Warren Buffet and other professional investors have recently urged individuals to invest in stocks. Mr. Buffet has a history of investing in strong brand names with strong balance sheets. He has been able to secure high dividend yields by providing capital to distressed blue chip companies. However, unlike Warren Buffet you probably don't have the ability to negotiate special dividend returns for your investment of capital.

"Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it." Peter Lynch

CONGRATULATIONS! By reading this article you are taking the first step toward becoming a successful investor. Despite what you think, investing is fun and easy. Society leads us to believe that buying and selling stocks is difficult and arcane; we are trained to believe that we need experts to help us because successful trading is over our heads.

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demosthenes (384 BC-322 BC)

Fortunately,for the savvy investor, the Internet has tipped the scales in his favor. Online trading and investing has leveled the playing field and allowed the little guy the opportunity to show up the established big boys on Wall Street.

The individual investor can receive the same instantaneous real-time information and trade execution that used to be the purview of large institutional trading operations.