Part one of term paper
If playing the stock market were an easy game, everyone would be rich. Whether an investor to chooses invest very actively, or long term, it is a game of mentality. During a economics course in college a professor will fill the board with algebraic expressions & economic gibberish, intended to explain exactly how the financial markets work. ...

Part two of term paper
... deciding what stocks will be the big winners. A novice investor might go with a recommendation they read in an investment magazine or off of a web site. Another common choice is to ask their broker, a broker who gets most of their investment opinions from their firms analyst. Not that analysts are bad but they usually change their opinion on a company the day after a company releases good or bad earnings, in other words their recommendations come about one day late. A more informed or confident ...