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The Four Most Important Factors For Investment Success

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The Four Most Important Factors For Investment Success

Anne Kasyoka by Anne Kasyoka
14 September 2020
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There is a time when everyone thinks about investing their savings to multiply them.  A few people think to be a good investor you need to have a Ph.D. in finance, but the truth is it is not that complicated. Making a good investment decision is not hard if you follow a few important factors while making the decision.

The 4 Most Important Factors for Investment

The Savings Rate

To invest your money in something you first need to save money for it. Otherwise, what are you going to invest, and without investing your money you cannot multiply it. So it is the most important factor for investing. There will be a number of people who are going to try to lure you to invest with them to get better results and some others will warn you not to invest in the stock market because you may lose your money. These things do not matter when you are starting to invest at first. For investing capital, you first need to save capital because without savings what you are going to invest in the CFD market? So, use the option trading platform UK so that you can know more.

At the amateur level of your investing life, you need to focus on your savings rate, not on your investment returns. At first, your savings rate should be bigger than the investment outcome. You should increase your saving rate over time like 2% each year or 40% of all raises you get or both. These changes can help you to increase your savings balance easily. So, firstly focus on your saving amount if you really want to invest.

Saving or investing, which way to go?

What You Invest In

You should invest in multiple sectors rather than investing in just one sector. At beginner level investing in the stock market can make a huge impact on your returns, and in the professional level of investment, you will split your money between bonds and stocks. Stocks give you ownership in a company. They give you huge returns but they are riskier also. Investing in stocks is better when you are thinking of investing long term and it can be risky if you want a short term return.

On the other hand, bonds are actually like giving a loan to a company just like how you take loans from the bank and over time you will get back your money with interest. This interest is not so big but it is a safer investment. Last but not least, when you are investing in stocks you have to be ready for any circumstances like you can face 50% loss of your investments at any time of your investing life but you may get it back over time.

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How You Diversify

Diversification is a popular word when you are talking about investment. It means investing your money in different places rather than investing in only one place. Because of this, you can lower the investment risk without decreasing your expected investment returns. You can invest in some assets, and also some U.S and international bonds so that you can be all covered up.

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Sticking To Your Plan

At times you may think about changing your investing strategy. You may become aggressive when the market is up and want to get out when the market is down. Your co-worker may lure you to buy the stocks which he really bought hoping to turn a profit and you may buy it. Many investors do this kind of thing and as a result, they don’t get a good outcome. They end up buying at high prices and selling at low prices which is not what they had intended. So you have to be consistent with your decisions and don’t fluctuate on your investment decisions.

So making investments is not as hard as rocket science. If you follow these tips consistently during your investment life then you may enjoy a risk-free investment life.

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