Comments on: The Simple Dollar Podcast #17: Investing in Stocks http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/09/22/the-simple-dollar-podcast-17-investing-in-stocks/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Daniel http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/09/22/the-simple-dollar-podcast-17-investing-in-stocks/#comment-779684 Daniel Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:41:48 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=4291#comment-779684 To me the most important thing by far is to get your costs down while investing.

That means:
1) avoiding high-fee mutual funds,
2) never paying up-front or back-end sales loads (a common feature of broker-sold funds),
3) sticking to index funds or low fee ETFs.
4) not overtrading your investment account beyond an annual rebalancing.
5) Using a reliable discount broker that charges low trading commissions.

Keep the informative podcasts coming Trent!

Dan
Casual Kitchen

]]> By: mewithoutdebt http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/09/22/the-simple-dollar-podcast-17-investing-in-stocks/#comment-779264 mewithoutdebt Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:02:27 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=4291#comment-779264 Thanks for the post. It is very timely post for me as I am just beginning to learn about investing.

]]> By: MoneyEnergy http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2009/09/22/the-simple-dollar-podcast-17-investing-in-stocks/#comment-779257 MoneyEnergy Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:48:11 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=4291#comment-779257 ETFs would be perfect if you didn’t have to pay commissions each time you wanted to buy some. I own some ETFs, but for really cheap investing I just use DRPs for free. I like researching my stocks, though, so this works out for me.

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