What are some tips for choosing a stock as a beginning investor?

This is my view, to began with;

1. Choose well rounded growth stock.

2. Stay away from the stock of the week that TV shows and magazine will hype up.These could leave you holding the bag.

3. Due your own research, annalist need to move a stock so they will put information before and after earnings just to get
people to buy

Proper study should be required about actual need of customer.
Common Choice product should be preserved in sound quantity.
Avoid to choice new product frequently.
Stock should be taken from reputed concern.

There's no room here to really answer that question.

Read Jason Kelly's NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO STOCK MARKET INVESTING.

That's the shortest best answer you can find.

How I Made 120 In The Stock Market In 6 Weeks Working A Day Job
By: Alexander Chambers

You should read as much as possible and learn, learn, learn. Then, get a paper-trading account (like Monopoly money...) at a brokerage. optionsXpress has a very, very good one that is as close to the real thing as you can get.
Do that until you have a relatively "proven" system, then start small and slow with real money. In the meantime, open the account and pump as much money into it as you can until you feel comfortable trading real money.
Don't be in a hurry. Paper-trading is in many ways more exciting than trading real money because, even though you gt to play the game, you never lose a single dime doing it.

Best of luck to you!

Well, the past 5 years have been interesting for me in the markets. Here's what i would tell you:

1. Be diversified, the market runs in secular patterns, and sometimes you will get in a situation where the market can't decide where to go. Pick at least 4-5 stocks and invest in each of those in different sectors ex: Drugs, Oil, Tech, Retail, Industrials

2. Pick a stock with good prospects. Listen to the Quarterly Conference calls that are available from each company, find out what the company's future prospects are, find out if they are growing their business and product lines, and pick a stock in a good sector as well.

3. Be patient. Sometimes, you will miss out on trades that you don't have any control over. Don't beat yourself up when it happens...move on and find the next big trade.

4. Don't be greedy. When you have a nice gain (10%+) lock it in, and reinvest at the best time with the houses' money that you've gained.

5. Defend yourself. If you buy a stock, and can't give at least 3 good reasons to why you bought it...you're putting urself right in front of the cannon!

Hope all this helps,

Happy Trading
-Paul

P.S. here are some links below that you can go to for investment advice, ideas, and information

Without entering a complete education, you could find a stock with the following criteria:

1/NYSE stock

2/Follow common FUNDAMENTAL ANALYTICAL criteria for Sales/Book Value, Price/Book Value, Debt / Equity Ratio, Current Ratio

3/ Find RELATIVE STRENGTH Ratings on www2.barcharts.com Find a Relative Strength Quartile you are comfortable with.

4/ Purchase in segments: say 1/3 when daily stock price exceeds either moving average, 50 or 200, another 1/3 when the other of those averages are crossed to the upside, and the last 1/3 when the 50 day average crosses the 200 day average to the upside.

5/ As long as the RELATIVE STRENGTH is intact, purchase only on down days, or days of bad news.

6/ SELL when either the RELATIVE STRENGTH position of the stock degrades or the 10 week moving average of price is violated to the downside by the DAILY price.

7/ Alter these parimeters once you have learned how to manipulate them, but do ALL THE HOMEWORK, often called Due Diligence before putting ANY MONEY DOWN

8/ REMEMBER, YOU LOSE MONEY IN THE STOCK MARKET THE Minute You Put Money into a stock.

YOU only make money when you sell a STOCK; so learning how to SELL a stock is MORE important than buying a stock..!!!

Good Luck

Don't don't don't. If you are a beginner and need to come here for tips then you should use a mutual fund.

Learn as much as you can from
http://www.fool.com
http://www.fool.co.uk
http://www.everyinvestor.com
http://www.investopedia.com
before doing paying anything...... also try playing around with one of the online stockmarket games for a few months.

Try these articles for size on how some of the big investors choose them:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/...
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Inve...
http://www.fool.com/school/basics/basics...

At the moment I'd suggest researching "Anheuser-Busch" (BUD), Walmart (WMT) + Water companies.