I just graduated college and have started working full time recently. I want to start making wise investment decisions with my money and would like to get into the US stock market. I figured since i'm young that I could take on more risk than usual but I dont want to go in blindly. I just dont know how to start looking for companies to buy stock in and I just dont want to go buying blindly...
everyonerich
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what if i tell you taking advice from internet is same as buying 'blindly'? 
Get off this forum. What platform do suggest to this guy? GNU trade perhaps?....
Mods should take a look at his threads. All spamming GNU.
nile_croc
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Here's the deal: don't invest in individual stocks unless you're a professional, period.
For someone such as yourself, what you may want to do is start by setting up a ROTH IRA (assuming you meet the IRS eligibility requirements, you will need to check on this). Give T. Rowe Price (T. Rowe Price) or Vanguard a call and ask them to send you a ROTH IRA kit. You can set up a monthly bank draft, say $50 bucks a month to go into a mutual fund. You might want to look at a Target Risk fund, or Target Dated fund, i.e. a Retirement 2050 fund, etc. These types of mutual funds do all the work for you as far as portfolio mix, etc. I wouldn't even mess with trying to watch CNBC, reading trading magazines, etc.
You might also want to pick up a good Dave Ramsey book at Borders, they're not very exciting, but you can learn a lot about investing, saving, managing your debt, etc. which is what it seems you're interested in. There's also some good personal finance magazines (as opposed to trading) as well: Kiplingers, Smart Money, and Money.
Good luck to you!
Take care
arabianights
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I suggest you sink all your money into 10 random pink sheets
