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Ten Common Investor Mistakes

Posted: 16 Jan 2008

Investors, investment advisors, and professional investors all make mistakes. I have listed some of the most common and expensive mistakes below. These mistakes can end up costing investors a fortune over time due to the power of compounding. Small mistakes now end up costing a great deal of money over time. Numerous studies have shown that the average investor often ends up with only about half of the return that is available in the markets (or worse). This big shortfall is due to mistakes like these:

1. Trading too much. Being too short-term oriented.

2. Chasing performance (buying high). Investors seem to get most interested in an investment after it has already performed great for several years in a row. Those are… Continue reading

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$100 To Invest - The Start Of Something Big

Posted: 16 Jan 2008

Sometimes the simplest ideas get the most amazing results. In this article we explore a simple investment idea that can potentially turn $100 into $1 million dollars in less than a year. If this sounds a little ambitious to you, take heart, stranger things have happened!

One of the finest investment tactics known to man is investing in short cycle investments. We all understand compounding and follow the concept of interest upon interest and that is why investors work so hard to keep their compounder up high. However, most investors are typically delighted with a 30% return. No two ways about it, 30% is a great return and creates the compounding effect very rapidly.

The annual time frame is way too old fashioned. Measuring your results based on a 12 month criteria… Continue reading

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Investing One Million Dollars - Turn It Into Two Million

Posted: 16 Jan 2008

One of the quickest ways to invest one million dollars and get a significant return is by using it in high value assets. These types of high value assets only require a small percentage increase in price to return another million for you.

For example, a $15 million dollar asset only needs an 8% increase when you resell it to be able to yield a million dollar profit. 8% is highly within the realm of probable. Perhaps you could find an asset that is under priced by 4% and do some small improvement to add another 4% to the selling price.

Anything can be used for this type of transaction including waterfront mansions and jet planes or medium sized businesses or even high profile art work. The whole idea behind this investment… Continue reading

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Investing $100 for a 300% Return - The Perfect Example

Posted: 16 Jan 2008

What would happen if you could triple your money starting with just $100? This article explores the prefect investment and how to turn $100 into two million dollars in a very short time.

High returns equals high risk…is this true? Maybe, maybe not but the point is that there is risk. If there were no risk, then a high return investment is completely and utterly desirable. Many investors seem happy with a 30% yearly return only because they justify this poultry compounding rate by telling themselves that the risk was low and therefore they are prudent and wise investors.

However, 30% a year, starting with $100 it would take 30 years to see your first million. So what is the ideal answer? The ideal answer is a return of 300% return that… Continue reading

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Invest $600 In - Can You Double It In 10 Minutes?

Posted: 16 Jan 2008

I was having this remarkable conversation recently about risk and returns with a college of mine and we were discussing the fastest returns we had respectively had. The one my college offered was quite remarkable, so I thought I would tell you about it here.

Mark was selling his car and had a sign up on the car parked infont of his house. Within 10 minutes of putting the car up for sale, a random lady was driving past and inquired about the little four cylinder car, she had a v8 and was tired of the gas bills and was thinking about getting a smaller car.

Her car was a very attractive Chrysler and was easily worth $2000 but she just didn’t want it anymore and mentioned to Mark that she would… Continue reading

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Why Women Invest More Carefully Than Man

Posted: 16 Jan 2008

We all know the saying that men are from mars, and women are from Venus. This is an old saying that tells us that we have a different way of approaching life. We have a different opinion on most things in our daily life. Especially when we invest our money we use a different style and risk strategy.

Basically men are found to tend to focus on a single task while women have the tendency and ability of multitasking. The same attitude is adopted by men and women when investing. It is the large and bold investments that have more of a risk that men like investing in. On the contrary, women like to diversify their holdings so that they tend to assume lower risk in their investments.

It is this difference… Continue reading

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