Hello group,

I want to transfer my Roth IRA from AIM Investments to TradeKing.  Will my stock account be separate from my Roth IRA?  Any one know the answer?  Thank you.

Hi All,

Excited to be part of the group. I've been doing alot of reading on what to do and not to. Although I always feel the best knowledge out there to learn is on this Street.

My question is: How do you know if you have enough capital to begin buying stocks. Is there a boiler plate $?  

I can say that I got started investing with 100 bucks and 25 free trades from USAA in January. I know that sounds ridiculously small (it is). I obviuosly have siphoned a tad more money into my investment account. I have put 500 bucks in my brokerage to date, and I sold all of my holdings for a total of 688 and some change. 11.95 a trade would have killed all profit and made my account negative. Now that I have my feet wet and know just enough to be dangerous to myself, I am firing USAA (although they are a pretty decent company) because I don't make enough trades to get the cheap 5.95 rate. You have to make 25 trades per quarter. At any rate, from my tax rebate and money from other brokerage I'll at least be over the 1k mark...

Now I'm here at tradeking. I'm still learning but I would say start with whatever you are comfortable losing! Then you should still use stop-losses. Learn as much as you can before beginning.

Now to throw my stupid noobie question out, how many of you seasoned guys feel about fundamentals vs. technicals. I started out paying attention to nothing but fundamentals, printing off balance sheets and studying them with my investing for dummies book. As I've gotten my feet wet, I am learning that fundamentals should be looked at before even considering a stock but technicals are helpful to study and know when to buy/hold/sell and where resistance is. Does any of the seasoned investors invest strictly off of fundamentals, or do most use a combo approach using funds and techs? Thanks gang...

I have read several books and have been investing for a couple of weeks.  I have read the following:

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

The little Book of Value investing

Jim Cramers: "Real Money, Sane investing in an insane world"

WIlliam Oniel "How t make money in stocks"

I am currenlty reading The "Warren Buffe Way"

I also have a copy of the 1934 Ben Graham Book "Secuirty Analysis"

Does anyone have any suggestion on other good books to read.  Personally I liked Jim Cramer and William ONielss books, the other two were ok.  Just wanted to get some opinions on outside reading that would be valuable.