suppose you have 10k $ and you want to invest them in a secure project so that you can increase this amount after few months. where would you put this sum for investment these days?
Jesper de Jong wrote:No, it's because you're posting this in the Meaningless Drivel forum. Don't expect to get serious answers
Yahya Elyasse wrote:...and i'm after serious answers
Yahya Elyasse wrote:
Jesper de Jong wrote:No, it's because you're posting this in the Meaningless Drivel forum. Don't expect to get serious answers
yes you are right
However i didn't knew where to post this question here. and i'm after serious answers
Yahya Elyasse wrote:Hi,
suppose you have 10k $ and you want to invest them in a secure project so that you can increase this amount after few months. where would you put this sum for investment these days?
fred rosenberger wrote:the word "investment" usually implies long-term. I invest in the stock market. I put money in, and I'm not even LOOKING at taking anything out for 20 or more years.
"speculating" is what you are talking about - short term. this has much higher risk. you are more likely to loose your money, but you have a greater chance of making a lot of money quick (although the odds of the first still greatly outweigh the second).
Think about it this way. If you want to make a lot of money fast, go to a casino and put it all on a single number on the roulette table. If you win, you're return is 35 to 1. your 10k will become 360k, and it will only take about 30 seconds.
However, you are going to loose 36 or 37 times more often than you'll win (depending on whether it is a European wheel or an American wheel).
Or you could bet it on red/black. you can double your money quickly, but will loose it all slightly more than half the time.
It boils down to the fact that the greater the potential reward, the greater the potential risk.
Pat Farrell wrote:The US stock market just set a new high (Dow average). It has recovered all of the lost value from the 2008 crash. This is good.
Or, it can mean that if you put money into the stock market in July 2008, right now, you are just back to where you started. So you haven't increased it at all. Most people would say that such an investment was a really bad deal, five years later and you have no increase in value.
If I had $10K, and were just starting, I'd put it in a EFT that tracks the S&P 500. But I'd only do it if I was looking to invest for at least five years, and it is much better if you invest for longer, say 10 years.
Today, there are no risk-free investments. In the US, the interest rate is so low that if you buy a bank CD, you will probably get 0.25 percent per year. This is lower than inflation, and not close to covering taxes.
Yahya Elyasse wrote:I'm not a US citizen and i don't have any knowledge about the stock markets. I wonder if there is an online open stock market enabling individual investments from people around the world ?
Yahya Elyasse wrote:what to do if i want to buy some stocks of profitable IT companies like Google or apple. is this an easy process?
Yahya Elyasse wrote:I wonder what to do if i want to buy some stocks of profitable IT companies like Google or apple. is this an easy process?
Yahya Elyasse wrote:I have called my bank ...
Yahya Elyasse wrote:the answer was it doesn’t worth it.
Maneesh Godbole wrote:Agriculture of course! I heard one can double or even triple the amount in a few months with the right "connections"
Yahya Elyasse wrote:To tell the truth i'm very ignorant when it comes to money and how to invest !