

And anyway, you really can't understand options/derivatives until you understand the long perspective.

Start with some good books, there have been threads here about good ones.
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