subject: Create A Residual Second Income With Stock Market Trading [print this page] According to the figures published on the BBC website on 26 January 2010 that showed the GDP of the UK rose for the third month in a row, the country is officially out of the global recession.
Unfortunately, this does not mean that we can sit back and relax, as the repercussions of the recession mean that the country is still facing a lot of problems, which in turn are likely to have a direct effect on the vast majority of the population.
The unemployment rate, for example, according to the Office for National Statistics, was at a staggering 7.8 percent in January 2010. Going by the July 2008 estimation of the UK population, this equates to around 4.7 million people being without some form of employment.
Due to this reason, it is important that where possible, we all secure our finances and attempt to make ourselves as financially independent as possible.
One of the ways to do that is to begin earning a residual second income of some form and if you have some money available that would otherwise be earning only a minimal amount of interest on in a savings account (yet another effect of the recession), then you should take a look at trading on the stock market.
The first point to note here is that you should not automatically run away when you hear stock market trading. Whilst it may seem like a particularly complicated process and you believe that it can only be carried out by city professionals who have spent years learning their trade, this is not entirely true. Yes, these people who carry out trading on the stock market have gone through years of stock market training, but it must be put into perspective that it is their full time job and they are paid to trade successfully. For someone who only wants to trade occasionally to supplement their income, stock market training is needed on a smaller scale, no where near the same amount of money is needed and it can all be done relatively stress free from the comfort of your own home.
Beginning stock market training is actually particularly easy once you have spent the time learning about trading. Breaking the whole process down, you sign up to an online broker, deposit some funds, find the stocks you want to buy and let the broker do the rest.
Of course, finding the stocks you want to buy is considered by many to be the most complicated and risky part, but there are different styles of trading that you can take onboard to reduce the amount of risk involved.
Value traders, for instance, are those that look for cheap stocks, purchase them and wait for them to rise. Unlike a lot of traders who can buy or sell stocks regularly throughout the day, going on information that they receive from various sources, value traders simply buy cheap stocks and keep it until it begins to rise. Keeping an eye on affecting factors and information from the company that the stock is for might publish, they simply sell the stock when it has made them a profit. Risk averse and straightforward, value trading is by far the best way to go for those just entering the stock market.
We may be officially out of the global recession, but we are still going to feel the effects of it for several years. To ensure that you remain as financially comfortable as possible throughout this time, it is advised to diversify your income, such as by taking a look at stock marketing trading.
