investing

While not a common site a few decades ago, mutual funds are now one of the most common ways that people invest in stocks and other assets. Mutual funds allow the investors money to be pooled and then distributed over several investments. This allows diversification with less money than would have been required otherwise. For example, while it would take considerable money to buy even dollar amounts of all the S&P 500 stocks, you can buy a fund that allows you small portion of them evenly weighted.

Investing is a field which generates a tremendous amount of research and analysis. The desire to make the most of one's investment funds leads to a wide variety of options for investments. Each of these types of investments have various techniques for analyzing them.

While technical analysis may have little in common with a cash flow analysis of a company, both are tools for deciding if an investment is desirable. Moreover many of the same techniques can be applied to very dissimilar assets. There are also many services providing this type of research and analysis.