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Monday, September 28, 2009

Retirees and Online Stock Trading

By Owen Jones

Retirement comes with a benefit and a drawback: more time and less money. The discovery of the Internet has changed the way we conduct our lives. We can take care of our bills online, go shopping online, do our banking online, and even make a date online!

You can also participate in online stock investing, which I think, could fit in nicely. Online stock investors like having the ability to look at their investment accounts whenever they want to, and online stock brokers love having the capability to take orders over the Internet, as opposed to using the telephone.

You can start by reading the newspapers and watching the news with a view to gleaning information that could benefit a company. Any news items that suggest good news for a company can be followed up by greater research into the company concerned. The majority of stock brokers and brokerage houses now provide online company research to their customers as well as online stock trading. Another great thing about online stock trading is that fees and commissions are often lower. While online stock trading is good news, there are some negative aspects too.

If you are brand new to investing, having the ability to actually speak with a stock broker can be very beneficial, if you aren't stock market savvy, online stock trading may be a rather risky thing for you to do, although advice from a stock market trader is expensive. If this is the case, make sure that you learn as much as you can about trading stocks before you start online stock trading. In this case, make sure that you learn as much as you can about researching companies and trading stocks before you start online stock trading for real.

You could control a dummy portfolio. For instance, many online stock brokers offer the chance to run a 'watch list' or dummy portfolio, where you can 'buy and sell' without risking your pension!

You ought also to be aware that not everyone has a computer with Internet access on them all the time, although many mobile phones can get online, so you might not always have the ability to go online to make a trade. You will need to be sure that you can telephone and talk with a broker if you use an online stock broker. This is the case whether you are an experienced stock market trader or only a beginner.

It is important too for the retired person to go with an online stock broking company that has been in business for a while. Naturally, you won't find one that has been in an online business for 30-50 years, but you can find a company that has been in business that long and that now offers online stock investing.

Sure, online stock trading is a wonderful thing for the retired - but it is not for everyone, the impetuous can lose money quickly. Think long and hard before you decide to opt for buy stock online, and be sure that you really know what you are doing!

So, in summary, retired people can use their free time to explore the stock market free of charge by getting leads from newspapers and news programmes. These leads can be followed up by online research using a free online stock broker account.

These hunches can then be tracked using a dummy or trial portfolio. When you have gained sufficient experience, you can go 'live' by opening an active online stock investing account. - 23208

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