Comments on: Best Ways to Begin Stock Investing

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By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:41:50 +0000

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By: Raag Vamdatt - India based financial planner

Raag Vamdatt - India based financial planner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:41:28 +0000

Hi,

A very well written post….

Can’t stress more on the point about investing in foreign market. Economies of emerging markets like India (where I operate) have a far higher growth rate than developed economies like US. This also gets reflected (and would continue to get reflected for years) in their stock markets.

So, if you are serious about investing in stocks, do consider to invest at least a small portion (maybe 10-15%) in emerging markets.

This would also be a good diversification strategy – both in terms of asset classes, and currency!!

By: Arohan

Arohan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:13:50 +0000

Most institutional investors are so afraid of underperforming the indexes that they typically end up trying to mimicing the index or at the least buy the same stocks that everyone else thinks is a good idea.

Result: Most institutional investors and mutual funds underperform the index or deliver average returns.

On the other hand, running a concentrated portfolio with well chosen stocks will go a long way towards meeting your financial goals. If good returns are what you are after for your money, you have got to spend time researching good stocks.

By: ANKARA WEB TASARIM

ANKARA WEB TASARIM — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:53:27 +0000

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By: mlgreen8753

mlgreen8753 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:55:53 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:52:06 +0000

Very good article.

In my opinion, it is all a matter of market timing. It does not matter if it is gold, oil, or Microsoft, if you have access to good market timing signals, they will help you get in and out at a profit.

No guarantees in this business, but if they are right most of the time, you can still make $s.

There are may web sites providing them out there (search Google). Just find one that works and use it! Check out http://invetrics.com as an example.

Its Dow Jones timing signals are up 44.7% as of 6/24/09 while the Dow is up just 26% off its March lows.

Following a market timing system works!

By: billspaced

billspaced — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:43:00 +0000

@ dr latib:

I think you're referring to me and my poor use of words: Buffett most likely doesn't use index funds and I said he did. I apologize for the suggestion.

@ anonymous:

One of the hallmarks of good investing is to put your eggs in a few different baskets, so that if one basket doesn't pan out, your other baskets can bail you out.

(In short, diversify.)

That said, I' suggest you put 1/3 into property, 1/3 into equities of some sort, and 1/3 into cash and bonds (equally weighted, or 1/6 in each). You'd then have an inflation hedge (the stocks), a cash flow machine (the real property), and a deflation hedge (the bonds), with some liquidity in the form of cash.