<prompt> Human: Im a college student with 1000 to safely work with, and I want to get started with swing trading. I have no prior experience with stocks but Im looking for short term trading because I want to gain some experience in the market and practice a bit, I learn best by doing.How to know when to buysell? Good resources and tools for research? Best online broker to start with? How to allocate my money? Predicting trends? Absolutely any advice andor thoughts on starting out would be greatly appreciated. edit: I do not mean day trading, but rather holding stocks for no more than a couple weeks  <response>: Take 50 and buy a hammer. Hit yourself in the nuts a few times with the hammer. Welcome to day trading. Now take the remaining 950 and buy a reasonable investment. 