1. Investing Money Wisely Means Never Owning Something You Don't Understand
If there is one rule that could save tremendous amounts of financial heartache it would be this: Do not buy or hold anything you can't explain to a kindergartener in three sentences or less: How it makes its money, what its potential pitfalls are, and how that money finds its way into your hands. This sounds so simple - and it is - but few people seem to follow it.
The moment a bull market starts raging somewhere, otherwise perfectly reasonable people who have enough common sense not to walk out into the rain without an umbrella suddenly get it in their heads they should be buying collateralized debt obligations, even though they couldn't tell you what they are, or giving up their safe cash deposits and swapping them for auction rate securities, even though they can't explain how they work.
Do you know the difference between a share of stock and a master limited partnership unit? No? Then don't buy MLPs through your broker. They look like stocks, trade like stocks, but are most definitely not stocks. You can be in for an unpleasant tax surprise if you start collecting them without knowing what you're doing. Do you know how preferred stock differs from common stock and corporate bonds? No? Then don't buy them. The same goes for everything from convertible shares to REITs. There's plenty of time to learn about these securities and you can always buy them tomorrow. Jumping in before you are ready, well-informed, and aware of the dangers is like a non-swimmer deciding his first foray into the pool should be from the the high dive board of an Olympic facility. It's probably not going to end well and if it does, it's luck, not skill.
1. ลงทุนเงินอย่างชาญฉลาดหมายความว่า ไม่เคยเป็นเจ้าของสิ่งที่คุณไม่เข้าใจถ้ามีกฎหนึ่งที่สามารถบันทึกจำนวนเงิน heartache มันจะมหาศาลนี้: ซื้อ หรือเก็บสิ่งที่คุณไม่สามารถอธิบายการ kindergartener ในประโยคที่สาม หรือน้อยกว่า: วิธีทำเงินของ ข้อผิดพลาดอาจเกิดขึ้นคืออะไร และวิธีเงินค้นหาทางเข้าไปในมือของคุณ นี้เสียงดังง่าย - เป็น - แต่บางคนดูเหมือนจะ ตามมาขณะนี้ตลาดวัวเริ่มโกรธอยู่ ผู้อื่นอย่างเหมาะสมมีสามัญสำนึกพอไม่ให้เดินออกไปฝนไม่มีร่มก็ได้รับมันในหัวของพวกเขาพวกเขาควรซื้อหนี้ collateralized ผูกพัน แม้ว่าพวกเขาไม่สามารถบอกคุณคืออะไร หรือให้ค่าของเงินฝากเงินสดปลอดภัย และเปลี่ยนพวกเขาประมูลหลักทรัพย์อัตรา แม้ว่าพวกเขาไม่สามารถอธิบายวิธีการทำงานDo you know the difference between a share of stock and a master limited partnership unit? No? Then don't buy MLPs through your broker. They look like stocks, trade like stocks, but are most definitely not stocks. You can be in for an unpleasant tax surprise if you start collecting them without knowing what you're doing. Do you know how preferred stock differs from common stock and corporate bonds? No? Then don't buy them. The same goes for everything from convertible shares to REITs. There's plenty of time to learn about these securities and you can always buy them tomorrow. Jumping in before you are ready, well-informed, and aware of the dangers is like a non-swimmer deciding his first foray into the pool should be from the the high dive board of an Olympic facility. It's probably not going to end well and if it does, it's luck, not skill.
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