Chasing a stock is a common mistake you need to be aware of, or your portfolio will take a beaten. This is when a stock had some good news come out and you missed the information when it was first released. In other words, the stock price made some good gains and you didn’t take advantage of the situation. I’ve seen stocks jump in value by over 30% and watch other traders try to guess at if the price would come back down temporarily so they could jump in. As the price goes up, they try to stay near the low end of the trading range, hoping for the pull-back. When the pull-back does come, it comes in the from of profit-taking from other trader and investors that got in on the initial news.

This can also take place over a period of a couple of days where the stock price jumps as much as 100% or better, only to have it come back down to levels of the original price before the move up.

Just because the stock price has moved up in a relative short period, doesn’t mean you should jump in for a quick gain. The traders that do that are very experienced in investing and this practice should be left for them to do. Any stock that you are planning to get into should be one that you’ve researched. You should be very familiar with it’s balance sheets, as well as other financial information in regards to the company. If not, take some time to check out a stock market site for information. You can never do enough research.

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The best way to do that of course is to start as soon as you can. Many people who are within ten to fifteen years away from retirement are trying to catch up to make sure that they have the money needed for their retirement years. Why is that? It’s because twenty years ago pension were becoming a thing of the past and the 401K plans were starting to make a name for themselves as the way to prepare for retirement. Unfortunately many people didn’t think that taking a portion of their money to put in a fund and not being able to touch until they were 59-1/2 years old made any sense. A bunch of twenty-something year old adults had what they thought were better ideas.

Looking back, they now realize that it was a big mistake not to take charge of their future and are now trying to put the maximum amount allowable by law in their 401K plans to prepare for what’s to come. Many even started to invest on their own, with money that they put in a discretionary account to increase their income by doing what is referred to as day-trading.

I was one of the many that didn’t think about retirement until I was in my thirties.

When I finally started to put money in a 401K plan, the stock market wasn’t doing so good. The dot-com era was just imploding and many investors were taking a big hit to their portfolio. Of course the stock market recovered, but the damage was done. Many of the day-traders never even bothered to come back after the devastating blow that was dealt to them.

Almost ten years later we face the same damage to the stock market that happened before (and most likely will happen again at some point in time). I’m sure that your retirement account has taken a beaten and you’re wondering if you should continue to invest in the stock market. I feel that these corrections to the stock market will happen every so many years and you need to be prepared to see the warning signs of the impending doom that will come. The only way that you can be prepared for the future is to start working on it now, in the present.

This site is designed to help and guide you in making your future more secure and if you play your cards right you may even be able to start retirement a couple of years earlier. We’ll openly share what worked, and didn’t work for us and we’ll review and recommend various programs and books that might be helpful to you.

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