Everyone is talking about. It seems to be the lifeblood of the economy. It’s the Stock Market. If you want to make money in the stock market, you have to be in it to win. You can’s be risk adverse. If you’re risk adverse, you need to stick to playing nickel slots at the casinos with the blue haired ladies.

Back to the stock market. If you want to get rich in the stock market you need to read some books and learn how it operates. You can’t just open a newspaper and start picking. Well, you can, but then you are just on the road to losing all your money. I had a cousin that thought he was going to get rich in the stock market. He put $25,000 in a stock and lost almost all of it. IF you want to make money in the stock market you have to do your research like I said. Another way to learn about the stock market is to take some college classes at you local community college. They usually have some type of continuing education program where you can learn everything about the basics of making money in the stock market, to options trading and all sort of other angles.

Also if you want to make money in the stock market, don’t buy any of the prepackaged “red light/green light” software. Unless it can predict the future, it’s worthless. No to mention it’s also expensive.

May people who want to make money in the stock market also choose to go with an online broker house. These can be anything along the lines of Etrade and Ameritrade. When shopping around for a broker house to make money in the stock market, keep your eye on trade fees. The fees can quickly add up and eat into your profits of you trade too often. So if you tend to shuffle your stock around and you’re not a long term investor, you want to keep these fees to a minimum.

Don’t listen to friends who have “tips” on how to make money in the stock market. Most people like to brag and don’t know what they are talking about. If they are making so much money in the stock market, they would not be working a 9 - 5 job and standing around a water cooler talking about how they are making so much money in the stock market.

Opening an broker account is not difficult. You request and application or fill out an online form. Most houses have an online application or they will request that you visit a nearby brokerage office. Then you just simply open the account. They will probably have a minimum account amount that you need to start with. It’s usually around $2,000 - $5,000. So you see, if you want to start making money in the market, all you need is around $2,000. Who knows, you could possible multiply that into several thousand dollars and eventually become a stock market tycoon like Warren Buffet, who’s the richest man in the world.

But back to making money in the stock market. These are tough times to be trying to make money in the stock market. The Dow Jones is getting hammered and people who don’t know what they are doing are getting their accounts wiped out. Just today the Dow Jones Industrial is down almost 300 points, so anyone that has money in the stock market is pretty much losing at this stage. So those who are trying to make money in the market better know what they are doing. Especially with it being an election year. This tends to make the stock market more like banking in a bad neighborhood. You don’t want to go there, but you have to at some point. You just need to know what you’re doing.

Another way to learn how to make money in the stock market is to play with “fake” money. In effort to get your business, most online brokerages will have a “free” way to play fake money in the stock market. You pick your stocks and they give you an account with “fake” money. So when you pick bad stocks, you don’t lose anything. And when you pick good stocks, you don’t make anything. It’s all about the learning experience.

So if you want to make money in the stock market, you need to buy some books, take a college continuing education class or play with the fake accounts you can set up with the online brokerage houses.