To make money in the stock market one must be willing to
invest for the long term. And one must
be willing to budget some money each month for investment. My investment
strategy advises one to invest no more than $1,500 a week. This may be too much
money for many people to put aside. Don’t be discouraged. Just look at my
weekly stock suggestions. I will have no more than three equity suggestions a
week. Each of these purchases will be around $500. So, you could just pick the
one you like the best and only invest in $500 for a week. You can pick and
choose your investment strategy. Maybe you only want to invest $1000 a month.
When you go to the web site www.capitalistwizard.com and select the Current
Positions tab you will find my buy suggestions. I show the stock name, the
ticket symbol, and the suggested number of shares to buy. I also show a brief description that will
explain the nature of the company’s business. You can use the ticket symbol to
do personal research on an individual equity. You can do this research right
from your online broker. Whatever you buy you can keep tabs of the percentage
gain or loss on my web site. If you place an order at the exact same time as I
do than our stock purchase prices will match. My equity buy tips are posted on the
weekend. By placing the order on the weekend, you will synchronize your stock
purchase with mine. The transaction will not go into effect until Monday
morning with the opening of the stock market at 9:30am EST (Eastern Standard
Time).
Every week I update the home page and the portfolio section
of my web site www.capitalistwizard.com. On the Portfolio page I
update the yearly percentage gain and date of the update. This date will be on
Friday after the closing of the stock market on 4pm. The percentage gain will
fluctuate from week to week. This percentage shows the profit I have received
from my investments in the past year. I back this percentage up by showing my
individual stocks and what percentage of gain or loss they have made. One can
look at this by clicking on the portfolio tab of my web site. You should place
your buy order at the same time as I do. If you do your percentage will match
mine. To synchronize your order with mine you just must make sure that your
order is made before the stock market opens at 9:30am the day after I place my
stock tip. Both our orders will be filled at the same time, so we will both pay
the same market price.
Each equity purchase in my portfolio section will show a
percentage of profit or loss in the past year. This will be calculated as such.
If I purchase a stock for five hundred dollars and I sell it for six hundred
dollars I, make one hundred dollars profit. This will be a profit of twenty
percent. But if I have only owned the stock for one month than it is
justifiable to multiply the twenty percent by twelve. This is to calculate
twelve months in the year. Then my return will be two hundred and forty
percent. If I have owned the stock for two years than it is justifiable to
multiply the twenty percent profit by .5% making my return on investment ten
percent. Anytime I sell stock I calculate the percentage gain or loss. This
percentage will stay the same for a year. When a year is up the percentage for
the stock is no longer calculated into my total percentage. This shows an
accurate view of one year’s profit. When a stock is sold the money is
reinvested in another equity purchase. This purchase will be calculated into
the total percentage. For stocks that are still owned the profit percentage
will fluctuate from week to week.
There are two other variables that influence the profit
percentage for an individual stock. One is an expense and it is the commission
fee of buying and selling equities. Recently this expense has been lowered to
near zero. The other variable is a profit that is distributed to the
stockholder in the form of dividends. For each investment I show dividend
payments received in the past year. Each month new dividend payments are
recorded while the dividend payments from over a year ago are dropped. When
calculating dividends into the profit percentage I figure in the dividends
received in the last year and I add this percent to the overall percentage of
profit due to equity value.
The investment strategy shown in the web site www.capitalistwizard.com
takes advantage of profit taking. Stocks are sold at a profit using stop-loss
orders. If the stock goes up in value the stop-loss order price is raised. When
the order is eventually filled, and the stock is sold then profit is
guaranteed. When beginning this investment strategy, it will be necessary to
continue depositing cash in one’s online broker account. After a couple years
of investing one runs into a different problem. This is the problem of having
too much cash on hand. With all the extra cash available due to profit taking
it will become easier to have $1,500 cash available for investment each week.
And one will still want to set aside savings each month for investment. But
there are times when major corrections in the market will cause lots of
stop-loss orders to be filled. This will leave you with lots of extra cash in
your online broker account. There are three things I will list for you to do
with this extra cash. You can withdraw the cash and spend it. Or you could
place the cash into a secure investment in the form of bonds or certificates of
deposits. This is an effective way to diversify one’s portfolio so that all
your assets are not invested in equities. You can do this easily through your
online broker account. The third thing you can do is deposit this money into a
401K online broker account. In this way you can continue to follow the
investment strategy of the web site www.capitalistwizard.com without having to pay
taxes on the profits until retirement. You will find a great deal of
flexibility in saving options. You still can use your regular cash online
broker account for your children’s college fund while still setting aside
retirement money in your 401K account. Both accounts will be purchasing
equities. There will also be certificate of deposits or bonds reaching
maturity. You will have to decide what to do with this cash. My hope is that
this article makes investment seem easier.
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