I’ve often heard people say: “Investing is no different that gambling.”
Au contraire. There is a big distinction between gambling and investing.
Gambling looks like this:
- Buying stocks or bonds willy-nilly,
- Following a hot tip
- Purchasing the hottest fund,
- Trying to time the market (buying when it’s high, freaking out and selling when it plunging),
- Deferring decisions to another and sticking your head in the sand.
Investing, on the other hand, looks like this:
- Creating a financial plan based on your goals and risk tolerance
- Building a diversified portfolio, based on the plan.
- Adhering to the plan until something changes.
- Making decisions supported by your plan not your emotions.
If you don’t have an idea of where you want to end up, it will be far more difficult to make the right decisions. Which is exactly why I created One Year to Wealth…Becoming a Savvy Investor. If you want to become a Savvy Investor in 2017, join me for this year long course. Learn more.
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