Investing
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2 February 2011 at 19 : 28 PM
Don’t Watch Your Investments Too Closely
An important concept to keep you on the right investing path is to not watch your stock portfolio too closely. In fact, once you’ve made your decisions and picked your investments, you should try to avoid watching your specific investments much at all. Even though it’s important to keep an eye on the market and [...]
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19 January 2011 at 19 : 37 PM
Tips on Investing Overseas
Part of getting on the right investment path is diversifying your portfolio to include overseas investments. For example, if you live in the US, don’t just buy US stocks. If you live in India, don’t just buy Indian stocks. Any single market is subject to the ups and downs of business cycles (recessions and growth) that [...]
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5 January 2011 at 14 : 16 PM
Start With Simple Investments
When beginning to invest, it is best to start with simple investments. Unless you are investing a lot of money, don’t get carried away with trying to create a well diversified portfolio and trying to split up your investments into dozens of different categories. Instead, take a simple approach. Make initial investments in one or [...]
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6 December 2010 at 18 : 39 PM
Don’t Procrastinate on Your Investing
Getting on the right investing path means starting early with your investments. Don’t wait until its too late. Start investing today, even if you can’t afford it. The longer you wait the further you fall behind. Because of the compounding effect of money your early investments will reap rewards you wouldn’t dream of over the [...]
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6 December 2010 at 10 : 40 AM
Be Objective With Your Investments
When traveling down the right investment path, you must be objective with your investment decisions. That means making decisions without emotions. The best way to do this is to look at your portfolio as if you were a financial advisor, or giving advice to a friend. This sounds easy but emotions run deep when money [...]
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22 November 2010 at 09 : 29 AM
Invest Don’t Trade
Another rule in the path to investing success is to invest your money, don’t trade it. Investing means buying the stock of a company that you believe will offer long term financial rewards. Trading, means buying a stock that you believe will go up or down, regardless of the underlying company and its fundamentals. When [...]
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8 November 2010 at 18 : 27 PM
Four Reasons Not to Trade Stocks
Another important investing rule required to get you on the right investing path is to avoid trading stocks and the stock market. It has been proven again and again by research and analytic reports that stock trading does not beat a buy and hold strategy. In fact, it does the opposite. Trading stocks is high [...]
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