Hi Ozzy! :welcome 500% returns are definitely good. The research you want to is pretty easy. You want to understand what the company does to make their money, so you need to learn their business model. You also can examine their numbers. You're looking for companies that make high net profits because their margins are good.
A mutual fund is a fund where loads of people basically, as i've understood it, give their money to this fund, where this one guy, or a team of guys or whatever, with this fund, buy specialised category of stocks (for ex: only bluechips, or CAC40 stocks, etc). So, as I see it, its kind of like buying a stock with low risk and gain factors... probably the best thing to do if you want to make some money safely without much effort or too much risk. Thats how I've understood it from my Dad's explanation anyway ( I happend to ask him myself before reading this post, lol).
heh! but i dont understand how it hjas a price like a certain stock? like some mutual funds say like 35% return but its a stcok so what does that mean? the stock went uo 35% ?
That's exactly what a return is. If you have $1,000 invested and the stock price jumps and you sell it for $1,350, you now have a 35% return. Mutual Funds track their returns from all the purchase and sales prices.