Don't Speculate With Your Investments

Speculating is not investing.  Investing is taking an acceptable amount of risk in order to reap a return.  Speculating is taking on an inordinate amount of risk for an unknown return.  Speculating is a great way to lose the money you've saved and invested.  If you really want to speculate, only allocate a small portion of your portfolio to it.  Speculation includes buying unknown stocks, options and shorting stocks.  Try to avoid these investments.  Speculative stocks usually do very well for a while, but because of lack of earnings and after a period of time people lose interest in them and their stocks almost always plummet.  Avoid speculation!