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14 years old and you are interested in the stock market? Wow, that must be some paper route you have.
The main thing to know about the market is that people make money from people who have less knowledge, experience and information than they do. In your case, who might such people be?
Actually, you are spared from such folly at this stage because you cannot enter into a contract until you are 18.

Try, you can also ask a lot of questions on the site and get quick answers for the sites community

Try nocostinvest.com to schedule an free seminar. I can also help. But not sure about teh age requirements. You can talk to someone in some brokerage firm like Ameritrade.

do you have any money? is it money you can afford to lose? if not I would start reading up on the stock market but put your money in CDs or high yield savings for now.

I think it’s great that you’re getting into stock investing. And certainly, it’s always great to practice before taking the plunge fully.

However, be aware that paper trading with no money and actually investing with your own real money are two different things. They may seem like they are the same, but many first-time investors get overcome by their emotions when they first start investing with their own money, even if they’ve practiced first with paper trading.

When you’re paper trading, your emotions aren’t in full force since you have nothing to lose except maybe some bragging rights if “your” stocks go down. However, if you’ve got real money on the line, you’ll find that you start valuing things differently and your emotions get in the way a lot more frequently.

You might be “afraid to lose” so you sell too quickly. Or if it’s your own money, you might see a great company at a great bargain, but you’re afraid to actually buy the stock because you don’t want to lose your money.

The best way to become a better investor is to actually get in the game. That way, you start to learn how to invest with your emotions in full force, and you learn how to check them at the door when following your investment strategy.

You can open a brokerage account with very little money, and start investing. Now, again, I would take some time to learn what your investment strategy should be (the one that fits your risk tolerance, etc.).

I’m a big advocate of value investing (finding the right companies to invest in, buying them at the right prices, and only selling when they become overvalued…). There are a lot of great resources out there to get started in value investing (I have a number of my favorites on my website…)

Hope this helps, and good luck!

I don’t know what you have to invest, but I wouldn’t try putting any money in until you read something or attend schooling, trading seminars, or webinars, you are 100% guaranteed to lose money fast.

The book that made me understand the basics of the market is “Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, Sane Investing in an Insane World” good thing about the book…It’s not boring as hell. (for an investing book)

If you don’t read William J. O’neil’s How To Make Money In Stocks, you’re definitely cheating yourself but check out the other one first, if you’re 14, it’ll sound like alot of jibberish until your familiar with terms. I’d love to sit here and actually explain some stuff, but it would take a long time.

go to this cheap website for books, some of them cost like $1 some may run ten or so.

Good luck!

I suggest Motleyfool.com to learn all you can. You need your parents to open a broker account. The best bet is to find a crappy stock under $10 (most are) and short it (that is bet it will go down). Even if you get unlucky and it shoots straight up, I guarantee you it will crash just as fast. Most stocks just plain suck.

the best by far is theupdown.com for the beginner, it allows for easy communication with groups and individual players. also the motleyfool caps section is agreat way to start both are free. If you join theupdown, join the group “going global’ and we would be happy to assist you getting started. I am rabidtigerfan on both sites….Goodluck