Investing 101

[bbgold]

That's a Good question
The first thing that you need to decide, before you commit any cash, would be What you would like to learn about. Are you interested in investing or trading Stocks? If that is the case then is there a specific company that you are interested in or just want to learn about the general process of investing or trading? I have run across a few good learning websites in the past but will need to see if I can find them again. If you are interested in learning then I would suggest starting with a book on trading or investing. Take a trip to the library and see what you can find. I started out by jumping into investing without really doing much reading about it first. That was a mistake on my part as I learned a lot of lessons from experience and they were costly. There is a lot of good information on the internet also so you might want to try a Google search to see what websites come up. Here is a link to the New York Stock Exchange education section
http://www.nyse.com/getstarted/getstarted.html
I would say to find as much educational information as you can and read as much as you can before you start thinking about the money part. A good timeframe for learning could be as much as a year of paper trading and learning. It just depends on how well informed you want to be about what you are going to be doing. If I find any other good websites or message boards for starting out I will put them up. Definitely do some searching on the internet and the library before buying any books or trading systems IMO. I hope this helps :^)