-First, look to trade in penny stocks only, in the beginning.  A penny stock is a stock that’s priced $5 or under per share.  So a penny stock is good for any beginner, as the amount required to invest is very low, so this will be a very low risk investment.  Until you know what you’re doing, you should definitely try to keep things low risk.

-Find yourself a good stock trading website, or software for your computer.  Read up and do your research and choose one that you feel you can trust.  Here is where you’ll look to find a few penny stocks to start investing.

-Use your stock trading software to find penny stocks, from there do your research into the stocks that interest you.  It’s good to know who you’re investing with, as the stock market shouldn’t just be a guessing game for you.  Find stocks that you actually believe in enough to deserve your investment.  Pick ones that you believe will grow, and give you a decent return on that invested money.

-Try to join a group or forum that regularly discusses which stocks they feel are set to succeed. Learn from them as you make your own personal decisions.  Any advice you can get, or research you can do is invaluable when you are just starting in the market.

-Finally, watch your stocks carefully.  Pay attention to what’s doing with your money at all times, it’s just good policy, no matter how much money you have invested.  As you feel more comfortable, and develop a sense for the market you can try investing more money, beyond penny stocks.  Just be careful and make sure not to over invest.  Nothing is guaranteed in the stock market, and participate responsibly and carefully, always.

I am sure you’ve heard of de.li.cio.us. It redirects to delicious.com, but as a .us domain and social bookmarking site, I can’t help thinking that their creativity was first sparked from the lack of interesting domain names available. If you can take something short and to the point from your search on word navigator, your next step would be to check it’s availability. The following guidelines can speed up the process:

• Since there are 3,563 words that end in -us at the time of this posting, the easiest thing to do would be to copy and paste each list (by length) into a text document, which took me about 7 minutes. You probably won’t take as long, if you copy and paste only half of all the words.
• In the document, click Edit and Select All. Proceed to toggle the bullets off. Then use Ctrl+F and type us into the search box. Click on Find All. You will notice that the -us ending has been selected for all of the words. Now click on Replace All. Your document should no longer have any of the -us endings.
• If your document is 75 pages long, perhaps it would be best to weed out words before continuing. Or you can copy and paste the words in only chunks (maybe 30 words) at a time into this domain name regristration search (clicking on the us extension, while unselecting the com extension), so that your internet browser doesn’t freeze up during the process.

Of the first thirty words I submitted, 14 were available. Here is my example chunk with unavailable .us domain names crossed out:

fagaceo.us                          furacio.us
felonio.us                          furfuro.us
feracio.us                          garrulo.us
ferocio.us                          gingero.us
fervoro.us                          glaireo.us
filaceo.us                          glamoro.us
flavoro.us                          globulo.us
fractio.us                          gluteno.us
frivolo.us                          glutino.us
froufro.us                          granulo.us
fugacio.us                          gummato.us
fulgoro.us                          gumptio.us
fulguro.us                          hazardo.us
fulmino.us                          hilario.us

Honestly, if I were a business looking for an attractive and modern domain name, gumptio.us would be my first pick! If you don’t know, gumptious is an adjective that means enterprising (synonym to energetic, industrious, up-and-coming). Or how about furacio.us? Hurry up, domain names like these will soon fill up the Web 2.0 (or is it 3.0) scene! If you really don’t care what the domain name is and just want to set something up quickly, your best bet would be to submit one or two words into a domain name suggestion tool.