The Ultimate Investor
What do we really mean when we say a person has become an ultimate investor? A mentor investor of mind explained to me the other day that to become an ultimate investor, a person must first learn how to invest in the stock market as it is the most easy and understand by most man in the street because it involve studying the fundamental of companies that listed in the stock exchange.
Below are some recommended checklists on doing homework on the fundamental of a company-
What is the business of that company?
How much does the company sell and earn?
How fast is the company growing?
How profitable is the company?
How the company financial health? here we study the debt/equity ratio shows how much a firm has borrowed long-term as a percentage of its stock equity. The lower, the better.
How has the stock
How has the stock perform in the past 12 months?
Where is the stock’s support and resistance?
What’s the best guess for the stock price in 1-2 years?
What’s the current multiple (P/E) if it were valued against its peers and industry?
Average number of analysts covering on the company
If we are able to master the above process and eventually become a more skillful investor, then we can proceed to look at other investment vehicles such as commodities and future trading as these instruments require lots of micro research to become successful.
The next level is that once we master commodities and future trading is to extend to the trading of
foreign currencies.
What we mean is that in order to become successful in foreign currencies trader , a person must be able to understand mar-co economic issues of many countries , one such example is that the currency movement is affected by the balance of payment (BOP) of a country. One reason why so many for-ex traders are not successful in their trading is that they over relied on technical charts and indicators without consider the mar co effect of world and economic news.
When a person finally manage to master both mar-co of trading stocks ,commodities and mar-co trading of for ex, then he will able to appreciate what real estate investment is all about and the mechanism of a operating a successful business or perhaps with these skills, he or she may even become a business owner. That the true meaning of a ultimate investor.
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