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All Great Investors Know These Two Things

By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW • February 28, 2017

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If there's one thing new investors aren't short on, it's advice. There are so many "investing adages," "Wall Street adages," and other golden nuggets meant to guide investors, it's overwhelming.

There's some truth to all of them, and they all have their place for investors who might find themselves facing a difficult situation.

But here's the thing - none of them really help investors make the most important investing call: the decision to get started. It turns out investors often find that figuring out the market isn't nearly as important as being in the market in the first place.

Fortunately, whether you're an absolute, rank beginner or someone who's been sitting this bull market out on the sidelines, I've got some help for you.

Here it is...

"You've Got to Be In It to Win It"

Sounds easy, right? That's because it is.

In fact, I'll prove it to you right now, and you'll not only have the confidence to start investing, you'll wonder why no one ever told you this before.

In order to be totally comfortable investing - and I mean absolutely completely at ease with it - you only have to know two things. Everything else you'll learn along the way to becoming super successful.

The most important thing you need to know is that every investment starts with a "trade."

All that means is that no matter how much or how little research you do, or if you're taking a position on something - anything - based on something you read, or heard, or "feel," it's always the same.

Always.

You have to make the move. You have to buy the stock, the ETF, whatever it is you're trading. You have to open a position.

Putting that position on is a "trade."

You aren't investing in that position. You might end up with a fabulous investment, but you might not.

By looking at any position you open as a "trade" and not an "investment," you know you're not "married" to it.

If you love it because it goes your way, go ahead and marry it. But if it goes against you, you simply get a no-fault divorce and dump the position. No entanglements, no tears, just maybe a small loss.

And you move on, a lot wiser, and hopefully not too much poorer, for making the mistake.

Every time you initiate a trade - every time - there are only two outcomes that you face: Either the trade goes your way or it doesn't.

If it doesn't work out, take a small, manageable loss, say 5% or 10% of the capital you put into the position, and get out of the trade - but don't let the fact that you cleverly escaped with a tiny loss go to your head.

I always think like a trader when I put on a new position.

I know I could be right, but there's always a chance the market or the stock does something I don't expect, and the position goes against me.

At least I'm in the game.

You can't be afraid to lose a few bucks. It's part of the game. You can't win a race if you don't run it. You don't start off running. You start off taking a first step. You start off with one trade and - BAM - you're in it.

That puts you halfway there...

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Shah Gilani boasts a financial pedigree unlike any other. He ran his first hedge fund in 1982 from his seat on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. When options on the Standard & Poor's 100 began trading on March 11, 1983, Shah worked in "the pit" as a market maker.

The work he did laid the foundation for what would later become the VIX - to this day one of the most widely used indicators worldwide. After leaving Chicago to run the futures and options division of the British banking giant Lloyd's TSB, Shah moved up to Roosevelt & Cross Inc., an old-line New York boutique firm. There he originated and ran a packaged fixed-income trading desk, and established that company's "listed" and OTC trading desks.

Shah founded a second hedge fund in 1999, which he ran until 2003.

Shah's vast network of contacts includes the biggest players on Wall Street and in international finance. These contacts give him the real story - when others only get what the investment banks want them to see.

Today, as editor of Hyperdrive Portfolio, Shah presents his legion of subscribers with massive profit opportunities that result from paradigm shifts in the way we work, play, and live.

Shah is a frequent guest on CNBC, Forbes, and MarketWatch, and you can catch him every week on Fox Business's Varney & Co.

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Greta Chikutumazi
Greta Chikutumazi
6 years ago

Thank Shah Gilan for your useful information. Am a beginner in this investment portfolio and still learning more. hoping to learn more before I start investing.
Best regards

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6 years ago

An interesting discussion is worth comment.
There's no doubt that that you should write more on this subject matter, it
may not be a taboo matter but typically people do not speak about such topics.
To the next! Best wishes!!

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busty
6 years ago

It's actually very difficult in this full of activity life to
listen news on Television, thus I simply use internet for that purpose, and obtain the latest news.

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Shawnee
Shawnee
6 years ago

I like the helpful info you provide in your articles.
I'll bookmark your blog and check again here regularly.

I'm quite sure I will learn many new stuff right here! Best of luck for the next!

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