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S&P Returns Since 1927 Are Important

NeilEzell:

You might consider starting this way:

Read Every Day Online –
Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Economist, Financial Times, Business Week, Barron's (and weekly Barron's on weekends).

Read Important Modern Investment Books, such as –
The Intelligent Allocator by Bernstein,
Unconventional Success, a Fundamental Approach to Personal Success by Swensen
When Markets Collide by El-Erian

Read Important Classic Investment Books, such as –
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham (1949)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay (1841)

Evaluate yourself and your circumstances – your financial, emotional and time resources; your financial resources, obligations, needs and limits; your time horizon for individual investments and your overall portfolio and financial life.

From that point you will have important decisions to make about how you want to proceed. What those decisions are will become clearer to you by doing the above. There is no one way, except the way that fits you best.

Regardless of what you decide, you will need to do these things:

Open Account(s) with major discount brokers (such as Schwab) and/or major no-load organization (such as Vanguard) – or if you will be in futures, with a major futures broker (such as Lind-Waldock), or if in currency with a major retail platform (such as Deutsche Bank FX)

Subscribe to an independent online analysis service, such as S&P Outlook or ValueLine for individual stocks, and such as Morningstar for mutual funds, or an array of commodity and/or currency data and opinions depending on what area you will pursue, if you go that way.

For funds read the prospectuses. For individual stocks and bonds, read the annual reports (including notes).

That will give you a good start. The next set of questions will present themselves as you do those things.