investopedia.com & http://www.amazon.com/Neatest-Little-Guide-Market-Investing/dp/B003TO6DKK/ref=sr_1_10?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285552040&sr=8-10

Are the best ways to learn. Also, I would recommend making a td ameritrade account (even if you won't trade on it) because they have so much documentation for every step of the trading process. I learned quite a bit from investing a couple hundred dollars over a bunch of purchases and reading every help bar that I could find.