Army of GOD wrote:BigBallinStalin wrote:lrn2finance?
You can start tooling around with whatever little money you've got, but that'll only be worth the learning experience (and maybe not because if you don't know what you're doing, then you'll probably be wasting your time. The people with the good advice would rather not talk about it because then their strategy spreads, so there would be less arbitrage opportunities for them).
If you want to earn more money, then (1) you'll need more money (i.e. get a better paying job), and then (2) invest it yourself after fuckin' up with the learning curve, or (3) benefit from the gains of trade (e.g. outsource to... oh I dunno, a guy who trades for a living?).
lrn2STATA + finance too.
You like contradict yourself. First paragraph: don't invest if you don't know what you're doing because you'll waste time. Second paragraph: invest and you'll learn.
You're overlooking important key words like "can," "probably," and "maybe." I bolded them for you, AoG!

Army of GOD wrote:There's no literature you can't point me to that talks about strategies or whatever?
STATAData Analysis Using STATA
Layman stuff (Not sure if at all good, but it's probably useful for better understanding the Basics and Advanced):
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Tenth Edition)
Basics:
Essentials of Corporate Finance (Ross)
Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money (Kidwell)
Principles of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (Ritter)
Fundamentals of Investments, Valuation and Management (Jordan & Miller)
Analysis for Financial Management (Higgins)
More Advanced:Intermediate Financial Management (Brigham)
Case Studies in Finance--Managing for Corporate Value Creation (Bruner)
Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation:
A Strategic Perspective (Wahlen)
Real Estate:Real Estate Investment (Phyrr)
International:
International Financial Management (Madura)
Good luck!
