5 Money making strategies

Classifying investment strategies into five broad groups arranged low to high risk, Income, Value, Growth, Trading, Speculation, helps new investors understand some of their many investment choices. Choosing from these investing strategies can set you on the path to financial security. While there are numerous variations within each broad strategic group; no strategy offers the impossible: risk free investing.

Wealth Building Step 3 – Learn Investing Basics

Wealth Building Step 3 – Learn Investing Basics. Today’s White Top View post concludes our introduction to the three proven steps to wealth.

After covering the critical 1st step, debt control, we continued with the essential 2nd step, saving. Now we turn our attention to the wealth building 3rd step, learn investing basics as the best way of building your wealth.

Save, the 1st Wealth Building Step – Save, Pay Yourself 1st

Step 2 Save to Build Wealth – Pay Yourself 1st. Save as much as possible as fast as possible. Get debt under control, then save as much as you can as fast as you can. The one – two punch of debt control and saving gives you the fastest and best way to begin your path to wealth. Beginning is the most important part. Begin today. Just decide that today you start your journey to financial security.

2 Debt 1ST Step to Wealth – Debt Control

1ST Step to Wealth – Debt Control. Debt control – Your first, critical and most important step to wealth. Without control of debt you and your family have no hope of being wealthy. Learn this and teach your children to begin their path to financial security. Last discussion we touched on the three proven steps to wealth established over many generations by numerous families. Additionally, any self made person wishing to pass on their success must give this knowledge to their children. Today we further examine that 1st step, debt control. Borrowing and debt control – borrow the minimum – pay back as fast as possible

4 Wealth builder rules

3 Wealth Building Steps. Short of inheriting wealth, winning the lottery or starting Facebook you need to get rich from your own efforts. You can do that. You can choose to follow a well worn and proven path already taken by many others as the steps to getting rich. Know and follow three simple rules as the steps to getting rich: 1. Borrow – Debt Control – borrow the minimum and pay as fast as possible. 2. Save – Pay yourself 1st – save as much as possible as fast as possible. 3. Learn – Investing – become a knowledgeable investor.

If you must look at Options

If you must look at options, begin by reading, Options for Dummies by George A. Fontanills. This low cost and readily available introductory book gives good basic coverage of the options spectrum. It serves as a good reference to keep on hand.
Last discussion I made it clear that option trades have no place in a beginner’s portfolio. It is good to be aware of them and to learn about them. Only consider using options after you become a knowledgeable and experienced investor.

Option risks, dangers and opportunities!

NO options nohow – danger for new investors! Options have no place in the portfolio of anyone new to investing. You must master investing basics before you consider looking at or using any derivative. Options are a type of derivative. Derivatives are financial creations “derived” or based on a real asset. They are bets on a future price for the underlying asset. Extreme losses can be quickly realised when you get ahead of yourself while learning to invest. Getting into derivatives too soon can be a danger to your wealth.

Weeding your investment portfolio

Every 6 months you must be weeding your investment portfolio. Keep good holdings, eliminate bad positions. Regularly scheduling performance reviews achieves your investing goals faster. Mark your calendar so the reviews do not slip by.

FED begins Quantitative Tightening grinding out a tapering decade

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began “Taper Talk”. Part 1 of 3 Why does tapering matter? Today we discuss the pending Fed tapering as market reactions and the high volume of strydent commentary continue to confuse investors. The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank continues to pump massive amounts of money into the economy. This stimulus program will have an end. That will be when the economy picks up and shows progress without needing the continuing massive Fed funding.
Tapering describes the planned slow reduction of that programed Fed spending. The current phase of the Fed program has them deeply involved in funding virtually all the mortgage market. The Fed continues buying mortgages at the rate of $85 billion per month.

8 big money matters

To become an effective investor you must think through your approach to money and matters related to it. The big 8 money matters for investors: money, income, debt, saving, spending, investing,