What is the difference between stocks,unit trust,funds and forex trading?? and how do i learn more bout them.? -

any website where i can learn about stocks and investment?? Learning the basics of fundamentals and technical analysis so you will be more informed in your investments. You can find all the basic info you need to learn on websites for free. This site should give you a good start. http://finance.yahoo.com/education If your current/future employer offers an employee 401k plan. Invest up to the matching % of your employers contribution. If plan offers an election to invest in a money market fund you may want to invest in it until you learn more. Next invest in a Roth IRA up to the max allowed(yearly). If you then have more money to invest, go back to your 401k plan and invest the max allowed(yearly). So after you do all the above and want to invest more you should be able to decide how. Only invest money that you can afford to lose. Making some quick money is nice but if you lose it, it gets right ugly. You may also think about ETF s instead of mutual funds, stocks. and options. http://finance.yahoo.com/etf Try what you learn on demo sites. They can be a very fun but educational way to learn from mistakes. If you pick 75% right with play money then you might be ready to start slowly investing. http://simulator.investopedia.com/ http://simulator.zacks.com/ http://www.fxcm.com/open-free-100k.jsp http://www.alpari-idc.com/en/metatrader4... Or just google for more. I use Lightning Strikes Trading System for trading in any time frame and it works on forex, stocks, bonds, etf s, mutual funds, etc... They have 3 free training sessions a week and you don t have to buy the software to join in the live chat and text. You can even watch some recorded past live sessions. Here are some past charts that I used. http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R0zjjaZ... http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16RxjOUQt... There are 7 indicators (2 short, 2 medium, and 3 long term) and if volume is reported another one is added (on balance volume). Plus whatever time-frame is used the 2 green horizontal lines are the support and resistance for that time frame. So when indicators are all touching the bottom price is at or very, very near support. At top is at or very, very near resistance. Which helps my entry/exits and risk/reward ratio. http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R9Wv-wt... http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MB16R9wSKdV... http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QCt6R2fYIj6... http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/QCt6R3R0VQe... If you can not view charts above I can email them. Here are my favorite sites. http://stockcharts.com/ Has basically all you need from fundamental to technical terms. Plus stock screens, charts, public chart lists, and much more useful info. https://www.fidelity.com/ Has good learning resources. http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp In addition to yahoo finance. http://www.reuters.com/ For news and more. http://www.marketwatch.com/default.aspx For news and more. http://www.valueprime.com/index.php For rating stock risk/reward ratio and reports. http://www.barchart.com/ For investing in more than stocks. http://www.investopedia.com/ For more great learning tools. http://www.lightninglive.com/ For best software timing your entry/exits any time frame for day traders and long term investors. Others worth exploring. http://www.equis.com/ http://www.stockta.com/ http://www.secform4.com/ Best Wishes, Burt Whitley Stocks= equity of a company; you share in the profits but are last in the list if the company goes bust. Unit trust is a closed end fund, a collection of stocks, actively managed, for which yo pay a fee (in the price), Funds, like un it trust but open ended, Forex trading in currencies. ie buying US$ against sterling. Have a look at http://www.shareworld.co.uk there are Qamp;A section. Try www.icicidirect.com Stock also called common stock is equity share capital, raised by a company through an IPO. As all companies are registered as going concerns , the life time of stock is theoretically infinite.The Stock may pay a dividend that is fixed by the board and can only be a proportion of Earnings after tax.These instruments have the highest risk, as if the company dissolves the equity shareholders are left with what remains after paing off all other liabilities. Unit Trusts are Trusts that accept investments and may invest them in different categories of instruments like Stocks ,bonds and money market instruments.The entire Portfolio is divided into small units and sold to the market.These are fairly of moderate Risk as the Risk is reduced through proper portfolio management in line with the Markowitz model. Money Market Funds are those that accept Money for Liquid investments in the Call Money Market. These are lent for a period as short as 1 day. They have the lowest level of Risk and are concidered risk free investments. Forex trading is the Trading or Exchange of Money in the Foreign markets they have several reasons of Trade and Economy that drives volatility.