Sponsored Links


Other Topics
Sponsored Links



Quote of the Day

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

William Gibson

FEATURED
FINANCE
PRODUCTS
 
Ultraforex Trading : Automated Forex
 
123 Trading Secrets For Stocks, Futures...
 
Trend Zone - Forex Trading System Guide...
 
The Day Trade Forex Trading And Information...
 
Prophet1 Automated Forex Trading System...
 




 


Google


Warning: fopen(stopka/index.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /stopka.php on line 117

Warning: fopen(stopka/6655d922aa2c1bbb44b556c10262be35.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /stopka.php on line 117


 
Featured Investing Articles

Bird-Dogging - Getting A Start In Real Estate Investing
Are you anxious to get a piece of the wealth that is to be found in real estate investing? Until now, if you didn't have experience or cash it would be very unlikely that you'd be successful since real estate investing carries enormous risks and high ...

Investing Idea
Besides educating yourself, the best way to find undervalued investment is to have lots of investing idea. Having investing idea allows you to compare investment alternatives and pick the best one. People sometimes lament that they seldom find stocks ...

The Nice To Know Things About Online Stock Market Investing
Stock market investing using online applications like the internet has made stock market investing more efficient, secure and manageable to a lot of retail stock market investors. Online stock market investing is made possible by internet based trading ...





Are You Afraid to Start Investing?
 
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult!" Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
If you're just starting out as an investor, doesn't matter your age, it's kind of scary!
You know you're supposed to do something with your money, but what?
Where do you really start and what's considered safe?
First ... Relax!
Don't think you have to know everything today. It takes years to understand investing, and no one fully knows exactly what's happening all the time.
So you're not alone if you're feeling a little overwhelmed and under-informed. Eventually you will make investment decisions with as many facts as you can assemble but you have to realize that you can never really know everything.
The best part of investing is to learn to live with the anxiety of the unknown!
There are always nay-sayers who will tell you that investing is for professionals, or that the market is too high, or that it is going to crash!
The first statement is false! The second is relative depending on a bunch of factors and the third is always a possibility depending on how you define crash!
If the Index goes to 10000 and "crashes" back to 8000 and you invested at 7000 you have not really suffered! Is this a crash?
Well, that depends on how you define crash. If you bought stocks at 10000, and sold at 8000, then you have experienced a "crash."
If you bought and held on, or used down market strategies that you have learned to hedge your investment, then you have not experience a crash.
You have experienced an educational event!
And if the market recovers and goes to 11000 and you stayed the course; you have made some good money.
The point is that in order to understand the investment world you have to get started, and in order to get started you have to make the commitment that you can achieve your goals.
In order to achieve your goals you must learn about the markets and invest some of your income to get to where you want to be.
It is as simple as that!
You can try it and chances are that you will be happy when you get to a point a few years down the road and look at your brokerage account, you will say ...
"I did that and I am proud of it!"
So, don't listen to the bad vibe discouraging people. Most of them were saying the same things when the Index was at half the size it is today!
About the Author
Copyright © 2005 Ioannis - Evangelos (Akis) C. Haramis haramis@greekshares.com http://www.greekshares.com Ioannis - Evangelos (Akis) C. Haramis was born in Athens, Greece in 1951. He studied in Greece, in USA and in Belgium and has been active in the stock markets since 1972. Since 2002 he is New Business Development Managing Director at an Investment Bank and the editor of http://www.greekshares.com

Investing News



Bloomberg

Facebook's bungled IPO ticks off small investors
msnbc.com (blog)
“I was caught up in the excitement of an enormous social media company going public and thought that over the long run, the investment would be profitable,” she said. “It's a service I use several times a day, and that's how I like to invest -- in ...
Facebook's stock debut shows not all investors are equalLos Angeles Times
Facebook IPO Deepens Investor Distrust of StocksBloomberg
Facebook: A Lesson in IPO InvestingHispanicBusiness.com
Seeking Alpha -DailyFinance -PolicyMic
all 5,308 news articles »

Invest in India? Patience will pay off
CNNMoney
By Ali Velshi @Money May 25, 2012: 5:09 AM ET The challenges and investing opportunities presented by India -- a country of 1.2 billion people -- are vast indeed. (MONEY Magazine) -- My great-grandfather left his little village in India more than a ...

and more »

COLUMN-College investing the low-risk way
Reuters
So I've been employing an investment strategy to try to make up the difference so that tuition doesn't sink my kids into a loathsome amount of debt. The basis of our plan is that we invest our college funds in an age-adjusted 529 college savings plan ...


U.S. News & World Report (blog)

Investing in Alternatives
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
By Tim MicKey The adviser community has a better understanding of the potential advantages of adding alternative investments to client portfolios as a way of diversifying and, hopefully, further managing risk in client accounts.
11 Ways to Help Yourself Stay Sane in a Crazy MarketPatch.com
Saving needs to become a disciplined habitMontgomery Advertiser

all 3 news articles »

Stanford Investment Group, Inc. Hosted Presentation "Your True Legacy: It's ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Stanford Investment Group, Inc. hosted a presentation discussing the differences between men and women as it relates to money and investing. Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) May 24, 2012 As part of Stanford Investment Group, Inc.'s mission statement to engage ...

and more »