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Focus Your Investments on the Long Term

“All human power is a compound of time and patience!” Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)

Long term investing or “Buy and Hold” is not about hunches, emotions, stock tips, market timing or making quick profits! It’s about using proven long-term strategies to accumulate wealth over time!

A large part of the daily volume on the exchanges is due to traders who hope to make a small profit by taking advantage of small discrepancies in the pricing of securities, or who are able to buy a stock as soon a favorable analysts report is issued and who hope to profit before the inevitable runup.

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The average investor just doesn’t have time to lcd телевизоры ENZO devote hours a day to following the market. Fortunately, they have an alternative. By spending just a few hours a month, пылесос Panasonic investors can build a successful stock portfolio, one that will stand up over the long term and deliver excellent returns.

Over the history of the modern stock market, one trend is clear: the overall market keeps growing and growing! The setbacks have been relatively minor and short-lived, compared to the tendency of the market to grow year after year.

Statistics have shown that even if you invest at the peak of the market year after year, you would still show a decent return on your investment, much higher than nearly every other kind of asset.

That’s why most individual investors should focus on growth for the long-term, and concentrate on fundamental analysis in building a portfolio of stocks. Fundamental analysis is simply buying hot companies, instead of hot stocks!

Using fundamental analysis, and with a long-term perspective, it’s possible for any individual to identify a diversified and balanced portfolio consisting of микроволновые печи Cata the stocks of quality companies.

Once selected, these stocks can be held year after year, Assistant AM-11202 and any downturn in the market would likely signal a buying opportunity. Maintaining a portfolio like this would only require a few hours a month.

Here are some guidelines for long-term growth stock investors:

Buy good, strong growth companies with proven track records.

Don’t buy concept stocks, but select quality stocks, and always keep your portfolio diversified.

Keep on investing regularly and don’t try to make a quick profit, slow money is worth just as much!

Invest with a long-term perspective and reinvest any dividends you receive.

Don’t place your trust on tips, do your homework and find out all the facts you can before you buy a stock! Above all, invest, don’t speculate …

And don’t try to compete with the professionals!

Copyright © 2005 I.E.C. Haramis
haramis@greekshares.com
http://www.greekshares.com

Ioannis - Evangelos C. Haramis was born in Greece in 1951 and he studied in Greece, USA and in Belgium. He has been active in the stock markets since 1972. Since 2002 he is New Business Development Managing Director at an Investment Bank.

Awareness and Resistance

I’m well aware that many people will become pissed off, turned off, put off, or simply want me to step off when I stray from “safe” topics like productivity and time management and explore more sensitive, even controversial topics like relationships, health, or spirituality. However, from past experiences I’ve seen that it’s the ideas we resist most vehemently that are fertile ground for new growth experiences.

Through this blog I’m providing ideas for you to react to, and your reaction to those ideas becomes the seed for your own personal growth. If an idea resonates with you, great. If an idea seems to have no impact on you, it’s not likely important for your growth. But if an idea sparks a fire of resistance within you, there you have a potent seed for growth.

Exploring your own resistance to ideas can help you clarify your own thinking and understand why you believe what you do. My goal isn’t to convert everyone to my way of thinking about subjects like diet or spirituality or relationships. My goal is to help raise your awareness of how you think and behave and to encourage you to make such choices more consciously and deliberately instead of falling back on social conditioning and/or mindlessness.

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