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Investing 101: Learning to Trade and Invest in an Online World | Breakout. For anyone over 30 the amount of information available online is overwhelming. Access to analyst research once required opening a brokerage account or having a well-placed source for leaks. Rumors were slowly disseminated and all but impossible to fact check. Flash crashes took days to develop. For teenagers like actress and editor of FoxonStocks.com Rachel Fox, when information is anything less than immediate, it is glacial.

Her generation is built for speed in an age where the only filters are those on Instagram ("Insty"). All she has to do now is figure out which of the infinite sites are value adding. In the attached clip, Fox shares three places she goes to help guide her as she teaches herself to invest and trade. [NOTE: The below sites have extensive free offerings. 1. The URL is a mouthful, but Fox says the site is a must for those trying to grasp the often impenetrable jargon and the patterns of technical analysis. 2. 3. Arts & EntertainmentMedia.

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Psychologist, Dr. Daniel Kahneman (The Nobel prize in economics - the field of behavioral economics) basically shows that investors are irrational, but predictably irrational. They continue to make the same mistakes over and over. One of the biggest is a common inability to take a loss: taking a loss is so painful, it is simply avoided. A trader's most valuable commodity is trading capital. What is the most important rule for a trader? Preserve your capital. The rules listed below are suggestions. 1. 2. 3. 4. A personal note on profit taking: There is no question that if you are disciplined enough to follow a plan such as the one outlined, it will improve your results.

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