Sign-up for legitimate seminars. Avoid seminars that promise get-rich-quick schemes or that claim you will never have to work again. Stock investing requires daily attention to stock markets, conducting heavy research into the viability of a company giving such a promise.
Assess your financial situation before attending the seminar. Review your bank accounts, any investment accounts and financial history. This will prime your mind for noting any frequent pitfalls you face while investing and prepare you for relating lessons to your personal experiences with money.
Take copious notes during the lecture. Write notes on hand outs to help you remember the lessons. Identify key words that will help you to remember instruction later. If writing notes word for word is not feasible, write down pithy statements that you wish to refer back to later. Lecture topics can include reading stock reports, researching companies for investment worth and rates of return on investments.
Ask any questions you may have. Due to the short nature of seminars, it is important for you to ask questions that arise in your mind during the seminar. Save any off-topic questions for the instructor for after the seminar has concluded. Keep questions on topic so that the teacher can continue to keep the seminar on track for time. On-topic questions will also help other students learn from the seminar. Questions may include things like "how long to hold onto a stock before selling it" and "the best time to buy stock".
Read all written material on stock investing provided in the seminar. Material may cover case studies of investors who took risks and won or cautionary tales.