{"id":2063,"date":"2010-01-25T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T09:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T09:41:23","slug":"smart-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/smart-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART INVESTMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to the stock market you must know that today\u2019s hot stock market is both inviting and intimidating to new investors. Here&#8217;s how to start an investment portfolio of your own.<br \/>\nWhen you purchase stock, the word &#8220;stress&#8221; takes on a whole new meaning as when you reads the morning paper or listens to the radio and finds that his best stock dropped 20 points a share yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The investor become habitual of reading the business section of the paper first, turning to the stock tables to see how his life is doing, this sets his mood for the day. If his stocks are up, everything is beautiful and off to work he goes with a big smile. He says proudly &#8220;I picked that stock!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMART INVESTMENT:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Read about the fundamentals of the stocks and the market, attend a seminar or take a class on investing and review online financial sites.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Set your  goals based on your financial position and a stock-picking strategy.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don&#8217;t ever buy a stock without first learning about its business and who its competition is. You want to focus on the leaders in an industry.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Invest in what you know. Consider the stocks of local companies with which you are familiar and in which you have confidence.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Check out  the past of the stock that you are going to buy.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Invest in  more than one or two stock so that lose in one stock can recover from the  profit in the another one.<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Buy stocks that you will feel comfortable holding. Resist the temptation to dump a stock the moment its price drops a few percentage points. Give it a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are new to the stock market you must know that today\u2019s hot stock market is both inviting and intimidating to new investors. Here&#8217;s how to start an investment portfolio of your own. When you purchase stock, the word &#8220;stress&#8221; takes on a whole new meaning as when you reads the morning paper or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1832,5697,5696,681],"class_list":{"0":"post-2063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-investing","8":"tag-investing-in-stock","9":"tag-smart-investment","10":"tag-stock-investment","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}