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Ok, I'm gonna give this Stock market a shot.

I want to read up on it first. No jumping in blindly for me.

Any book recommendations? I'm off to Borders tomorrow

Jim Kramer? Warren Buffet? Jason Kelly? Farleigh? Idiots guide? (yeah mvscal, save it)
Then there is this ssite:

http://books.global-investor.com/pages/ ... 5706927080


I have about 5K to start. but nothing gets invested until I know what I'm doing (again, save it, post monkeys)

Scott, Your thoughts?

Tough to say which book to recommend until I know what you want to do.

Are you wanting to buy and hold for a long term?

Trade in and out?

Here's a couple I really like:

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
(A Marketplace Book)
by Edwin Lefèvre

Investor's Business Daily Guide to the Markets by Investor's Business Daily

How To Make Money In Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, 3rd Edition by William J. O'Neil (Paperback - May 23, 2002)

Don't know what I want to do yet either, but I'll figure it out.

Here are the books I picked up for about 40 bucks total:

The Motley Fool Investment Guide by David and Tom Gardner.

The Successful Investor by William O'Neil

Understanding Stocks by Michael Sincere

I passed on Jim Cramers Real Money for now, as I felt that I needed some more base understanding of things and he was working at the next level up, and in more of a narrative story telling style.

Plus at $26 bucks a pop, I didn't think his book was that good of an investment at this point. :)

The books I picked were not only more affordable but provide a fairly broad range, if somewhat overlapping view of investing in a style I will absorb well.

A lot of the other books there were more about people hawking their own specific techniques rather than the bare bones of the market and investing.

Should take me a couple of weeks to get through them all, then it's off to the brokerage.