Investing Strategies-how to achieve financial success
Develop The Right Attitude
The following personality traits will help you achieve financial success:
* Discipline: Develop a plan, and stick with it. As you continue to learn, you’ll become more confident that you’re on the right track. Alter your asset allocation based on changes in your personal situation, not because of some short term market fluctuation.
* Confidence. Let your intelligence, not your emotions, make your decisions for you. Understand that you will make mistakes and take losses; even the best investors do. Re-evaluate your strategy from time to time, but don’t second-guess it.
* Patience: Don’t let your emotions be ruled by today’s performance. In most cases, you shouldn’t even be watching the day-to-day performance, unless you like to. Also, don’t ever feel like it’s now or never; don’t be pressured into an investment you don’t yet understand or feel comfortable with.
The following personality traits will hurt your chances of financial success:
* Fear. If you are unwilling to take any risk, you will be stuck with investments that barely beat inflation.
* Greed. As an investment class, ‘get rich quick’ schemes have the worst returns. If your expectations are unrealistically high, you’ll go for the big scores, which usually don’t work.
It is generally a good idea to avoid making financial decisions based on emotional factors.
Posted: July 9th, 2010 under Knowledge of Stock, Stock of Knowledge.
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