When was the last time you regret about investing your money somewhere? And when was the last time when you regret for not investing them? To me the first happens very rare, but the second - every day. Missing good opportunities is not the only mistake that small investors make.

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Keep your eye on any of the following:

1. Investing more than you can afford
Any chance that you have not done that ever? I do this mistake all the time. I see a good investment opportunity and am ready to arrange funds for it even if I am not in the best financial situation at that moment.

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Real estate investing is dumb. Really, see what happens after a mortgage crisis. If you just buy real estate because everyone says it’s cool you are making a stupid mistake. Real estate investing is dumb when done in the way everyone does it.

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If you put some thought into it however it might turn into a tool offering one of the best risk/ROI ratios in the investment world. I have two general strategies which work in almost every real estate market and almost independently on the current market conditions. The strategies are simple and not secret and they are quite involved. This is what makes them so good - no matter how many people know them, very few are those who use them well, so there is plenty place for you if you wish to try.

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If you wonder what kind of investments work well for you and suit your character the following quiz should clarify the doubts you have. You may have some fun with the quiz but take the results seriously - many people take wrong investment decisions (as shown in the poll results as well) because they don’t follow the investment style which is most appropriate for them.

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Your main target as an investor is to make your money work for you, rather than you working for money. Most of us usually think about owning assets which can bring entirely passive income for years. And that’s fine.

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But buying ready asset which brings passive income is not always the best option for you. Here are some reasons for that:

• Such assets have high price. Said in another way, it means the assets which can be bought easily rare bring good yields. The easiest thing you can do is to have a bank deposit, but it will bring you just 3%-4% per year.

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Would you mind owning 50% in a billion dollar company?

“Then you need at least a half billion”.

No.

Most private investors don’t buy 50% of a billion dollar companies but many of them own such.

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The early bird gets the worm

The key to successful venture investing is to enter it as early as possible. For sure startup investing has made many people millionaires - for example Guy Kawasaki.

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As promised in the article The Basics of Domain investing I am going ahead with this topic. It created some buzz which makes me think a lot of people are interested in non-conventional investing. (Which is great, because this is what I like to do and write about most).

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“The Basics” only covered how basically the domainers play the domain names game. Now it’s time to go into more details how you can do like them.

So if you find good domains or sites (how? in another article of course)

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You can recognize the regular, ordinary, mediocre investors in a minute. They make money when the economy grows. They sell their shirts when the recession starts.

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Wanna be one of them?

I bet no. You beg to differ too. How to be a different, successful investor no matter on the current economical situation?

1. Buy at low times. I’ll keep saying this again and again. When everyone sells, you should buy. When the prices are falling, you should buy.

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When was the last time when you lost money while investing?

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My first time was when I was sixteen. I invested in a “business” of selling post cards to tourist in a Summer resort. My investment wasn’t big as I had only to buy 10 pieces of each card, so it made something like 500 post cards. The business didn’t work out however so I had to close the “shop” (a table on the street) and go back home. I had about 200 cards left and I had the choice to either keep staying there day after day trying to sell them, or sell them discounted to my competition on the next street. I’ve chosen the latter. I lost money and learned that sometimes it’s better to sell out my positions at loss rather than to keep them and hope for the best. I had better things to do.

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“I can’t invest in real estate because I am not rich.”

If that’s what you’re saying, you have a problem. And it’s not that you are not rich. The problem is that you think you must be rich to invest in real estate.

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The Myth About Real Estate Investing

It’s true that most real estate (RE) investors are big players who buy big properties or lands where to build commercial or residential property.

It’s true also that there are many small RE investors who manage to make profits even if their net worth is much less than the price of a single of their investment.

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In the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 a stock market crash all over the world ate up to 25% investment capital.

Lucky you, if you didn’t have stocks or mutual funds at that time. There was similar crash in September 2001. There will be similar crashes in the future. Stocks And Mutual Funds Work Better In Bullish Market Some stock traders do well with short trading, but the truth is in most cases it’s all about good times for the markets. In the last few years many stock traders and mutual funds in East Europe achieved outrageous returns of 100% of more per year.

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