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  • #16
    investing basics

    Before you start investing, you should start by –
    Identifying your personal and financial goals.
    Making a good budget, and work out how much you have to invest.
    Working out what sort of investor you are, and how much risk you’re willing to take.
    Investing, as sooner you start, the sooner you’ll reach your goals.
    Getting a good advice. A financial advisor can develop a plan tailored to your personal needs and goals.

    Think about your goals first. Perhaps you are saving for a holiday, for a home deposit or to pay for a child’s education. Or your goal may be to boost retirement savings. You can then see that different goals have different time frame. You may only have 6 months or a year to save for a holiday but if you are saving for your retirement you might have 25-50 years.

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    • #17
      As many people said, it is not really smart idea to jump into the investment itself before the preparation. To me, it is crucial to get educated before investing in any investments. Otherwise, investment becomes pure speculations. I highly recommend you to read some books that prepare you to get more financial education. My recommendation is to at first cultivate investment mindset and then learn about macro-economy as well as monetary history of what happened in the past to predict the future. Here is the partial list of my recommended books.

      Mindset
      - Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki - Investment Mindset)
      - Rich Dad Cash Flow Quadrant (Robert Kiyosaki - Investment Mindset)
      - The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaire and Middle Class (Keith Cameron Smith - Investment Mindset)
      - The Secret of the Millionaire Mind (T. Harv Eker - Investment Mindset)

      Macro-economy and monetary history

      - Rich Dad Conspiracy of the Rich (Robert Kiyosaki)
      - Rich Dad Guide of Investing in Gold and Silver (Michael Maloney)
      - Creature from Jekyll island (G. Edward Griffin)
      - Crash Course (Chris Martenson)

      If you understand all of those things, you will automatically know what kind of investment strategies you will utilize to maximize your investment returns.

      I hope this will help!

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