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Maybe this will answer your question: http://www.quora.com/Day-Trading/Where-can-I-learn-about-speculation-and-day-trading?q=how+to+learn+about+day+trading http://www.quora.com/Day-Trading/Where-can-I-learn-about-spe... Seems that you just want return without the excruciating work of a startup. And that's cool. So you want to invest in good companies and not trade more than twice a year. People who say stay out of the stock market don't understand what it's for - liquidity not return. If you want return, you have to buy cheap and sell high companies with high margins, low debt, great management and awesome economics. It's relatively easy once you've chosen your awesome companies, and valued them using common valuation models.