Good Money Investment

Understanding the Opportunity Cost of any decision you make is critical to ensure you make the best choices to maximise your profits, and ultimately your long term earnings.

While most investors have got involved in property investing because they understand the opportunities to make money through leverage and capital growth or high yields, I still see and hear of many who do not fully understand opportunity cost and therefore do not maximise their profits.

Remember anyone that gets into property is usually in it to generate money or income, how many deals/properties you own is insignificant, but I meet some investors who feel it is all about buying as many properties as they can and never selling, irrespective of performance or other opportunities. (more…)

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There are many different trading types out there that can help you make money in the stock market today. If you are just starting out it can be confusing. You may be asking yourself how do I make money and what is the best trading system for me? Here I have composed a list of different trading systems that have been proven to make money in the stock market. Study them and find out which is the best for you.

1. Trend traders, these are traders that simply buy up trending stocks and sell down trending stocks. An up trending stock is a stock that keeps making higher highs and higher lowers. What a trend trader would do is get into this stock at their low and hold onto it until it stops making higher highs and higher lows. That is it. They do not necessarily have to look at the company’s fundamentals. If it is going up it probably has good fundamentals anyway.

2. Swing traders, these traders play off of support and resistance. Support and resistance are imaginary tops and bottoms of stocks. For example if a stock is bouncing between $51 and $60, $51 would be its support and $60 would be its resistance. What a swing trader would do is wait until this stock goes down to $51 then buy it. They might place a stop at around $48 so if it breaks lower they will only lose $3. Then the swing trader waits until it either hits his stop or resistance at $60. Let us look at what could happen here. If you are right you make $60-$51=$9 if you are wrong you lose $51-$48=$3. (more…)

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Ouch! The mighty Dow has fallen to within a financial heart beat of its 1999 high water mark, boasting an average per year gain of less than one half of one percent in spite of several interim manipulations designed to improve the performance picture. The S & P 500 Average, an equally prestigious indicator of broader market movements, is nearly 13% below where it was at approximately the same time. Both figures reflect no investment expenses at all. So, in spite of the mostly ignored fact that neither index includes any income securities (bonds, preferred stocks, REITs, etc.), a reasonable person could well expect his or her portfolio market value to be well below where it was nearly ten years ago! Now that’s a fairly dismal scenario, but it’s the in-your-face reality for most investors as we move forward into what we all hope will be a more spring-like investment climate. (more…)

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