I’m a 19 year old university (US) student majoring in finance. Per the finance curriculum, many accounting and economics courses must be completed before eventually commencing finance courses in one’s junior year. So, I have not read much of anything on finance, to my fault, and although I got an A in microecon., I did not learn or do much work. Essentially, I have little knowledge in investing and finance (applied micro).
I recently opened a TD Ameritrade brokerage account. I was thinking of selling a small portion of my current assets (own a large value of current and fixed assets in another country) to deposit a large initial sum to begin trading. The problem is, I don’t know the first thing about trading. Also, my university has 2 finance labs loaded with Bloomberg Terminals. At my dorm, all I have is a 14 day free trial of Money.net. What market data analytics platform do you day/individual traders use? BB’s software is above $20k a year, which is more than my post-aid tuition. If you individual traders use Bloomberg Terminals, you’re balling.
So, I think I should reread (or read for the first time, actually) my micro textbook (McConnell/Blue/Flynn), then what fundamental/principles of finance textbook do you guys recommend and is highly used at top educational institutions? All input is welcome.
Submitted December 08, 2017 at 11:25AM by QuantFIN http://ift.tt/2A6j5Y6
