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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Have you heard the term domainer?

While thousands of bloggers and forums pollute the Web with “make money online”, there are people who actually make a lot of it without spreading affiliate checks on blogs. Such people don’t even have blogs. They don’t work online to make money, they invest in the web for profits that most people will never see.

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The domainers own, buy, sell, develop, rent or register hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of domains. Note that I am not saying websites, because pretty often there is nothing on these domains except ads or capture pages.

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