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High Yield Investing Is Like A Game Of Poker
We often get newbies emailing us asking whether or not investing
in HYIP's is worth the time and the risk. This is a great
question and the short answer is "it all depends".
First of all, the main question you must ask yourself...
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3 Truths About Tax Lien Certificate Investing
Truth #1 - It is going to take some work on your part to
succeed. If you have done some research into tax lien
certificates and tax deeds you may have heard some so called
"gurus" bragging about how easy it is to make a fortune. While
it is...
Ethics in Business... A Lost Art
While watching Face the Nation one Sunday earlier this year, Bob Schiffer discussed the airline industry, his mother and ethics in business. Like Bob, I think it is a sad commentary today, that we have to police businesses. Whatever happened to...
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15 Common Investing Pitfalls
We touched briefly about common investing pitfalls here. Here is a more comprehensive list. Some of it may happen to the more experienced investors as well. This serves as a guide for Novice Investors:
Investing with debt. You should not invest...
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Ground Rules for Successful Investing
Up to about 20 years ago, share investing was purely in the domain of the wealthy. For most people it was difficult to trade in overseas stock exchanges, there were no such thing as cash management trusts, installment warrants, exchange traded options, dividend imputation, reset preference shares and endowment warrants - to name a few. Now about 50% of investors are "mums and dads" investors who either own shares directly or in managed funds. Unfortunately, in recent years many investors have been "burnt" because they did not understand the risks of investing in financial markets.
Governments around the world have made it clear that it is important for people to take control of their own financial futures. The sustainability of government funded pensions is under pressure. If you do not save and invest, you will suffer a significant decline in your retirement living standard. The average life expectancy is about 80 years, so if you retire at 60 years of age, the savings you have accumulated in the 40 years of your working life will need to fund your retirement of 20 years or more.
Deregulation of financial markets, interest rates and currencies means that the market determines the value of investments and not government decree. This provides opportunities for educated investors to build wealth and for unwary investors to lose wealth. You must understand the opportunities and risks.
The ground rule is that if you want to be a successful investor in financial markets, you must educate yourself about investing. Even if you put your faith in a licensed investment advisor, not all are competent. It is essential that you understand how the financial markets work so that you do not put your hard earned money in the hands of an incompetent advisor who is only interested in the commissions available. How can you tell whether a particular investment is right for you? The only sure way is to become familiar with the language used in the financial industry and to have a sound investment strategy. Does this mean that you should keep you money safe by putting it under the bed or keeping it in the bank? No - but you do need to understand the risks involved and set ground rules for successful investing.
There are a number of ground rules in investing that haves stood the test of time. With time, patience and effort you can become a successful investor in all the areas that are open to you. This will not come overnight and you will have to be prepared for that fact there will be times you lose money. However,perseverance is a virtue above all others. The road is not always easy, but nothing worthwhile is.
Here are the ground rules for successful investing:
1. Be your own
investment manager. No advisor or stockbroker should do it for you. Only you know what your real needs are, what your temperament is - and only you are motivated by your own best interests, not sales commissions. It is also more fun to do it yourself;
2. Confront risk and then reduce it through spreading your investments;
3. Take a contrarians view to investment markets. That is, look for opportunities and do the opposite of what everyone else is doing;
4. Do not be put off by investment jargon. Master it instead.;
5. NOW is the best time to start investing. Do not wait for the markets to improve. If the share market is filled with gloom, that is the time to buy;
6. Make good quality shares the core of your investment strategy. Then you can rest easy when you invest in more speculative areas;
7. Always consider tax implications of making investments but never let tax minimization be the main objective. The fundamental rule is to think in terms of after-tax returns;
8. Keep up to date through reading the financial papers and searching independent investment research websites;
9. Discussing investments is stimulating. Condition your mind to talk to others about investing, especially people who are more experienced and knowledgeable than you are;
10. Do not be greedy. Discipline yourself to cut your losses with bad investments and cash in when you have made a reasonable profit;
11. Be patient. Rome was not built in a day. Similarly, you may not become wealthy overnight, but you will over time;
12. Never invest in anything you do not understand. If a particular investment sound too good to be true , it usually is;
13. Pay yourself first. Most people invest money they have left over after paying the bills. Allocate yourself the first 10% of your monthly income to build up your investment capital. By doing this you will force yourself to become an investor and the long term benefits will be enormous.
If you master these 13 ground rules, you will be a successful investor. You will rival so-called professionals and will sleep easily at night knowing that money is the least of your worries.
About the author:
August Leo is the owner of AllTradingSecrets.com a fine website that offer free education facilities to their visitors. The other site he maintained is AllTradingBooks.com a complete resources for smart traders. He is also a practising in Stock & Options Market
Visit the site: http://www.AllTradingSecrets.comand http://www.AllTradingBooks.com
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