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How To Play The Stock Market

Many people today want to know how to play the stock market to achieve financial success and freedom. Let’s be honest-nobody wants to make money just to have more green pieces of paper.

They want the money so hat they can do something with it (i.e. buy that new house or car, travel, etc). There are very few outlets that offer the potential to do so as quickly a the stock market.

However, when done wrong, the market can also cause your financial destruction. Here are some tips for learning how to play the stock market and achieve financial freedom.

First of all, before you even begin learning about how to play the stock market, you need to know how to speak in money terms. This simply means being able to read a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement of a company.

Without being able to determine the health of a company, you will never be able to tell whether or not it’s a good investment. So may people only buy a stock based on its’ price, and with complete disregard or how financial sound the company is-a sure way for financial suicide.

Once you’ve determined that a company is financially sound, and you’ve valued the company, now its’ time to look at the market value.

The way to go about this is beyond the scope of this article; very few investors can agree on a surefire way to value a company. For a great resource to determine this, check out the book Buffettology.

However, the way to tell what the market values it at is to simply multiply the stock price by the number of shares outstanding (shares in the market today).

If the price the market is valuing the company at is less than what you’ve determined the company to be worth, and the company has exhibited a long history of consistent profitability, now would probably be a good time to buy.

When you learn how to play the stock market in this manner, and only focus your investments on companies with sound financial backgrounds, you an virtually eliminate the usual risks associated with the stock market and also name the return you want to get.