High Level Investing For Dummies
Paul Mladjenovic
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High Level Investing For Dummies
Paul Mladjenovic
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Enhance your investment portfolio and take your investments to the next level!
Do you have an investment portfolio set up, but want to take your knowledge of investing a step further? High-Level Investing For Dummies is the resource you need to achieve a more advanced understanding of investment strategies—and to maximize your portfolio's profits. Build upon your current knowledge of investment, particularly with regard to the stock market, in order to reach a higher level of understanding and ability when manipulating your assets on the market. This approachable resource pinpoints key pitfalls to avoid and explains how to time your investments in a way that maximizes your profits.
Investing can be intimidating—but it can also be fun! By building upon your basic understanding of investment strategies you can take your portfolio to the next level, both in terms of the diversity of your investments and the profits that they bring in. Who doesn't want that?
- Up your investment game with proven strategies that help increase profits and minimize risks
- Avoid common pitfalls of stock speculating to make your investment strategy more impactful
- Understand how to time the market to maximize returns and improve your portfolio's performance
- Uncover hidden opportunities in niche markets that can bring welcome diversity to your portfolio
High-Level Investing For Dummies is the perfect follow-up to Stock Investing For Dummies, and is a wonderful resource that guides you through the process of beefing up your portfolio and bringing home a higher level of profits!
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Getting Started with High-Level Investing
- Find out what you must do before you invest your first dollar in stocks. Know what steps are necessary so your stock investing is successful.
- Understand the risks and how to minimize them so you’ll have more winners than losers in your portfolio.
- Get the scoop on diversification and allocation so your stock investing is consistently profitable regardless of what’s happening with the economy and financial markets.
- Find great companies to invest in and pay as little as possible for their stocks. Check out what successful investors look for when they analyze a company.
- Use brokerage orders and services to maximize your profits while minimizing your losses.
- See how markets are interrelated. Know which investments can perform well while others are doing poorly so you can choose the right stocks in the right markets.
Taking Stock before You Invest at a Higher Level
The Basics: Defining and Categorizing Stocks
- Private: A private company is one of the hundreds of thousands of proprietors and other business organizations that you transact with but typically cannot invest in conveniently.
- Public: Public companies, on the other hand, are business entities that are organized so that you can participate as an investor without needing to participate in the daily operations of the companies.
Defining stock
- Common: In this book, I primarily cover common stock, which entitles the stockholder (or stock owner) to vote at shareholder meetings (either in person or by mail or email communication) and receive any dividends that may be issued.
- Preferred: Preferred stock usually doesn’t give the holder voting rights, but it does provide some preferential treatment over common-stock holders, such as priority treatment in receiving dividends. Additionally, in the extreme event of the company’s bankruptcy, preferred-stock holders rank ahead of common-stock holders (and after creditors) in recouping money from liquidation.
Checking out market capitalization
- Micro cap (up to $250 million): These stocks are the smallest stocks and, all things being equal, are considered the riskiest (flip to Chapter 2 for details on assessing risk). Some of these stocks are also referred to as penny stocks.
- Small cap ($250 million to $1 billion): Small-cap stocks are the bulwark for people seeking aggressive gains, especially in bull markets, but they come with greater risk. I go into detail on small-cap stocks in Chapter 7.
- Mid cap ($1 billion to $10 billion): For long-term investors, this category provides great potential compromise between the small caps and the larger companies. Mid caps are less risky than small caps but have more room to grow than larger companies.
- Large cap ($10 billion to $50 billion): This category is appropriate for conservative, long-term investors. This category may not have the growth potential of the lower cap levels, but these stocks are more reliable and tend to be the leaders in their marketplace.
- Mega cap or ultra cap (more than $50 billion): These stocks represent pieces of the biggest companies not only in their sectors but in the world. Mega-cap stocks tend to be in most portfolios and are the most widely held. They may not hold much growth potential versus other cap levels, but they’re certainly more predictable holdings.
Investigating the Dual Nature of Stock Investing
- The company: On one hand, you have the company itself. It’s the physical entity involved with sales and expenses, products, services, personnel, budgets, and a thousand other moving parts. It succeeds by providing for the wants and/or needs of customers in a competitive marketplace against other companies seeking to do the same and hopefully makes a profit doing so.
- The stock: On the other hand, you have the company’s stock. The price of the stock rises or falls on a given market day based on the cumulative buying and selling of its shares in the stock market.