Sure, you can be a successful investor on your own, but learning from the best can really accelerate your learning. Here are five habits that five successful investors all do.
Do Your Homework
Investing is not a bucket of balls at the driving range. A wicked slice never hurt anything but your pride, but a bad investment could cause a costly ripple effect that reaches well beyond your checkbook. If you’re a beginner, you owe it to yourself to read up on the trillion-dollar, multi-national, hyperdynamic system we call ‘the marketplace’. Knowing the difference between futures and options, he effects of currency manipulation on foreign investments and understanding interest rates, dividends, capital gains, leverage, vesting, margins, premiums, volume–you get the idea. After you feel like you have a pretty good sense of the course layout, move on to tip two.
Have A Strategy
Do you know the difference between a Collar Strategy and a Calendar Spread Strategy? Are you a value investor? Do you believe that past performance is a reliable indicator of a given stock’s value? Finding the right strategy will allow you to invest within your budget and achieve your investing goals. A financial advisor can help you make sense of the various strategies and help you select the one that’s right for you. Of course, you can always dive into the market without a strategy, but you’ll probably wish you had one when the tide inevitably changes.
Set Goals and Stick To Them
Wealth, like Rome, wasn’t built in a day. It takes brains, a few lucky bounces, and no short supply of patience. Sit down with a financial advisor and set a list of realistic goals. Write them down. Read them often. Reconsider them at times. But whatever you do, don’t deviate from your goals at the first patch of rough water. A well-thought out, proven strategy can help you set achievable goals, an advisor can help you stick to them, but in the end it comes down to you to see them through.
Don’t Bet The House
When our back is against the wall, we often ask ourselves, ‘What have I got to lose?’ Well, depending on your investments the answer could be a lot! If a fund declines in value, it’s the fund’s job to recover! The last thing you want to do is try to compensate for an underperforming stock. If you have a strategy then that strategy should carry you through market downturns. Stick to the plan, stay within your budget, and if all else fails, see a financial advisor before you bet the house on a wing and a prayer.
Play Golf, Go Fishing, Learn to Cook
Investing, like Fantasy Football, has a tendency to become all-consuming. Unlike Fantasy Football, investing doesn’t have an offseason. So, find some separation from the market and keep your perspective. Remember, you’re investing because you want the financial freedom to do the things you love. So, don’t let the market keep you from living the life it’s meant to support.
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