Investing Basics for Beginners





A Primer for the New Investor

If you’re now at the point where you want to plan for your future income goals, then it’s important to set into place some budgetary habits that will definitively lead you to where you want to go. Therefore, there are a number of fiscal practices you’ll want to get into the habit of before you [...]

How Do I Go About Investing?

Many have taken the road to financial success through investing. If they can do it successfully, why can’t you? Investing is just a matter of decision and tactic—things you have to simply calculate with your mind.
Treat investment as your devotion. You invest because you think that the investment you make will give something back to [...]

Is a PPIP Investment in Your Future?

Related to the government’s bail-out program PPIP (pronounced “pee-pip”) or the Public-Private Investment Program is an investment vehicle that has been designed by the government to “bail out” the banks. This is the way it works – for each dollar that a fund manger receives from an investor the government will likewise contribute a dollar [...]

What to Look For in Your Trading Journal

In my previous post, I mentioned what to include in your trading journal. Now that you have started keeping one, now what?
Your trading journal will help you succeed in investing. By carefully reviewing your trading journal you should be able to improve on your gains, and avoid some key losses. You’re also likely to [...]

What To Write in Your Trading Journal

So, you want to make millions trading? Who doesn’t? The only problem is how do you know which trading habits are working for you and which are working against you? Most successful traders make it a point to keep a trading journal where they can keep track of and analyze their trades. A [...]

Different Ways of Investing Money

If you’ve got a few dollars in your bank account, you might want to consider investing it. As financial gurus and experts claim, the time to invest is now. The longer you wait the more potential return on investment you’re throwing away. As you go out and start to look for profitable investments, you’ll quickly [...]

Common Mistakes to Avoid in Investing

As you go on the process of investing, you may commit a few mistakes. There are big mistakes, however, that you should completely avoid if you want to be a successful investor. For example, the biggest mistake that you could ever make is not investing at all, or putting off investing until later. Let your [...]

Creating Investment Goals

Before you invest, you should first make a vivid picture of what you plan to do with the profits. Setting a goal allows you to motivate yourself and endure serious emotional or financial backlashes, as it provides more conviction for you to continue.
Whether your goal is a long term or a short term, it has [...]

Determine the Amount of Money You Can Invest

Novice investors have the impression that the more money they invest, the more they would earn. This would incite some to invest all their savings, and in some ways they could prove to be right. Such acts, however, could also become their undoing. With luck, a novice investor may end up with double their investment, [...]

Different Investment Styles

There are different kinds of investments that you can choose from. In fact, you may find these choices confusing especially if you are a novice investor. So to simplify things, we group them into mainly cash, bonds, and stocks. Choosing these three types of investment are influenced by the amount of risk tolerance you have, [...]