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When we hang around various business and marketing events many people always chatter “What do you put your money into? 

Once people have bought their property (s) , cars and a few holidays they look to invest in other things.

But many times people look at various investments, but back away at the last minute because they are scared.

Lack of education leads to fear,  – fear  leads to never moving forward. Stay in the “safe bubble”…

Well guess what my friend..

The “safe bubble” gets you no where.

Safe sucks balls.

So when I told people I’ve dropped $100k or more into the stock market people thought I was fucking nuts..

But when I showed a 27% gain in 3 months they began to become a little more curious.

Then when I showed them other investments paying back even more, they started asking questions…

Then when I told them how to do it regularly a rather large circle formed round me…

My $500 million net worth mentor told me “Remember we can always work hard Foxy… but we can never work as hard as money can”

Rich Investor  Vs Rich Saver

You’ll often hear the expression “Rich investor” but rarely will you hear “Rich saver”.

Liquid capital is of course a nice thing to have but money in the bank is the WORST rate ever – in fact with inflation you actually lose money.

Read that again – money in the bank LOSES money!

So what can you invest in?

Well multiple things – stocks, gold, precious metals, real estate, other businesses, funds managed by people you trust, classic cars.  And a separate note is investing in yourself and education is the best thing you can do but thats for another article.

People don’t think twice about getting a new watch, new clothing, new car.

Yet when it comes to investing they shy away… You need to take a leap of faith at some point. Instead of spending £100 on a night out , invest in something.

Various ways to trade stocks – short term and long term

One method I’ve used successfully with some degree of protection is snatching short term wins but understand the companies long term value.

Lets use Facebook as an example.

Currently Facebook is trailblazing the way with mobile technology and successfully monetising their customer base with mobile advertising.

With the recent clever acquisitions of Instagram and Whats App (which they have yet to monetise) they have A LOT more ammunition in the tank.

Take a look at this

As you can see a stock doesn’t go “straight up” or “straight down”. its zigs and zags.

Quite often when it hits a record peak , it will ALWAYS go down. 95% chance it will decrease.

This is when you want to watch carefully , wait for the drop and then buy.

Remember when everyone sees the stock going down , don’t get worried. Get excited. Pick your moment , buy and hold and when it peaks SELL.

So what happens if the stock goes down from what you paid?

You need to have faith . Believe in the company you’ve invested in long term.

Is their risk involved in doing this?

OF COURSE

But I’ll end the note on this.  I was speaking to a friend who had to wait 5 years to get a 11% return with the bank .

When I told him I did 11% return in 24 hours he was like WHAT!

When I told him the Porsche he was sitting in now had a  years worth of car payments now covered he got even more pissed ..

Then the icing on the cake… “O yeah these payments to this car – this car is an APPRECIATING asset and will gain 5-12% this year”. – yeah the shade of purple on his face was rather interesting…

Calculate your risk , invest what you can afford to lose and give it a go.

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