Advice Please - Junior/Senior mechanical engineering student

I'm a junior/ senior mechanical engineering student in southern california. I've been more than interest in finance for quite some time but was a little bit too far into the engineering curriculum to change majors. I would really like to focus my time on learning how invest successfully and trading. What would be the best way to go about accomplishing this? books? i would like to learn the fundamentals on how to choose a successful stock. Also if you can explain how all of you learned how to trade would be terrific. Thanks Guys

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Trading and investing are somewhat different animals. Finance in general is a huge area. Are you interested in entering and exiting the markets quickly via signals, economic data, etc? Or are you thinking about digging through corporate statements and making a decision based on comps/discounted cash flows (company fundamentals)? For starters, I suggest that you take a look at either the Vault or WetFeet guides on finance/IB/trading/etc. to find out the different divisions in finance. Then, you can hone in on what you're really interested in.

 

thanks badatadvice!!! Awesome name by the way. I'm actually interested in both. I would prefer to be well-rounded and know when to use one or the other. what area of finance are you in?

 

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