Investment basics

This article is to give you an idea about some of the investment basics - that you should know before you start putting your money on stock market.

Not exactly. But unfortunately, that's how many new investors think of the stock market - as a short-term investment vehicle that either brings huge monetary gains or devastating losses. With that attitude, the stock market is as reliable a form of investment as a game of roulette.

• Buy the company
  Stock market can be irrational in the short term. Good companies, at times make temporary losses. But an investor should not get diverted by this.
  
  
• Contrarian investing
  Contrarian investing is the complete opposite of momentum investing. It assumes that financial instruments which have been rising steadily will reverse and start to fall, and vice versa with falling.
  
  
• Outperform the market
  All investors must choose the Best Stocks in the Best Sectors, re-evaluate and refine their investing styles and strategies from time to time. I have potential subscribers, frequently ask me 'Can you consistently outperform the market?'
  
  

  

• Trade systems
  Trade systems are nothing but a reflection of what happens in our brains. They are electronic platforms for entering trading orders with an algorithm which executes pre-programmed trading instructions ...

Learn about how companies can be publicly held corporations through stock. Learn how private individuals invest in these companies in hopes that these companies will make a profit or in time make a profit.

Learn terms such as bull market, bear market, stock, shares, dividends, short sell, going long, NYSE, Sensex, Nifty, NASDAQ, the Dow Jones, the S&P500, profit, loss, and other market words.

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