Investment decisions should be made within a clearly defined Investment Plan. Investing is a goal-orientated activity that should include considerations of time, risk-tolerance, and future income… think about where you are going before you start moving in what may be the wrong direction. A well thought out plan will not need frequent adjustments. A well-managed plan will not be susceptible to the addition of trendy, speculations.

The distinction between Asset Allocation and Diversification is often clouded. Asset Allocation is the planned division of the portfolio between Equity and Income securities. Diversification is a risk minimization strategy used to assure that the size of individual portfolio positions does not become excessive in terms of various measurements. Neither are “hedges” against anything or Market Timing devices. Neither can be done with Mutual Funds or within a single Mutual Fund. Both are handled most easily using Cost Basis analysis as defined in the Working Capital Model.

Investors become bored with their Plan too quickly, change direction too frequently, and make drastic rather than gradual adjustments. Although investing is always referred to as “long term”, it is rarely dealt with as such by investors who would be hard pressed to explain simple peak-to-peak analysis. Short-term Market Value movements are routinely compared with various un-portfolio related indices and averages to evaluate performance. There is no index that compares with your portfolio, and calendar divisions have no relationship whatever to market or interest rate cycles.

Investors tend to fall in love with securities that rise in price and forget to take profits, particularly when the company was once their employer. It’s alarming how often accounting and other professionals refuse to fix these single-issue portfolios. Aside from the love issue, this becomes an unwilling-to-pay-the-taxes problem that often brings the unrealized gain to the Schedule D as a realized loss. Diversification rules, like Mother Nature, must not be messed with.

Investors often overdose on information, causing a constant state of “analysis paralysis”. Such investors are likely to be confused and tend to become hindsightful and indecisive. Neither portends well for the portfolio. Compounding this issue is the inability to distinguish between research and sales materials… quite often the same document. A somewhat narrow focus on information that supports a logical and well-documented investment strategy will be more productive in the long run. But do avoid future predictors.

Investors are constantly in search of a short cut or gimmick that will provide instant success with minimum effort. Consequently, they initiate a feeding frenzy for every new, product and service that the Institutions produce. Their portfolios become a hodgepodge of Mutual Funds, iShares, Index Funds, Partnerships, Penny Stocks, Hedge Funds, Funds of Funds, Commodities, Options, etc. This obsession with Product underlines how Wall Street has made it impossible for financial professionals to survive without them. Remember: Consumers buy products; Investors select securities.

Investors just don’t understand the nature of Interest Rate Sensitive Securities and can’t deal appropriately with changes in Market Value… in either direction. Operationally, the income portion of a portfolio must be looked at separately from the growth portion. A simple assessment of bottom line Market Value for structural and/or directional decision-making is one of the most far-reaching errors that investors make. Fixed Income must not connote Fixed Value and most investors rarely experience the full benefit of this portion of their portfolio.

Many investors either ignore or discount the cyclical nature of the investment markets and wind up buying the most popular securities/sectors/funds at their highest ever prices. Illogically, they interpret a current trend in such areas as a new dynamic and tend to overdo their involvement. At the same time, they quickly abandon whatever their previous hot spot happened to be, not realizing that they are creating a Buy High, Sell Low cycle all their own.

Many investment errors will involve some form of unrealistic time horizon, or Apples to Oranges form of performance comparison. Somehow, somewhere, the get rich slowly path to investment success has become overgrown and abandoned. Successful portfolio development is rarely a straight up arrow and comparisons with dissimilar products, commodities, or strategies simply produce detours that speed progress away from original portfolio goals.

The “cheaper is better” mentality weakens decision making capabilities and leads investors to dangerous assumptions and short cuts that only appear to be effective. Do discount brokers seek “best execution”? Can new issue preferred stocks be purchased without cost? Is a no load fund a freebie? Is a WRAP Account individually managed? When cheap is an investor’s primary concern, what he gets will generally be worth the price.

Compounding the problems that investors have managing their investment portfolios is the sideshowesque sensationalism that the media brings to the process. Investing has become a competitive event for service providers and investors alike. This development alone will lead many of you to the self-destructive decision making errors that are described above. Investing is a personal project where individual/family goals and objectives must dictate portfolio structure, management strategy, and performance evaluation techniques. Is it difficult to manage a portfolio in an environment that encourages instant gratification, supports all forms of “uncaveated” speculation, and that rewards short term and shortsighted reports, reactions, and achievements?

Yup, it sure is.

Investment decisions should be made within a clearly defined Investment Plan. Investing is a goal-orientated activity that should include considerations of time, risk-tolerance, and future income… think about where you are going before you start moving in what may be the wrong direction. A well thought out plan will not need frequent adjustments. A well-managed plan will not be susceptible to the addition of trendy, speculations.

The distinction between Asset Allocation and Diversification is often clouded. Asset Allocation is the planned division of the portfolio between Equity and Income securities. Diversification is a risk minimization strategy used to assure that the size of individual portfolio positions does not become excessive in terms of various measurements. Neither are “hedges” against anything or Market Timing devices. Neither can be done with Mutual Funds or within a single Mutual Fund. Both are handled most easily using Cost Basis analysis as defined in the Working Capital Model.

Investors become bored with their Plan too quickly, change direction too frequently, and make drastic rather than gradual adjustments. Although investing is always referred to as “long term”, it is rarely dealt with as such by investors who would be hard pressed to explain simple peak-to-peak analysis. Short-term Market Value movements are routinely compared with various un-portfolio related indices and averages to evaluate performance. There is no index that compares with your portfolio, and calendar divisions have no relationship whatever to market or interest rate cycles.

Investors tend to fall in love with securities that rise in price and forget to take profits, particularly when the company was once their employer. It’s alarming how often accounting and other professionals refuse to fix these single-issue portfolios. Aside from the love issue, this becomes an unwilling-to-pay-the-taxes problem that often brings the unrealized gain to the Schedule D as a realized loss. Diversification rules, like Mother Nature, must not be messed with.

Investors often overdose on information, causing a constant state of “analysis paralysis”. Such investors are likely to be confused and tend to become hindsightful and indecisive. Neither portends well for the portfolio. Compounding this issue is the inability to distinguish between research and sales materials… quite often the same document. A somewhat narrow focus on information that supports a logical and well-documented investment strategy will be more productive in the long run. But do avoid future predictors.

Investors are constantly in search of a short cut or gimmick that will provide instant success with minimum effort. Consequently, they initiate a feeding frenzy for every new, product and service that the Institutions produce. Their portfolios become a hodgepodge of Mutual Funds, iShares, Index Funds, Partnerships, Penny Stocks, Hedge Funds, Funds of Funds, Commodities, Options, etc. This obsession with Product underlines how Wall Street has made it impossible for financial professionals to survive without them. Remember: Consumers buy products; Investors select securities.

Investors just don’t understand the nature of Interest Rate Sensitive Securities and can’t deal appropriately with changes in Market Value… in either direction. Operationally, the income portion of a portfolio must be looked at separately from the growth portion. A simple assessment of bottom line Market Value for structural and/or directional decision-making is one of the most far-reaching errors that investors make. Fixed Income must not connote Fixed Value and most investors rarely experience the full benefit of this portion of their portfolio.

Many investors either ignore or discount the cyclical nature of the investment markets and wind up buying the most popular securities/sectors/funds at their highest ever prices. Illogically, they interpret a current trend in such areas as a new dynamic and tend to overdo their involvement. At the same time, they quickly abandon whatever their previous hot spot happened to be, not realizing that they are creating a Buy High, Sell Low cycle all their own.

Many investment errors will involve some form of unrealistic time horizon, or Apples to Oranges form of performance comparison. Somehow, somewhere, the get rich slowly path to investment success has become overgrown and abandoned. Successful portfolio development is rarely a straight up arrow and comparisons with dissimilar products, commodities, or strategies simply produce detours that speed progress away from original portfolio goals.

The “cheaper is better” mentality weakens decision making capabilities and leads investors to dangerous assumptions and short cuts that only appear to be effective. Do discount brokers seek “best execution”? Can new issue preferred stocks be purchased without cost? Is a no load fund a freebie? Is a WRAP Account individually managed? When cheap is an investor’s primary concern, what he gets will generally be worth the price.

Compounding the problems that investors have managing their investment portfolios is the sideshowesque sensationalism that the media brings to the process. Investing has become a competitive event for service providers and investors alike. This development alone will lead many of you to the self-destructive decision making errors that are described above. Investing is a personal project where individual/family goals and objectives must dictate portfolio structure, management strategy, and performance evaluation techniques. Is it difficult to manage a portfolio in an environment that encourages instant gratification, supports all forms of “uncaveated” speculation, and that rewards short term and shortsighted reports, reactions, and achievements?

Yup, it sure is.

The ingredients of success in a stock market are very basic namely surplus money, risk appetite, intuitive skills, rational approach and a flexible strategy.

Anyone can earn money if he can predict the trend and take a position accordingly. However, the art of trading or investing may not come naturally to one. We need to practice in order to develop the art. We need to be chivalrous, understand the market makers psychology and out-smart him.

Asset Allocation: implies balancing your exposure in various asset classes of Equity and Derivatives. One may invest 80% of their portfolio’s worth in Equity and the remaining 20% in Options (Derivatives). As the risk appetite increases and the understanding of market dynamics unfolds, the % of asset allocation may be tilted but not beyond 60% equity and 40 % Derivatives.

To elaborate more on the Strategic part of investments I shall quote an example.

Nifty50 is composed of stocks of top 50 most reliable and consistent Blue chip companies of India. Nifty50 is a diversified index and thus has companies from different sectors like FMCG, Oil & Gas, Metal, Realty, Bank etc. The fluctuations in the index may be because of Market news, Sector specific news, Stock Specific news. One sector may go up leading the Nifty50 index higher whereas some other sector may pull the index down. Herein you may have the following kinds of trading strategies.

The profits earned should be reinvested suitably to maintain the asset allocation ratio. Always remember that ‘Discipline’ is synonymous to success in the Stock Market. For any queries please email to Abhinav5884@yahoo.co.in

The above article is a brief for people who understand the terminologies of stock market.

Keeping Greed out of Your Investing

We all have our own investment strategies, I’m not here to tell you what works best and what sucks wind, but one thing I do know, if your investing strategy involves greed you will probably ‘lose’ more often than you ‘win’. It’s certainly not always an easy thing, to keep greed out of your investments, especially when you’re in a stock that’s on a nice uphill ride. Any prudent investment approach should contain some form of an exit strategy, simply put how you plan on getting out of (selling) the stock you hold. This would be one way to avoid greed, have a set price at which you intend on selling the stock, walk away with the money in your pocket and move on to the next investment. Not always as easy as it sounds though is it? Prior to buying into a stock you should have some sort of idea at what price you would like to sell it, hopefully you don’t have to hold it for 10 years in order for it to reach that price. Sometimes you buy into it and if you timed it just right, you start to see the price go up sooner rather than later. When you start counting the dollars you are making seems to be when the exit strategy flies out the window and greed comes creeping in. I mean, gee, who knew when you bought it that the stock was going to rise so high, so fast, why sell now when you could make so much more money? It would be downright silly to get out now when you could clearly make much more cash if you held on to it. Somewhere deep within your being, there should be something rejecting this argument, and reminding you of your exit strategy and how you’ve gone past the price you told yourself you were going to be out of that stock and onto the next one.

Take your profits when you can

Discipline is a big factor when investing in the stock market. By employing some self-discipline you can keep your head about your initial investment strategy and keep greed from banging down the door. If the stock you invested in has made a nice move, and you have made the money you hoped to make off of it, then get out of it while the getting is good. If it seems as though the price is going to continue to increase, then why not take out your original investment plus a small profit (if possible) and leave the rest. At least you wouldn’t be losing any money by taking your profits when they are presented to you. You could have the best of both worlds if you chose to employ this strategy, you made your money (or at least didn’t lose any) and if the stock goes to the moon you’ll be laughing all the way to the bank, or at least to your next investment. The other option, let greed take the wheel, you could make way more money if you don’t take any profits and let the whole thing ride up the hill. Sure, you could stand to make a lot more off of your investments and I’m sure many people do, but the problem with this approach, where is the top? And when it reaches the top is it going to stay there for a while or come crashing down at record speed? What if it reaches this peak while you’re on vacation, or sick and can’t get to your computer to make the all important trade? It’s amazing how fast all those profits can disappear and you are no further ahead then when you first invested in the stock.

The main point to all this? Greed has a home and a mother, just like the ugly duckling, just perhaps not in stock market investing. Obviously, investment strategies vary from person to person, and if you find one that works, and greed is a big factor, well, kudos to you, personally, I’ve never gained off my greediness, it’s always hurt me more than helped me. Anyways, now back to my point. No one can predict with 100% certainty (no one I’ve ever heard of anyways) what is going to happen with a particular stock or the stock market in general. If you are able to keep your head about your investments and keep greed out, you could stand to make some tidy profits so that you can keep investing, employing your investment strategy and hopefully making some decent money at the whole thing.

*Any information contained in this article should not be construed as investment advice, simply the thoughts and opinions of the author.*

While timing everything right seems impossible, there are better ways to manage one’s portfolio. Essentially, getting it right at the start is important. One will worry less if one’s portfolio is structured right to start off with, that is, maintain an asset allocation strategy based on one’s personal risk profile at the very first place. With asset allocation, diversify one’s portfolio is the key, in order to reduce over dependence of a specific asset class, that is.Diversify

One such method is to consider various instruments that have low correlation to one another. For example, while directly investing in individual stocks has good direct exposure, consider investing in unit trusts or ETFs, where typically the funds will be invested in a basket of stocks instead of one individual stock. In principal, stocks tend to be a lot more volatile than equity unit trusts for the reason that funds tend to be more diversified because they are invested in multiple stocks.

Other low correlation asset classes include bonds, commodities (gold, metals) and real estate properties. Gold is a perfect case in point, where prices have escalated by around 50% from 2007 to-date due to sky rocketing crude oil prices and perception of safe-heaven characteristic.Adopt Mid to Long Term Horizon

The longer the time horizon is, the more volatility one can tolerate as one has more time to recover from short term volatility. Putting a mid to long term strategy in place will certainly allow an investor to take into consideration factors that will affect one’s portfolio, such as market cycles, political stability and economic swings.Stay Objective

While i agree that investing in general should be taken with a long term perspective, it is not a hard and fast rule as it is also important to stay objective and be alert to potential major changes in business or economic environment from both local and global perspective. For example, while investing in China equity at one point (prior to 2007) may be a great idea tapping into the explosive growth of Chinese companies, an investor should consider unloading some or all of the funds invested to else where when Chinese stocks were trading at lofty and unrealistic valuations. Another example is when subprime issues first surfaced, it is wise to find out from the brokers or agents immediately where their property trust funds were invested. It is wise to liquidate such investments when the stakes are high!Invest Regularly

Invest regularly is also a good way to manage periodic market volatility. For many this could be in the form of monthly investment, directly from their monthly income or retirement fund savings. In essence one will continue to invest a particular sum of money regardless of whether the market rises or falls. This method is also commonly termed as Dollar Cost Averaging.

One may choose to invest more regularly during the bull market and less regularly during the bear market. However, again there is really no hard and fast rule, it all depends on each individual’s risk profile and preference.

Stockholder who invest in at some point in the first of the superficial produce take a turn for the better are at present make afraid or criticize themselves. Not at all movement beneficial an shareholder or seller estimate direct. Lower are short information in buy and sell with the present advertise reduction of business activity.

6. Previously gathering the trade activate, ask manually: Do I absolutely like to give up these shares to a agreement bottom huntsman, who will present a carnage on my misfortune?

A)        How a lot of currency does the enterprise have in the bank? During shakeouts, cash is sovereign. Perceptive association, which accomplished their loan during the fresh and robust assembly, is sitting cheerful. They can atmospheric conditions the temporary strong weather and are well-oiled to progress forwards when the present repair base and reverses. Those association are the healthy ones to test prohibited when the present adjustment visual examination dark.

B)        Has the control stay the similar? Except the first pecuniary and/or mechanical citizens flow out the gate, in fresh weeks, the story as likely as not hasn’t misused great. Corporation which built a bright mechanical company are tough and capable. They will progress forwards.

C)        Have the real estate occurs up dry? Single of the mental analysis you spent in a uranium association was as it declare arrival it had pounds in the ground’s certain corporation have extra than others. Various went to the cost and difficulty of carry out action a National Instrument 43-101, which severally fixed the figure and element of the uranium package. If that tainted ? and the enterprise predict, sorry, nothing there like all or declare arrival, they, we were joking that’s single matter. If you haven’t see that, or view a news relief announcing that, then the uranium didn’t go away or progress onto a competitor’s land. Its still near.

After that period, when the markets are speed in competition upper, and you believe according to you won the lottery, allow for this fragment of biblical recommendation. The old joke goes, when Noah made his ark the reply of lessons is: Previously it began to drizzle.

If you want to make money from stocks, you must draw a carefully considered plan. You have to create a stable, long-time, profitable investment strategy. Your broker may have provided you with certain investment tools and facilities, which may include low commissions, automatic investment plans, low cost real time trades, various research tools and easy account management. You can make use of these tools and plans to devise your strategy.

You have to develop your strategy on the basis of your objectives. First of all, you should decide your objectives for investing in stocks. Do you want to invest in stocks to create an additional source of income? Do you want to make it a full-fledged source of income? How much do you want to earn per month? Are you a long term or a short-term investor? Above all, what is your budget and how often can you comfortably invest? If you were a salaried person earning, say, $3, 000 per month, it would not be a good idea to invest $ 500 per week. Just decide upon an amount that you can afford easily without having to stretch your resources too far.

Diversify your stock investment

‘Never put your eggs in one basket’ is a time-tested adage. Stock market offers numerous options. Therefore you should follow the concept of diversification in stock market also. Diversification in this context means spending your investment across different sectors and funds. If one sector shows poor performance, your entire investment will not be affected adversely. The risk exposure to a particular investment would be reduced and over all risk to your portfolio will be considerably minimized. To explain it, let us say you have invested $1,000 in one stock and the prices of your stock fall, you will be losing a substantial part of your investment. If, however, your investment is distributed over a number of stocks, you may gain in some other stocks. Thus your losses will be neutralized to some extent.

Invest in ETFs

The best and the most popular options are the low-cost index tracking exchange-traded funds-ETFs. The ETFs are, in fact, securities that track an index or follow the performance of a group of stocks. They trade like regular stocks. The only and the important difference is that you have to pay minimal expenses for trading. It is, therefore, convenient and cheap to buy and sell the ETFs. Since they follow indexes like the NASDAQ 100 or the Standard and Poor 500 to track a bunch of different stocks, they are automatically diversified. The great benefit of buying ETFs is that you can actually buy hundreds of different stocks with every dollar you invest. You have to pay your broker only a low cost investment plan fee that ranges from $1 a trade to $3 a trade.

Fractional Shares

If you think you cannot buy high priced stocks because you are intimidated by their high prices, you may consult your broker. You may be offered a plan in which you can buy fractional shares. In fractional share investing, you need not buy 100 shares or even one share. You can buy just a fraction of a share. Therefore you can invest absolutely any dollar amount with no minimums and buy any quantity of a stock or ETF. You can buy a thousand shares or one-tenth of a share through automatic investment plans.

You can buy expensive stocks with small investments. Let us suppose, a stock is trading at $200 and you can afford to invest only $50 per week. If you use the automatic investment plan offered by your broker, you can buy any fraction of a share at a cost as low as $1 per trade. In this way you can invest in stocks of over 500 companies with only a few dollars by buying fractional shares of an ETF or any stock for that matter. This is really a revolutionary concept in stock trading.

 

The answer is simple

 

Humans are terrified of anything that they don’t know or understand. In the immortal words of Garth from Wayne’s World “We fear change”.

 

So am I saying ‘Investing is not risky?’ Not at all, in fact if you don’t understand it or aren’t properly educated Investing is incredibly dangerous and risky. But the same can be said about almost every daily activity that we undertake. Whether it be swimming, crossing the road, riding a bike, driving a car or even eating a chicken wing – all of these activities would be highly dangerous if we hadn’t been taught or shown how to do them properly. Luckily for us our parents took us to swimming lessons when we were children but unfortunately for us our parents never seemed to take us to Investment school. Instead they taught us what their parents taught them about Money & Investing – and that was “to earn money you need to work hard”

 

Well I’ll tell you now that if you want to become financially successful and a master of wealth creation you will need to step our of your parents shadows and learn that ‘Rich people don’t work for money, they let their money work for them’.

 

I was first introduced to this concept in high school when I read ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ but it wasn’t until a few years later that I truly understood the concept of having your money work for you.

 

When I finished university I decided I wanted to travel the world for 6 months so I began working my backside off to try and finance the trip. Whilst I was confident of my saving ability in the back of my mind I knew that I could always fall back on some money that my granddad had given me in the previous year. As an early inheritance he had invested $7k (plus $3k of my own savings) into some shares that I knew very little about (other than the fact that if my ‘overseas trip fund’ was running low I had a backup plan).

 

To cut a long story short I managed to have the most amazing trip without eating into my Granddads shares. But more importantly when I was overseas I met a fellow Australian traveler who was funding his trip by trading the stock market in internet cafes all over Europe (earning between $5-$15k per month). Needless to say my interest in the Stock market suddenly grew and as soon as I got home I decided to see how my own shares were going.

 

Well to my great surprise the $10,000 that had originally been invested had now grown to $16,000. So whist I had been climbing the Eiffel Tower and watching the Aurora Borealis in Norway my money had been hard at work. What an amazing and life changing feeling!

 

So how can you learn to make your money work for you?

 

Well as I found out this question is harder to answer that you might expect. After learning about my shares success I couldn’t help myself from telling everyone I knew but for some strange reason no one seemed to share my enthusiasm. All everyone could say was “be careful, the stock market is very risky’ or they would tell me stories about how their ‘nephews, cousins, friend had once lost all their money on the stock exchange’. At this stage my head was starting to hurt and I didn’t know who or what to believe. Just recently I found a great quote by Kurek Ashley that summed up the position that I was in perfectly:

 

“The most expensive advice you will ever get, is free from poor people”

 

If you look at what this quote really means you will be able to understand why the average person believes that investing is too risky. It is simply because your typical ‘poor to middle class’ person is receiving their advice from a fellow ‘poor to middle class’ person. Surely this is a case of the blind leading the blind, or at best the blind leading the severely visually impaired.

 

If your child wanted to be a professional gymnast and you knew nothing about gymnastics what would you do? Obviously you would find the best Coach/School and you would let them teach your child. Well the same principle applies if you want to be financially successful. You need to find Mentors, books, DVD’s, Seminars anything or anyone that knows more about Wealth Creation than you do and gradually build up your knowledge. Then eventually like a professional surfer glides over the waves you can successfully let your money work for you rather than drowning in an ocean of uncertainty and risk. As Warren Buffet once said “Risk is not knowing what you’re doing”

 

So you are now faced with a few options

 

Not invest and spend the rest of your life ‘working for money’Invest your hard earned money before you are educated enough, loose your life savings and in turn become one of those people who tell everyone else that “Don’t invest, it’s too risky, the stock market stole everything I had”Or you can dedicate yourself to learning about Investment strategies and techniques and gradually build up your confidence until you become a successful Investor and let your money work for you.

 

So are there risks with Investing? YES of course there are, but like swimming, crossing the road, riding a bike and driving a car once you educate yourself you lower these risks and in turn get to enjoy the wonderful benefits.

 

Surely NOT investing is the biggest Risk of all.

 

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You might begin by subscribing to a good stock option newsletter that includes the latest tips and strategies for investors who engage in options trading. Such a newsletter will be vital for an investor when deciding the fate of his or her options.

You will find that many brokerage firms offer helpful publications and tips by email to help novice option traders sound advice and strategies. After all, brokerage firms profit when you are successful. There is also a wealth of information regarding options trading readily available in books at your public library and local bookstore. The most successful investors spend endless hours soaking up knowledge on topics regarding stocks and option trading.

In addition to the numerous books available at your local library and bookstore, many websites offer ebooks, newsletters, and publications dedicated to the subject of options trading – the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (www.cboe.com) is a great resource. You may also consider joining an investment club for even more guidance and help. These clubs typically provide members with stock option trading newsletters as well as options trading tips. You may also want to consider networking by joining an affiliation. It is important to arm yourself with as much information as possible if you are considering options trading as an investment strategy.

Options trading should never be viewed as a get rich quick scheme. As with anything else, it requires experience and knowledge to be successful. Therefore, it is advisable to gain as much knowledge as possible before even considering this avenue. Take advantage of electronic updates and newsletters for research and choosing the best options. However, you should keep a balanced perspective when utilizing this advice. Keeping all of these things in mind will definitely increase your chance at profitability with options trading.

Also, it is advisable to keep in mind that you should only invest your expendable finances since there are always risks associated with investing of any kind. You would not want to risk your retirement fund for investing. Be knowledgeable and sensible about your options trading strategies and you will increase your potential profits.