Knowledge truly is power when it comes to investing. In this lesson, we'll tell you where to concentrate your efforts.

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Ratios are a common tool for relating a stock's price with some part of the underlying company's performance. We will look at several.

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Find an investment professional with your best interests in mind, and learn how to use the basic trading mechanics.

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Small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap refer to size; they are very important terms to know when investing in stocks.

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You can learn a lot about a potential investment by reading its company prospectus. Learn in this tutorial what you can gain from reading a prospectus. Risk factors, dividend policy, and dilution information are some of what you will learn about in a typical prospectus. The tutorial closes with a look at how you can use this information to help you evaluate a stock.

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No study of investing is complete without learning about stocks. This tutorial is a very basic look at them.

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Learn what makes growth stocks so vital to so many investors’ financial dreams. They have many benefits, but also some downsides.

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Let's examine classes of stock most commonly used by investors, such as blue chips, growth stocks, income stocks, and value stocks.

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Dividend reinvestment plans give investors the option of reinvesting their dividends in additional shares of stock.

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Learn where to buy stocks, how to choose a broker, and how to set up an account and make trades.

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