| Investing in the stock market is full of risks and | | | | read the world economy too! A good resource |
| compared to the real estate market is a gamble | | | | for all of this analysis is CNBC website. They have |
| of your money and wealth! Nevertheless, many | | | | amazing analysis reports where they have done |
| people have built tremendous wealth from the | | | | most of the tough technical analysis hard work |
| stock market. They did it because they knew | | | | for you. You just have to read the world |
| what they were doing. They knew the investing | | | | economy and make decisions. |
| basics and the economic indicators and used it to | | | | Â |
| read the world economy and make sound | | | | 3-Â Â Â Always watch the |
| investments. In a nutshell; that's really what it | | | | insiders: - one of the very important ways to |
| takes to succeed in the stock market. The world | | | | succeed in the stock market is to have extra |
| economy however isn't an open book! It is a big | | | | knowledge resources to vaguely or specifically |
| ambiguous mystery novel full of twists and turns | | | | know what is happening inside the office walls of |
| to drag your mind away from the real ending. | | | | companies. One way to do this is by continuously |
| Those who know how to interpret the world | | | | reading the quarterly reports or called 10-Q |
| economy and translate its twists and turns into | | | | reports of companies. What to look for is the |
| plausible clear indications, will cut through the | | | | stocks selling and buying activity of the company |
| clutter and win. | | | | board of directors or the private shareholders. |
| The thing that everybody has to understand | | | | Think of it this way, if the people who know best |
| about the stock market is that this market is not | | | | about what's happening in their own company are |
| bounded by the walls of the trading center or the | | | | day after day selling large volumes of their |
| limits of the big cities or even the oceans. Literally, | | | | stocks, what kind of indication you will get from |
| anything that happens in the world affects this | | | | that. Yes; dump your shares before the stock |
| market and the more any incidence makes people | | | | tanks! Another way is to have good relations with |
| fear the future the more the stock indicators are | | | | some of the senior managers in the company |
| going to jump up and down like crazy. | | | | that you want to invest it. Believe me; this kind of |
| Fortunately, if there is a well there is always a | | | | friendship is very valuable. |
| way. Even nowadays with the dwindling economy, | | | | Â |
| a lot of people are making a lot of money from | | | | 4-Â Â Â Don't put all of your |
| the stocks market! Why? Because while it does | | | | eggs in one basket: - as simple as this rule is, you |
| matter what the economy looks like when it | | | | would be surprised how many people are doing it |
| comes to stocks, that still doesn't mean that all | | | | in the stock market in a daily basis. Diversify in |
| the stocks will be worthless. For example, if | | | | your portfolio by investing in different winning |
| technology stocks drop, energy or real estate | | | | sectors and in multiple companies. Even if you |
| stocks will go up for a couple of reasons | | | | know the CEO of a company and he tells you |
| connected to the world events and economy! | | | | that the stocks of his company will triple in the |
| You just have to read the world economy! | | | | next week, still don't take all of your money and |
| These are the surefire ways towards better | | | | buy the stocks of this company. |
| stock investing:- | | | | Â |
| 1-Â Â Â Read the world | | | | 5-Â Â Â Don't borrow |
| economy: - For example, gold was at its cheapest | | | | excessively to create wealth: - Suppose you |
| prices back in 1999. That's because the world was | | | | diversified and did your due diligence, but 80 |
| living in a state of relative political calm and the | | | | percent of your money is borrowed and you lost |
| U.S. economy was booming. Oil supply was | | | | half of it. Financial recovery in this situation is a |
| abundant and there were no fears of shortages | | | | very hard thing to do. Even if you don't have a |
| or sudden increases in demand. After the events | | | | lot of money, start small, build your wealth and |
| of September 11, the world has changed | | | | take it a step by step. If you don't have a lot of |
| considerably. Terrorism has become a serious | | | | money, start investing in small capital companies |
| threat. Security measures have shot costs to the | | | | and a lot of good ones are available in the |
| roof. The wars that followed in Iraq and | | | | NASDAQ stock exchange. The good thing about |
| Afghanistan have created a new chapter of | | | | small cap companies is that they have a tendency |
| instability. We outsourced many jobs and opened | | | | to shoot up in value more than big cap companies |
| many factories in China, India, Mexico etc. without | | | | in terms of percentage growth. So it will be really |
| knowing that while this reduces manufacturing | | | | worth while your investment if you found that |
| costs, it created a boom in demand for energy in | | | | gem in the crowd. |
| those countries, which translated to a boom in | | | | Â |
| demand for oil. As a result of all of this, gold and | | | | 6-Â Â Â Practice, practice |
| oil prices have shot up, the dollar devalued, | | | | and practice: - Even if you have read a lot about |
| inflation soared and the real estate market | | | | using financial indicators, you did a lot of technical |
| collapsed because of the rising interest rates of | | | | stock analysis and you have many insiders, |
| adjustable mortgages. This should give a clear | | | | practice before doing the real thing. Start a |
| picture of what kind of companies to invest in | | | | fictitious portfolio containing real stocks, but with |
| right now. These are: oil companies, alternative | | | | imaginary investments. After a month or two |
| energy companies, Gold mining companies and | | | | check how well are you are doing. If you are not |
| finally weapon manufacturing companies! I don't | | | | doing well, go back and see what where you |
| want to be pessimistic, but recovering from this | | | | doing wrong because you must've did something |
| weak economy will not be easy and we have a | | | | wrong to choose bad investments. Correct your |
| long way to go in this dark tunnel. | | | | mistakes and retry. There are free imaginary |
| Â | | | | portfolio tools available by the big online stock |
| 2-Â Â Â Do your due | | | | brokers like E-trade or Ameritrade. You can use |
| diligence: - Don't take my words for granted and | | | | these tools to buy stocks and track stock |
| go ahead and invest in every oil and alternative | | | | movements and calculate your earnings and |
| energy company. Even though you will not regret | | | | losses instantly. You can also set up a simple |
| it, still before investing, technical analysis must be | | | | Excel sheet to do this tracking. |
| done on any company before you invest. There | | | | Â |
| are certain indicators to look at like: - how much | | | | I personally like the stock market and I think it is |
| debt to equity ratio this company has, what's | | | | the most lucrative and the fastest way to wealth. |
| their future expansion plans, how stretched their | | | | Real estate is good, but it delivers results over |
| assets are compared to revenues, what is their | | | | extended periods of time. As long as you know |
| real worth in the market (also called book value), | | | | what you are doing, you should have no problems. |
| what is their P/E ratio, which is the value of the | | | | Read some reports and books about stock |
| stock compared to its earnings and much more. | | | | investing, practice it a little bit with small amounts |
| Put all of these together and draw a picture of | | | | of money and learn from your mistakes. Stocks |
| how well this company will do. Don't forget to | | | | are not risky, they are calculated risks! |