STRATEGIES FOR INVESTMENT IN STOCK

Investing in stock investment without a strategy is like searching for a treasure without a map. The correct stock investment strategy should not only define your investment methods, but will allow you to achieve your financial goals within your specified timeframe.

Four factors that determine your stock investment strategy .
To determine your stock investment strategy you first will need to know the following:

• Goals - The total amount of money you will need to accomplish your goals.
• Timeframe - The length of time until you need to achieve your goals.
• Risk level - How much risk you are willing to take to achieve your goals.
• Return level - What returns you are you expecting to achieve on your investments.

If you don't know what your financial goals are take a moment right now to write out where you want to be financially in the future. You may want to retire early, pay for college or just live more comfortably. Make sure to attach a dollar amount that indicates how much you need for that goal along with a timeframe you would like to achieve that goal. We all have important goals in our lives that we need to take into consideration when we create a stock investment strategy.

The amount of time that is available to achieve any goal is very important. Simply put if you don't have enough time to achieve your goal based on your current return then you will need to adjust your return, decrease your goal or make your timeframe longer. Having a shorter timeframe can put you into a different stock investment strategy than what you were initially thinking.

Certain goals can be very aggressive for a specific timeframe and that can lead to your risk level being higher than what you would like, but have to have in order to achieve those goals. There is a correlation to risk vs reward in investing and making sure that the higher risk can result in a reward high enough to justify a temporary setback with a losing stock investment.

The return level that is needed to achieve your goals based on your timeframe might not always be what your expecting. If your timeframe is shorter than what you would like to achieve your goal then your returns will have to compensate for the shortcoming. This can sometimes result is a higher risk level than one might be used to.

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