Do You Invest In Stocks and Shares?

Sticking with high quality stocks over any 20 year period has always been very advantageous. If you have a 20-30 year outlook, investing in high quality stocks should be part of your retirement planning, especially now with the market where it is at. However, if you are investing with funds that you may need within the next 5 years, you many want to reconsider, as currently there are many questions regarding the near term future of our economy and the stock market.

I have never bought any stocks or shares. I was contemplating on such idea but never had the guts to do it. I think it is important to know a lot of things about the economic situations before deciding to buy such shares or stocks. I have hear that there are those that really lose everything from buying shares. I really don't know if it would be wise to buy shares right now.

i do not fool w/the stock market. haven't got much & i'm sure not going to fool around w/what i do have.

I never invested in stocks or shares.These are gambling to me.I don't want to go any risk.I prefer easy going life.Which I earn from my job that's sufficient for me.I don't want extra money.

Hi muru, i too burnt my fingers in stock market. But later i took some advise from friends who were very experienced and started investing again. i feel now the prices of most shares have come down considerably all over the world and it is the right time to invest in some quality shares and wait for a couple of years. I feel that most people burn their fingers while doing day trade..

why what happened? did the company you bought stocks from went down/bankrupt? well, i used to want to invest in stocks on solid companies who are still surviving up to now and i am a bit tempted to buy stocks right now that the prices are low, but i am still unsure of the risks.

if you can't take risk, i suggest you stay with more stable investments like putting your money in the bank and wait for the interest to double you money, but we all know that not going to happen because the interest all the bank are more or less 5%. if you don't have the heart and mind of a trader, i suggest you should stay away from the stock market, but if you are young and you can take risk, i suggest you learn as much as you can from books and from the internet about stocks and how to make money.

I categorized my earnings in five (5) types; daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually. Stocks trading falls into my quarterly earnings and I do actively transacting my stocks in long term type of investment and so far never for short term range as well as short selling. Opportunity is everywhere in stocks market and how we do our transaction depends on how we discerned ourselves. My financial capacity for now, I trade for 1 lot for "blue chip" stock and 10 lots for "cheap" stock. At the same time, I spare some for "floating" case if it happens on my "blue chip" stock. For "Blue chip" stock, normally, the fluctuation figure is at high scale and if dropped far down I will make my entry for another 1 lot. I never practice "marginal" trading since I involved in 1989. For "cheap" stocks, it fluctuates in small scale either up or down. Not much gaining in this area of stocks, actually. But, I am waiting for "founder's trick" for them to rocketing their own company's stock. At this time, a real lofty earnings for me and very exciting as well as rewarding. The clue is, I have to search for an extra information for when it is going to happen.

I'm very intrested in this. I've heard that's a very good way to earn money, but it requires lots of learning and time which I don't have in this period of time in my life. I hope that after my army service, I will get into that, and earn some money.

I don't think I'd have the courage to buy stocks and shares, as I wouldn't want to lose money, and feel I don't know enough about it. Also, when you think of all the people who have lost money recently, even though they were financial experts, I wouldn't trust what anyone advised either.

Hi, It is right that this is the best time to invest. These type of situations comes very rarely. Though there is a great economy crunch, but at the same time we have a great chance to invest money. Though you have already burned your hands in stocks but that may be the wrong time. One think I can tell you that, if you miss this time then you will never come back to stocks again. So just invest and wait for 2-3 years. Happy investing.