The promise of making a lot of money has been heard by many, and many have found out that it just is not as easy as they had heard. They lost money - sometimes a lot of it. They then turned away from the stock market and ended up totally disillusioned about it. The truth is, they may have been somewhat confused about it in the first place. They may have thought it would come to them just like it did to others - without knowing the why’s or the how’s. Here are some strategies that you can use in order to help you to avoid the common mistakes that others have made.

Get A Realistic View

By looking at the market with your eyes open, you can come to understand not only the profit possibilities, but also the possibility of losses. The truth is that the higher the possible gain there is, that it is always associated with the increased likelihood of loss. The safer investments always bring a lower level of profit, and the safest investments have attached to them the lowest levels of profit.

Understand The Market

One of the greatest benefits that you can have to help you avoid a lot of potential pitfalls in your investments is to understand the principles of investing. In other words, read all you can about the process, how to judge a good stock, etc. The more you know about it yourself, the wiser you will be able to invest your funds - and hopefully see a profit. You will also be able to develop a worthwhile investment strategy - both for the short term and for the long term.

Diversify

It is smart investing to place your available investment funds into a minimum of 6 different kinds of shares. Some suggest that you go as many as 20 in order to diversify safely. Spread your investments into different kinds of stock (sectors) that are not related. This way if one type of market does not do well, then the other ones should. This enables you to still make money from some of your investment.

It is usually a good idea to diversify into more than just the stock market - at least until you really understand what you are doing. The smart investor will take a portion of their investment money and put a percentage of it into secure investments like trust funds which are solid investments, and possibly also bonds, which are the most secure, but do provide less interest.

Seek Counsel From Professionals

Unless you have money to just throw away, it would be a real good idea to seek help from someone who understands the market better than you do. There are professionals out there, financial advisors, brokers, etc., that are more than willing to help you build a solid portfolio for your investments. Their expertise can spare you a lot of unnecessary loss, and get you on to the right track to some solid profit.

Make Your Investments For The Long Term

While there is different thinking about the markets and how to invest, the general idea is to make your investments for the long term. Experienced stock market experts tend not to watch the market everyday, but only check on it once a month and many of them only quarterly. Watching it everyday leads to a lot of anxiety - since the market normally fluctuates a lot from day to day. Overall, though, it generally moves upward.

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I’ve been involved in online trading, specifically with stock and index options, for several years. In this time, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about value and the fact that anything, be it a stock or currency or even a house, is worth exactly whatever someone else will pay for it. Sure, there are a million and one pricing models (especially in financial markets) that will tell you precisely what something should be worth. But in the final analysis, if nobody will pay that much, then it’s not actually worth that price.

Let’s illustrate this concept in a very simple fashion. I’m an American so I’ll
use U.S. currency to make my point.

What is a $20 bill worth? Without over thinking it and talking about inflation,
exchange rates, etc. let’s just say that it is generally believed to be worth
$20.

Would you pay me $20 for a $20 bill? I’m going to guess probably not, as there
would be no real reason to do so. You would have to go to the trouble of
getting me your $20 and I would have to go to the trouble of giving you my $20
bill, and neither of us would be in a better position than we were before.
Therefore, I would like to present the idea that a $20 bill is not actually
worth $20 since nobody would likely pay $20 for it!

So how much would you pay for a $20 bill? Would you pay $19.99? Is it worth
the effort for 1 cent? No? How about $19.50? $19? Shall I keep going?

In a free and fair market it is the market itself which determines value, and
given a large enough market, that value should be fairly accurate. I read an
article online some time ago about someone who decided to conduct an experiment
just for fun. He put a new $5 bill up for auction online and began the biding
at 1 cent. He crafted a creative description of the note, and waited to see the
results. When it was all said and done, the bill did in fact sell - for
slightly over $3. He then spoke with the winning bidder, who said he had made a
profit many times online by purchasing currency for less than face value
(including a $20 bill for less than $10 as I recall).

The conductor of the experiment left it at that - nothing more than a somewhat
humorous exploration into what people think something is worth. But to me this
meant so much more.

A dollar is not actually worth a dollar… so what is it worth? What
would you trade for $1? For $20? For $100? $1,000? And if a dollar isn’t
actually worth a dollar, is a share of stock worth $50, or in fact anything at
all?

The answer is yes. At any given moment it is worth precisely what someone is
willing to pay for it. No more, no less. Money and value are merely ideas,
they are not absolutes.

Consider this carefully the next time you are convinced that the stock, option,
currency, house, or anything else you want to buy, is worth what you’re about to
pay.

Jonathan van Clute is a full time investor, educator, speaker, and online
options and sports arbitrage trader. In addition to his business activities, he
is also a musician, video editor/animator, and one of the world’s greatest
Segway Polo athletes. He can be reached via email at jonathan@PMLinvestments.com
and is speaking at an upcoming teleseminar, visit
http://www.snurl.com/vcfmv for details.

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Just the other day one of my friends, Linwood, asked me, “David, how are you doing in commodities?” I replied, “Why as a matter of fact, I’m checking on some profits right now.” Linwood went on to say that his cousin is a commodities broker. I replied, “And you have not invested in commodities yet? What are you waiting for?”

My friend went on to say that he wanted to learn more about commodities before he invested in them. He is very smart in wanting to learn before he jumps into something he does not fully understand.

Being a success coach in teaching people how to invest in commodities, I seized the opportunity to help him get acquainted with commodity investing. I pulled up a website that showed the prices of what commodities were trading at. I went over some basics like how to read and interpret the charts.

He then asked me where I thought he could invest $500. I proceeded to tell him that I thought Gold offered a good opportunity. I cautioned him that Gold was currently in an uptrend but that it would eventually pull back.

I then asked him what was the minimum amount of money he would be satisfied in making? The reason I asked this question is because I wanted to make sure his expectations were realistic. I asked him other questions too - like what was his timeframe for an expected payoff? He answered these questions. Based on his answers to the questions we devised a plan of action.

I advised him to take a look at investing in a Gold call option. At the time the option was priced at $490. I advised him that the commission and fees would add to this price a little. I said let’s watch the price for a week or two to see if he would have made money in the trade.

This strategy is referred to as “paper trading” or as I like to call it “play before you pay.”
It is a great way to learn how to invest and use different strategies before you risk your money.

The following day we watched the call option go up in price to $700. This represented a $210 profit in one day. Another way of looking at this is he could have made a 43% profit in one day. The next day when we looked at Gold, it was worth $800. So in two days he could have made a profit of $310 minus commission and fees. This amount represents a 63% profit in a couple of days.

Keep in mind this is money he did not have to do physical work for. It is what I call “sit down money”. On the otherhand, “stand there money” is when you have to work for someone else and stand there and accept however they treat you.

Decide today that you want as much sit down money as you can make. For more information visit http://www.themoneymotivator.com/ and order Wealthy Investing Secrets today.

Much More Success,

David D. Wells -
Master of Turning a Small Stash into a Huge Pile of Cash

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