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How to make money in the Stock Market? Is there a safe way?

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2. There is a safe way, the stock symbol for it is SWY.
3. There is no completely safe way to make money on the stock market. But you can make it as safe as possible by spreading your investments among many companies and selling loosing stocks before they do too much damage to your portfolio. The biggest losses usually come from holding onto a loosing stock that goes down day after day. A 2% to 3% loss in one day is not that much. But if hold it for a couple of weeks, then you can end up loosing 20% to 30% of your investment in that stock.
4. There is no absolute safe way in making money in the stock market.However,there are techniques you can use or certain companies that you can buy that can make investing in the stock market as safe as possible. However, the safer or the lower the risk in making the investment, the lower will be the potential return.For example buying blue chip companies or holding on to an investment over a longer period can make money for you and also assure you of some degree of safety.
5. Safe way to make money in the Stock Market is long term investment in blue chip Stocks. Source http://finance.tipz.in
6. Safe=low returns, are you sure that is what you want? There is no gurantee in protection of your principle so stocks aren't for you.
7. safe or unsafe in stock market is a relative subject; which very much to do with your risk tolerance. you can either approach the stock market as fundamental investor (invest in the business), technical investor (trade the stock according to trend) or both (simply choose good stock and trade them frequently).
8. If you invest for the long term (5 years or more), it is very safe to invest in index funds and some mutual funds. Most blue chip stocks would do pretty well over 5 years or more, but it starts to get much more risky when you try to pick individual stocks. In the short term, the stock market is driven by fear and greed. Short term stock purchases are more similar to gambling than investing based on fundemental value.
9. Risk and reward walk hand-in-hand down Wall Street. If you want big rewards from investing, you have to take significant risks. That means you could lose big, too. Losses are a real risk, as is evident from today's stock market. It's best to balance risk and reward by diversifying your investments and not looking to hit a home run. Over the long haul, you'll probably do well. If you want safety, go for short term investments, like federally insured bank or credit union accounts, Treasury bills or money market funds that invest only in Treasury securities. These investments are not ideal for long term retirement investing. But if you really can't stomach losses, put your money in one of them for now. You can shift the money into other investments later. See the webpages listed below for more information.
10. DIVERSIFY!!! buy things in different industries. Buy mutual funds if you don't want to buy stocks yourself, they are a lot safer. Buy intl. mutual funds. Read the newspaper.
11. There is always some systematic risk inherent in the stock market. Risk and expected return go together. There is no completely save way to invest in the stock market.
12. If you think about it, investors as a whole, cannot do any better than the index and for every winner who celebrates there is a loser crying. Diversification is the foremost recommendation in investment theory and in the limit, this also becomes the index. Therefore buy the cheapest index tracker MF and hold it. Review the situation every 6 months and whenever you find the price has fallen, buy some more. Individual companies can go bust or make big losses but the index cannot. You are as safe as the US and you will do as well as the average investor without any sleepless nights. Incidentally, this is not from my own wisdom, it is the advice of some of the legendary professional investors of the past. Of course, if you want the thrill of quick buying and selling and pitting your wits against other punters, that is another matter. I am talking about investing, not gambling.
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15. Okay... a "Master's Class" of investing "safely"... There is a wide range of what people consider "safe" investing. Each individual's definition is typically based upon their dynamic of choice...be that... 1) time based "I might need this (or some of it) money in the next week/month/year/few years" etc. 2) the level of "fluctuation" that an individual is comfortable with, or NOT comfortable with ("I don't want to see ANY negative values EVER!", up to, "Hey, I know the market can bounce up and down +/- 10% or more in a short time...but I'm working with "extra money" and am in this to "hit it big" buying dips and taking the "big gamble" shots.") 3) Whatever your "personal" definition is...probably is somewhere in the middle. Methods of investing with "some version" of safety..... 1) Guaranteed returns???!!!: - FDIC guarantees...means CD's...one of the lowest interest rates around...and...being "fixed" into a "set rate" of return. It is also typically taxed at the same level as your "personal income tax rate"...a low return and high tax exposure...not one of my favorites...but it is "safe" if you're with a financially sound bank. - Insurance products...guarantees with little or nearly no risk...this means an Annuity, fixed or adjustable. *Fixed means...about the same rates as a CD, a low rate, but with "tax-deferred growth" and the rate you receive is net of fees (not net of taxes, net of fees). *Adjustable annuities...there are many bad ones out there...that is why annuities have a bad name in some circles. Yet, like attorneys, there are good ones too! (I'm not an attorney). A highly rated insurance company with "principal guarantees" and without a "annuitization" requirement to get your money back after "X" period of time...and you can get the upside potential of the market (thru subaccount mutual funds of your chosing) and the guarantees/protections granted by the insurance company. 2) Non-guaranteed returns...require "strategies" to limit the risk associated with investing in the stock market. - Dollar-cost-averaging...I has been said that Einstein once stated that "compound interest is the greatest invention in the world"....or something like that...or...he may have never said it...you know how people re-write history sometimes. Anyway...getting your money to make more money, compounding upon itself year after year...what a beautiful way to become wealthy! The "common man" way to do this is with regular payroll contributions into a retirement plan (i.e. 401k, but any IRA, annuity, regular brokerage account, etc can do). You limit your risk by buying small bits of a fund/stock regularly over time...acheiving a smaller/lower cost basis on your investment...and again...over time...grow that money into a "measureable amount". I do not have time here to go into ways to limit that risk as money becomes accumulated...that falls under "active management". 3) "Invest for the long term".....a commonly used phrase by people who don't really know what the "#?!@?" they are talking about...and allow themselves to "become slaves to the Almighty Index." Yes, over nearly any 10 year period an "investor" has made money on their money...but not everyone can, or wants to, wait out 10 YEARS to see if the odds play to their favor "this time". Hey, long term investing is good...but "riding the index" is for the less informed and "penny-wise pound-foolish" crowd. 4) Actively manage your money (or find an honest/ sincere/ knowlegeable professional to do it for you!). There are many ways to "manage your risk"...here are just a few..... - spread out your risk...buy funds/stocks in several sectors of the market. The Dow Jones...is ONLY 30 stocks...Nasdaq...about 100....that's 130 stocks out of 4,000+/- in the stock market. Typically, if you don't own the 30 largest industrialist companies in the market, or the 100 largest tech-oriented companies in the market...you have A LOT OF OTHER CHOICES to invest in. Plus...you won't care what the "dow and nasdaq did today" anymore. Some other "indexes" or "sectors" are: real estate (residential/ mortgage/ hospitals/ nursing homes/ industrial/ etc), natural resources (gold/ oil/ minerals/ copper/ uranium/ paper goods, etc etc), healthcare, small cap stocks, mid-size company stocks, international stocks (Emerging markets, Asia, Asia minus Japan, Europe, Latin America, etc etc), utilities, REITs (commercial and residential), etc etc etc. Then if one sector starts to drop...shift the emphasis to what is now growing faster...but NEVER too many eggs in any one or three baskets! - Buying "protection"... another way to say... learn about "simple strategies" for options. You can use options to "protect/lock-in profits". If your investment gains 40% or more (% is your choice, I just picked this "low" one) and you don't want to see it "give it all back"...buy a "put" option...(simplest form)...before the next crucial event (earnings report, new product launch, buyout event, political election?, etc). See www.888options.com or the www.cboe.com for "free", really..."free" lessons, tutorials, etc... 5) Keep it all in balance..... mix it up...give yourself some "safety net" space. This is what I get paid to do for people in "active management stuff" that are "conservative"... put enough money into "fixed rates of return" to give your "market exposure" (stocks/funds) a "safety net." I.e. 2/3 of your money makes 6%, the other 1/3 has to lose 12% to give you a "breakeven" return...I know...simple brilliance...wish you'd thought of it...not hard.....have fun...but that only works with people who are happy with little/less return potential in both UP markets...returns are held back by the lower interest rates on 2/3 of your money...and not making as much as you could in interest if your "market money" is flat...it brings down your average "fixed rate" return. Ideally, the interest rates are "decent" and your funds/stocks do great...and you are too greedy, after saying you're "conservative". Well, enough...or too much for tonight...time to go to bed. I've rambled off enough stuff from "off the top of my head" or as they say..."in a stream of consciousness" writing session. Best of luck. **if you'd like to learn more...see my other posts...I don't ever post "trivial stuff"...not that I can ever recall. You will find a TON of links to learning sites from them. **Oh, and forgive my occasional rants...like this one... Ignore the intellectually challenged and the "a little information is a dangerous thing" crowd. Professionals "as a whole" don't beat the average...uh, that's what makes it into an average!!! In every "average" class there are those who "mess up" the curve for everyone else...that's who you hire to "manage your money"...be smart enough to hire the "A/B students"...not the brain dead "goofs" who repeat other people's "wise sayings" in an effort to make themselves seem smarter than they are. Okay, sorry, tired.....have fun, God bless us all!!!
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