How To Build A Fortune In The Stock Market 5 Questions Every Investor Needs To Ask Of Their Investment Strategy
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How to Build Wealth in the Stock Market: 5 Essential Questions for Your Investment Strategy
Overview
To craft a successful investment strategy, ensure you address these five key questions:
1. What specific stocks should I invest in?
2. When is the best time to buy these stocks?
3. How should I purchase these stocks?
4. When should I sell these stocks?
5. How should I sell these stocks?
The answers to questions 2-5 must vary based on the different components of your stock portfolio. Uniformity in these answers could indicate a uniform risk profile, which is generally undesirable.
The Key to Successful Investment
Many people attempt to replicate the portfolios of successful investors but fail to achieve similar success. This is because they only grasp part of the equation: deciding what to buy. Even if I revealed my portfolio to thousands of novice investors, they might struggle to replicate my future returns. It's entirely possible they'd even incur losses on the same stocks that bring me substantial gains.
Why does this happen?
Because understanding a comprehensive investment strategy, not just choosing what to buy, dictates portfolio success.
Why Investment Firms Often Fall Short
The way investment professional titles have evolved?"from broker to financial consultant to advisor?"is ironic. The original term "broker" more accurately describes most employees in the industry. They essentially manage the money you entrust to them, acting as middlemen between you and the money managers their firm hires. Thus, the returns on a retail investor's portfolio often don't vary much, regardless of the consultant within the same firm handling it.
I recall from my time working as a broker on Wall Street a particularly successful financial consultant who only bought Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) for his clients. His rationale was:
1. Mutual fund expenses are too high (true).
2. ETF expenses are low (true).
3. Most money managers don’t outperform major indexes (true).
4. Therefore, ETFs are the best investment option for his clients (false).
Globally, investment firms train brokers in sales rather than in superior stock selection. Concluding that an all-ETF strategy was best for his clients was flawed reasoning, rooted in sales strategies rather than investment knowledge. Amusingly, stories circulated that this consultant outperformed many others at the firm with his ETF strategy?"highlighting how little the average investor knew about wealth building.
Conclusion
Retail investors should use these five questions to evaluate their investment strategies. A robust strategy will address all five, whereas a flawed one will likely overlook some. Such inadequacies typically translate into weak returns. To demonstrate this, consider two portfolios: one composed primarily of ETFs, the other of mutual funds.
- Specific Stock Selection: Neither an ETF-centric nor a mutual fund-centric strategy can adequately answer which stocks to buy?"meaning the remaining questions are moot for evaluating their wealth-building potential.
- For a portfolio built around individual Chinese stocks, it passes the first question. Then, by examining when and how stocks were bought, and when and how they'll be sold, one can assess the strategy's strength. However, if there’s little variance in the answers for these questions in markets like these, it may reveal strategic weaknesses.
This simple framework offers a quick check on the robustness of your current investment strategy.
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