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Investing is a complicated process that involves both skill and luck. Picking the best stock investments is difficult to do even if you have years of experience and training. However, if you educate yourself on your investing options as well as seek out professional advice you can take calculated risks that will hopefully pay off. The first step in selecting the best stock investments for you is to learn what your options are. Your first option is to invest in the stock market. You can research and buy stocks online or your can trade stocks via a stock broker. Your…

Investment fraud is not limited to stock frauds and securities fraud. Instead it spans a wide spectrum of scams that include invention scams and rare item investment scams. The scope of investment scams has reached epic proportions with millions of dollars being fraudulently stolen from consumers each year. If you want to protect yourself from investment frauds and scams that you need to learn how to identify the warning signs of a potential scam. The first warning sign is that the offer sounds too good to be true. The second warning sign is that the seller of the offer is…

The Securities and Exchange Commission, also referred to as the SEC, was created back in 1934 by section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. It was created to regulate the securities industry, protect investors from fraud, as well as to enforce federal securities laws. Some of the federal securities laws that are enforced by the SEC include: the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Securities and Exchange Commission requires public companies in the United States…