reasons for investment failure?
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No entry or exit point.\nDon't do homework.\nTrust someone else who are not an expert.
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Investing in a business that you love can effect your judgment as to the quality of the investment (believe me I know). Your better off going for your first house and getting a real asset on your sheet.
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commodity is risky.  \n\ndepending on your investment goals, I would talk to a financial advisor.  Usually your bank will have people you can talk to for free.\n\ngood luck.
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Check their respective prospectus. If they refuse to give, walk away. That's your right as investor.\n\n:->
1186247
On the springboard of life, can't we invest our thoughts on a higher plane without the same stock answers. Can we not form a stronger bond without taking the plunge? I t doesn't take much to make the stock market nervous (notice how we refer to it as an organic entity?). I can remember analysts informing us that good news (better than forcasted) spooked the market. I can't recall the details, but the upshot was that the news, while being optimistic, could lead to inflation or deflation or recession, or who knows. Trying to read the tea leaves of the stock market will drive us all crazy.  Invest in companies, not stocks. Companies that have high growth yields. Anything else is like playing with Tarot cards.
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The weakness and a lack of confidence in the US dollar is part of the increase in the price of gold.  Additionally investors are wary about investment alternatives interest rates are low, so money market accounts and bonds do not look attractive.  The run-up of real estate prices make it seem unlikely to be a profitable investment in the near term.  The stock market bubble is still in the mind of investors also.\n\nIt is not as much that gold is seen as an attractive invetment as there seems to be a lack of an alternative.
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There must be some kind of paper trail to show that there was an investment.  A contract to loan money or a letter of capital will show the relationship.  Money to start a business does not come except from a person.  Hope this helps and GOOD LUCK
1143005
This is a common mistake that most people make. I still try to figure this out… why do people buy when the market is high and sell when the market is low? It’s like going to a supermarket and asking them to charge you more for milk that’s on sale. \n\nHere’s some advice…\n\nInvest most of your money in mutual funds.  The reason… because they’re managed by people that know what they’re doing.  It’s ok to play individual stocks too, just don’t sink all you money into them.  You can also get away from commission fees by setting up an auto-investment plan with the online service that you’re using.  Doing some analysis won’t help you pick good companies, knowing the management will, however you and I don’t have that luxury.  So… what do we do?  Well, let’s start with the tangibles.  What products do they sell?  If that product would disappear could we live with out it or would it seriously hurt the way we live (i.e. toilet paper)?  How popular is this/these products and how easy is it to enter this particular market.  What competitors do they have?  What are they doing different?  Let’s take a look at the financials, how much debt is this company carrying? **** that’s the most important question.  Good companies become great by carrying little debt.  Look up book value ratio. This measures a company's stock price compared to it's book price.  \n\nEX.\n\nIf a company XYZ’s stock price is selling at $5 a share and the book value (liquidating the company) is $10, then just by buying this stock you’ve already made a $5 profit.   Hope this helps.\n\nAlso… hold your investments.  \n\nInvestments are supposed to be held for long periods of time. When I say long periods, I mean 10, 15, 20, 30 years. The key is that companies will make money, that’s what they’re in business for. Inflation, for a short-term, could affect this, however most companies will pass this off to consumers or find ways to cut back on costs. Do you see my logic…AS LONG AS COMPANIES ARE IN BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY, you have nothing to worry about.
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C. Risk.\n\nThe firm is more highly levered so a downturn might put them into bankruptcy.  There's no indication that they are using the money for useful purposes.  They could be using it to increase management's wealth or ego.
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It's a lottery type thing. Not on the shores of the US--that should cause you some concern. Their website says you get your return on investment in two years.
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Nothing to do with it....... they've been dropping a bit all over the place the last few weeks (or in the case of one or two of my UK stocks plummeting)...... I think it's a mix of the US dollar heading down in value, certain members of financial officialdom doing / saying the wrong things + I've noticed alot of Dividend payments cropping up on my SHAREBUILDER statements lately (already had 4 of them over Monday & Tuesday).
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The problem is the same with all investment.  There is the risk that you will lose some or all of your money.  Developing countries are especially high-risk in this regard because they frequently have political turmoil which could lead to the government (or pseudo-government) seizing/stealing your property.  Also, developing countries tend to have higher poverty and weak law enforcement, so your property is at risk for vandalism, destruction, or theft by criminals.\n\nThe solutions depend on how you actually plan to invest.  If you will be lending money to locals to establish a business, charge an appropriately high rate and do not put all of your money into one venture.  The rate must be high enough to offset your risk, but low enough to be affordable to your debtors.\n\nIf you intend to actually go into the country and establish a business, you must pay close attention to the security of your assets.  Do not expect the government to protect your property, and do not expect them to keep their word - even if it's in writing.  You must have adequate security to defend your property, and secrecy to hide as much as you can in case your defenses fail.\n\nIt is NOT easy to overcome those problems, which is why there is not more investment in developing countries.  It's really a bummer because investment and economic growth are precisely what are needed to stabilize the systems.
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property AND it's more relaible. (if something happens to it you're not at loss, you have insurance)\n\nstocks=== they can go down in value, or the corporation can fail: ie enron.\n\nmutual funds===as reliable as stocks, income is never certain, and the chance of loss is there.
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Are you quite well?\n\nIf you dealt with a firm and they made you wait too long / let them down, why in creation did you decided to do business with them again.\n\nThey can only keep taking your cash as long as you are daft enough to keep sending it to them. Sorry to be blunt, but learn from your errors.
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You're logic is flawed.  Not EVERYONE who invests uses the same identical methods and/or mathematical indexes, AND not all of them have an affect on the market.  \n\nMany, MANY different techniques are utilized... and your's would just be one more of thousands of "get rich" plans.\n\nDon't quit your day job.
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There are many reasons for this slide down\n1) the market was overvalued and the PE ratio was somwhere around 23 \n2) There were certain rumors which led to panic selling and sharp falls\n3) Some FIIs too fled the market for short time and this drawing of fund resulted in fall\n4) Mutual Funds too werent sure about the direction and were sitting on large cash\n5)Bears became operative during this phase leading to further slip down\n However dont worry about it the bulllish trend has not ended.maybe we can say this as techincal correction. In long run if u are a investor and have good fundamentally strong shares, you wont lose. Only speculators will be affected by this
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Otherwise your business cannot grow and you will make a loss!\n\nProfits are good!\n\nLosses are bad!