Thursday, November 24, 2005

How to Invest and not to worry at the same time!

Well, you say you’re ready to being investing, on your own. No stockbrokers, no financial advisers, just you and the Capital market.Wait, are you seriously considering this proposition?

Kindly allow me to give you a bit of advice: "Don’t do it". I say this eith some experience, having lost my fair share in the “open market” as a do-it-yourself investor. The odds of success in this kind of investing is comparable to the odds of wining a lottery.Unless you are willing to take the time to investigate,study, learn and then invest. Successful investing is not a privilege of the stock broker and the financial analyst, alone. It is an area open to voluntary participation from all walk's of life. The catch here is that you must know what you are doing, or you will lose.It is important to be financially literate.

Take the time to understand all the components of the investing arena, before you risk losing all your dough. What you have spent a lifetime saving can be gone in as little as ten minutes. Now, that should be a scary thought for any sane and rational investor.

If you still intend to invest alone, here are a few tips and guidelines to help ensure your success. If you are going to invest, at least hire some form of investment professional to give you advice. It’s not necessary to let them do the investing, but use common sense, here. They know things you do not, and have not had time to learn.

Another piece of advice: If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Hands down, dream investments do not exist. If you know someone who acted on a friend’s great tip, you can bet that someone worked hard for that information, and it probably isn’t going to produce the mega return promised.

You must be patient when investing. Investing is like saving, it takes time to accumulate real returns. Don’t panic, take the time to step back and look objectively at your investment and the market indicators. Panic will cost you money. Hand in hand with the patience, there must be some read education about the investing process on your part. If you’re going to invest, take the time to learn the process, learn how to read a prospectus, how to calculate and distinguish a healthy business from one that is about to fold. Your knowledge will be your ticket to successful investing with a show of real returns.

It can be done, it is done everyday, by people just like you and I. You just need to understand the enormity of the commitment necessary to become a successful investor.

Incase you still decide invest on your own, I suggest you to become financially literate and learn what are the various finanacila ratio's and use the same befrom making an investment decision.

Also you need to check the track records of the company you wish to Invest in.

All the best!!

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