In economics, investing is the active redirecting resources from being consumed today so that they may create benefits in the future; the use of assets to earn income or profit.[1]Investing is the process of making an investment in order to earn a profit, for example equity investment either through a fund, a 401k plan, or individually. People often invest in order to build up their estate or to accumulate funds for retirement.

To try to predict good stocks to invest in, two main schools of thought exist: technical analysis and fundamentals analysis.