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- Set your investment goals: write down your financial goals
- Set up your online brokerage account: so you can buy and sell your own shares
- It’s time to do your research and then buy a share
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Your Ultimate Guide to Starting on the Stock market
Getting started in the stock market
Investing in shares can seem daunting at the start and in our experience, the hardest step is hitting buy on your first share. Use these 3-steps.
Lesson: Diversification
You don’t put all your eggs into one basket
Own shares in a variety of companies that operate in different industries. That might mean investing directly in stocks, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, or index funds.
Diversification is a proven way to reduce your risk.
We recommend a minimum of 7-15 small cap stocks in any portfolio.
Follow our step-by-step guide on how to building wealth from scratch in the stock market with our $500 strategy.
Lesson: start small
Our key message to beginners is to start small and to purchase small parcels of shares in quality companies over time.
Build up your portfolio over time. We like to buy slowly into a stock and to build confidence. Start buying in small parcels, watch your portfolio’s performance (it’s really easy on your trading app) and follow our clear Buy, Sell and Hold recommendations. Follow our $500 strategy and we are with you each step of the way.
Why Choose
Under the Radar Report?
1yrs
Founded in 2011.
1.1%
Average return on all 300 Small Caps
1%
Stocks Taken Over
Asset prices have more than doubled in the past seven to ten years, while income levels have barely moved. People are going up the risk curve to get more bang for their buck.
Richard Hemming
Editor
Need some help? Start with our $500 strategy.
How much money should I invest in each stock?
What is the right size holding for you?
Review your financial goals and please seek financial advice as you need it.
You can start with as little as $500. Consider also the return you are seeking.
if the share goes up 10%, 30% or 100% what would your return be on your original investment? Is it a $300 profit on a $1,000? What if you had invested $500? Consider what is the right size of holding for you.
FAQs
ASX Returns
Banks are a safe deposit for your money. But with record low interest rates, your money is losing value and is not keeping up with inflation. You need to make your money work for you.
You can start building your share portfolio, one company at a time. You can also start small and add to that holding over time to build up a solid core portfolio.
- In the share market, Small Caps are cheaper and you can buy a meaningful parcel with less cash.
- Over 90% of our small cap stocks had a market price of less than $5 a share when we first recommended them. Over 50% pay dividends too.
- Find out more about small cap investing.
One of the first steps to start building an investment portfolio is choosing an online trading platform and then setting up a trading account. You can use a full-service stockbroker for buying and selling individual stocks or an exchange traded fund but most beginners and active investors now make the trades themselves from their online account on an app on their phone.
CommSec is the market leader. The other giants are Bell Direct, NabTrade, CMC Markets. There are lots of smaller ones too.
Consider the cost of each trade. You can place a trade for as little as $5 depending on the size of your investment.
We really encourage you to follow our plan in our $500 strategy for $99. Or get the first 3-months of the plan, which includes easy steps on how to place a trade in our research starter-pack.
Tip:
When placing a trade you are asked to enter a buying price by $ limit or market.
This is what price you are prepared to pay per share. You can just select ‘at market’ and the trade will go through as soon as it can at the market price.
If you choose a limit you put in the price you are prepared to pay for the shares. Your share trading screen will have a depth screen to see the number of buyers, the volume and price and the sellers volume and price. This will give you a sense of where the market is heading.
The ASX historically goes up 9 out of every 10 years.
Investing in shares makes your money work harder for you. It will build wealth while helping you with your financial goals. It is an opportunity to earn a better income and a chance for capital growth. The post Covid world remains uncertain. Think what your future self needs. Then decide if you can afford for your money to sit in the bank? Your investment decisions today can shape your tomorrow.
Be Prepared
Remember not every stock will go up, so you should build a portfolio approach. It’s also important to sell and to take profits along the way.
Our advice is if there is a move of 20% or more in the share price it’s decision time. Follow our advice and our clear buy, sell and hold in our research reports.
There are over 2,000 shares listed on the stock market. Most people are looking to reduce risk and build wealth over time.
To reduce risk, beginners need independent research to know the company you are investing in is a quality company that is well run and profitable. You want to make quality investments and we can help you do that.
We encourage investors who are starting out to build a strong core portfolio first, starting with Blue Chips. Follow our $500 strategy and we show you how.
Our Best Stocks to Buy Now table in our Small Cap report each week makes it really easy to search and choose which stock to invest in. These are the stocks that our analyst team believe offer the best risk/reward return. The performance from these stocks is exceptional!
All the research is done with easy to read and clear recommendations and potential risks, reviewed and ready for you.
You can either choose a quantity of shares i.e 100 or 1,000 or purchase by amount, i.e $1,000 or $2,500.
It is a personal preference whether you trade shares to the nearest round dollar or by the number of shares, but most fund managers would own a round number of shares rather than a round dollar amount at purchase.
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