Five Tips To Better Stock Investing

Just around the turn of the decade, I was questioning my many years of computer progamming and analysis and the growing difficulty of finding contracts and even salaried work. I entertained the notion of writing my broker's exam and even did a great deal of studying, as a supplement to developing some trading models I'd been working on since 1991.

I used the models to predict three of four market turns in 2000 but decided that being a stockbroker wasn't really what I wanted. I did learn a great deal about stock investing in the past decade: mostly that paper trades are often meaningless theory, and only by performing actual trades can you learn anything. And learn I did, from making some big mistakes. But it's best to get your failures out of the way early in your investment "career". Here are a few tips for better stock investing.