Saturday, November 3, 2007

Minimize Your Risk in Stock Market Investing

Nobody wants to lose in trading on stock market. It doesn’t necessarily mean that to achieve good profits one has to invest heavily and risk greatly, although people say that investing money entails a great amount of risk.

A well-informed investor will make a good decision on how to make profits with minimum loss. The tips is to determine if the profit is worth the risk . Don’t ever take risk that will bring away your everything. This is not gambling. In stock market investing, people should ask themselves whether they want to take the risk.

And that’s why, before you start trading on the stock market, you should ask yourself about:
  • What is your goal? What do you want to achieve by investing in the stock market?

  • Are your investments going to lose money?

  • Are you willing to take bigger risk for better profits? How big?

By deciding your own achievement goals, you will know how long you are willing to wait for a stock to gain profit. Also consider your own limit on how much you are willing to lose. It will bring you idea on how are you going to invest in stocks, to determine your stock investments strategy.

If you choose to invest in low return stock, it means to gain a considerable profits, you have to increase the amount or increase the length of time invested.

To complete your knowledge on stock market investments, here are some tips to minimize your risk:


1. Know when to invest
The best traders don’t trade everyday and all the time. Don’t get excited when your stocks go up or fall down, stock prices go up and down all the time, use 50% of the time for waiting and studying how a stock performs. Don’t make decisions based on a whim and factors that don’t usually affect a stock in the long run.


2. Try to be discipline
Wait for the best stock to come along. Don’t get over excited to trade on a stock that looks half-decent enough.


3. Watch out for big stocks and concentrate on a few
Don’t waste time by dabbling in so many small stocks with minimal profits. Make small moves but with big payoffs.


4. Don’t be emotionally involved
Losing money can get you depressed and making money excited. That’s why in stock market investing you should detach yourself from your emotions to make yourself looking at things objectively.

Trading stocks could be a high risk high return scenario.Take your time to study, research and be patient.
Don’t take unnecessary risk, it’s your money, your loss