Monday, April 28, 2008

Reverse Profit

How can anything “reverse” be a profit? I travel to the Money Show every twelvemonth to see with friends who have got booths and are speakers. Then when folks are filing out of talks I listen to their remarks about what I cognize the talker have been saying.

The Money Show is for investors from all
walkings of life; however, my conjecture is the median value age
is close to 60. Those who travel have got accumulated a
nest egg and now are retired or very fold to
retirement. They came to learn more than about how
to do their money grow.

Last twelvemonth there were 256 separate events not
counting what was given in the Exhibition Hall. Almost without exclusion talkers were showing
how cash can collect faster if the listener
bought his merchandise whether it was a mutual
fund, stock, bond, partnership, software or who
cognizes what. Are there that many money makers
out there?

One talker had an hr telling the market
was owed to clang and the thing to make was purchase long
term set option. He also said if you would not
make that to purchase some authorities chemical bonds which were
paying about 2 to 3%. The issue remarks I heard
were pretty well summed up by one lady who
said, “Is helium nuts. How can we dwell off 2%?”
When in a bear market the old expression is,
“He World Health Organization loses the least is a winner”. No, it’s
hard to dwell on that small a return, but
don’t lose large sums of money by trying to be invested
at all times. There have got been many old age in the
past where cash with no percent tax return beat out the
heck out of the stock market.

Go back to 2000 and retrieve that the
NASDAQ lost 78% of it value in 3 years. If you had
been in cash from 2000 to 2003 you would have
saved about 40% to 60% of your retirement
account. The Buy Normality Holders have got got still not
recovered their investments.

Selling out close (I did not state at) the
top, state within about 10 or 15%, the account would
have remained pretty darn healthy. Many investors
lost 30 to 40% Oregon more than than of their hard-earned money
and they would have got been able to purchase back many more
shares when the market resumed its upward journey. That is what I mention to as a “reverse profit”. The
net income is what was not lost by hearing to the
Buy Normality Hold brokers and financial planners.

There are 100s of thousands of investors
who have got got learned not to allow their portfolios
to depreciate more than 10 to 15% because they
have learned to sell when their equities start
to travel down. They sell and reinvest in a better
stock or monetary fund or sometimes just go forth it in
cash if there is not a good equity to buy. The winning rule of the stock market is
having an issue strategy that volition prevent
losing money.

There are modern times when having cash at zero
percent tax return will beat out a negative 45% inch the
overall market. What you don’t lose is called a
“reverse profit”.

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