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The Big Secret to Successful Investing

By Tex Freitag

No one gets into investing to lose money. You need great information, great strategy and great resources to bounce back from missteps in order to succeed.

Take an investment lesson from entrepreneurs eager to disrupt markets and find new niches. If you can accurately spot the next big thing and get in early, you’ll maximize your profits. This principle can trickle down across many niches and sectors, and applies to all sorts of stocks.

It’s not just for new companies or products either. Catching established and even declining companies just before they take off is a great way to compete. The last thing you want to do is jump on the bandwagon after everyone else has already joined the ride.

But there’s an obvious challenge that gets in the way of your success: information. In order to find opportunities and take advantage of them at the right time, you need to have your finger on the pulse of the market. Accessing, filtering and processing the flood of information out there and identifying important trends, impacts and opportunities can be an overwhelming experience. Given the scale of globalization, it’s not enough to even understand the mechanics and influences on a niche industry and region. You need to take into account how larger forces from around the world could impact the success of your investment.

Finding the right resources to get access to the right information at the right time with the right presentation is critical. Ideally, some professional analysis can really help cut down on the amount of time and effort you need to put into collecting, reviewing and processing raw data in order to make better informed decisions.

Information feeds into strategy. The simplistic but generally-true perspective is that gains — and more-significant gains — are seen over the long term, so while you need to monitor your investments, you shouldn’t be too reactive to downturns or potential threats. However, the length of an investment term can vary. Choose a niche and learn it thoroughly before diversifying. You may want to focus on a particular type of company, bonds, currency exchange or something entirely different. For example, classic car equity share investment trading recently became a thing. It can help if you have prior knowledge of the niche you invest in simply because you won’t have to put quite as much energy into learning everything about it.

Finally, in order to be competitive in the investment market, you need to have sufficient financial resources to be agile, learn from your mistakes, outlast downturns and make gains. Don’t over-invest and risk everything on your first few trades, and don’t put yourself in a situation where you have to divest investments too soon in order to liquidate funds. Consider building up capital a little longer before starting to trade if you’re too constrained by the funds available.

Being a competitive trader is mostly about access to the right information at the right time and the right analysis to stay ahead of the pack.

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2 Comments August 10, 2018

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  1. 1

    Mik says

    Never ever trust a prophet making a profit….!!!

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    • 2

      Len Penzo says

      You can say that again, Mik.

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