First Time Investor Questions?

They have a due date and would have to be as soon as the Dec. 31 or Q report. It has to be disclosed immediately. For a first time investor it would be better to own a standard established stock, that is not going out of business. Blue Chip stocks or Johnson & Johnson, Walt Disney Co., Coca-Cola or Pepsi, Exxon Mobil Corp. Still you have to make decisions on your own because Citigroup Inc. and General Motors Corp. are also listed as Blue Chip. Stay away from seasonal stocks such as Airlines and retail stores except maybe Walmart. These types of stocks only do well during Christmas and vacation seasons if they don't go out of business.

If it ended on December 31st it would be the end of Q4. Q4's statement is made sometime near the beginning or middle of Q1. Q1's statement is made sometime near the beginning middle of Q2. Q stands for quarter, their are four Qs a year.

As for your second and third questions...

Benjamin Graham and his protege Warren Buffett have stated everything you need to know about investing. Everything else is noise, (except for what I typed below). Graham has the greatest books on the subject. Buffett has YouTube clips, interviews, essays, (though he talks mainly about taxes lately).

How much should you put aside? As much as you won't need over a course of years.

Buying stocks is generally a dumb idea. Most people don't think of it as buying a company. If you look at it this way you can tune the market out and not pay attention to what price it is offering you for the stock. Identify a company with a solid record of earnings that will be able to survive any competition or hardship for as long as you're alive. Buy it bit by bit during the next market panic, and you can be sure there will be one, which leads me to my next topic.

Over in Europe they have this thing called the Euro. If the Euro comes apart the world economy comes apart.

Underneath us is $700 trillion in derivatives. If it becomes worthless, everything could lose it's monetary value.

For a long time now policy makers/ central bankers have flooded markets with cash to manage down cycles in the economy. Those bad economic times that we used money printing presses to fix, could cause deflation, or inflation from hell.

Right now KEEP YOUR CASH as CASH. Buy a KO or WFC if the whole stock market drops a third.

Or. KEEP YOUR CASH as CASH, Study the doomsday scenarios I described above, Learn how to use 'put options', open an options trading account with a broker, keep an eye on Zerohedge.com, buy options on the VXX and SPY when the worst happens.

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