Have $50K, what is the best way fr me to invest it now?

Question

I have $50K, considering the CD rates are very low now, what would be the best way for me to invest this money. I wish I had more so I can open my own business. Any advice?

Answer 1

i would have to say that their are 4 great answers on here and you should probably do a little bit of each, if you are ready to make a commitment and pay attention, otherwise i would just go for the long term conservative trading~!!!

yes diversify, but as with all investing and trading always remember that their is a risk involve of losing it all~!!!

if you are just starting out i would suggest  (sharebuilder.com)

plus i would also look into the other sites listed on here, but with sharebuilder you will be able to test the waters first and get comfortable with the way you want to trade and invest before you start out with the big boys~!!!

knowledge is Gold in this business~!!!

good luck~!!!

Answer 2

Put like $5k-$10k in Forex trading using a trading system and go and enjoy life.

Today alone I made over $800 in profit from one trade and in just minutes. EUR/USD; bought at 1.5596 and sold at 1.5677 - check the charts on DailyFX for proof of the numbers - today is the 25th of June. I could have made even more if I wasn't paranoid and clicked the magic button (it went all the way up to 1.568x).

What you do (and what I did) is make sure the trading system has a 60 day money back guarantee first; then make sure you can use a demo account. A demo account let's you play the trading game with "play money" so you can see if you can profit from the trading system without investing your real cash.

Use the demo account for 59 days and if you see you can make profit you keep the system and invest your real cash. If there's no profit to be made you get a refund and try another system; there's literally no risk when buying one.

If you're interested I found reviews of the top 3 Forex trading systems: http://forex-funnel.the-perfect-solution...

Best of luck.

Answer 3

You have to answer many questions for someone to know what is best for you. Start at the site below to get some general advice in setting objectives, making a plan, developing and understanding your risk tolerance and more.. good luck

Answer 4

If you have knowledge about stock market, invest in fundamentally strong company's shares.

Answer 5

You do not need to know any thing about the stock market. Just invest $10,000 in each of 5  big companies in US paying good dividends, such as banks, property companies, oil companies etc. Then sit back and collect the dividends which will keep increasing every year.  

Do not buy and sell. Just hold the shares and read the chairman's statements in the annual reports sent to you. And if you like meeting rich people, put a nice dress on and go to the their annual general meetings.... You never know your luck...

Answer 6

If you're interested in the stock market, take a look at xearn.com. Hundreds of people are posting how they would invest money and you can see how each one of them is doing.

Answer 7

you can open a buisness but not a fancy one find a place witha cheap rent get a rather small temperary building and hire like 7 or 8 freinds and some family get an add in the phone book and a web site this should get you running for about 10,000 the rest goes towards equipment and stuff bills and pay toward your workers (btw if this answer is what ur looking for pleae make this the best answer i worked hard)

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I guess CD is Canadian Dollars. If you are in canada the best would be to invest in Diamonds.  Visit the website and see if its something you would wanna do. www.cdtforever.com/dtp.       referal dazzler1. Its easy and the returns are good.

Answer 10

john fontane seems to have a handle on investing, even if he threw in a little advertising. i'm a 25 year veteran in the real estate brokerage industry all over the usa. i'm not your norm: i've always told my clients to be diversified, meaning, don't put your eggs all into one basket. trading, the way fontane describes it, is similar. but i mean that you should have a diversified portfolio.

the wealthiest clients i've dealt with on estate planning & investment real estate tax deferred 1031 starker exchanges never put every cent into real estate--it is just part of their total portfolio.  look what happened to so many people since 2000! buy having your own home is a luxury today since the american dream is dead.  if you do buy one, get a freestanding single family house with a yard and garage, and buy as much land as you can! land itself is a great investment...for later.  i buy land. there are only 3 words you need in investing in real estate (& don't think your home is an investment at all, if it keeps pace with inflation, you are lucky)--location, location, location.

if you will invest in commodities, buy gold, but look at historical charts at kitco.com to determine what you will pay for a troy ounce of pure gold. jewelry is a poor investment--take one of your pieces to a pawn shop to see what i mean. or buy silver or rhodium (it coats silver to look like gold and many industries use it). investigate all the precious metals and their trends.

investigate anything you think you should buy and don't buy it because anyone tells you it is "hot." stockbrokers are notorious for this: remember that they get a commission out of any buy or sell, and then if you buy their recommendation, you may sell at a loss.

i wouldn't buy foreign currency unless i was a professional trader with a huge amount of smarts on economics. i would not buy futures in commodities such as corn--there is really a high rate of loss in this.  

someone i know learned how to invest in the stock market this way:  she tracked stocks that she liked every day, making notes on them. then she chose which ones she'd want to purchase. she took the funny money out of a monopoly game, then used it to "buy" and gain or lose from the "sale" of each stock. she kept track of everything. once she got the hang of it, she began to put real dollars into the stock market, but she knew that no one knows why it falls and rises the way it does, and so should you.  

look at what are called "penny stocks" to see their trends, then remember the dot com collapse. also remember that enron didn't post the losses of all the companies that it had invested other people's retirement plans into, therefore, presenting a higher value for the mutual funds, and look how many people lost their future!  

be careful, don't just jump into it, and don't believe any of the advertising anywhere in newspapers or on the net: nobody gives anything away for nothing. do you work for nothing?

Answer 11

I´ve been investing for more than 20 years and trading for almost 14, and I can tell you that if you want to make BIG and FAST profits, I recommend you trading rather than investing, trading can help you to go from rags to rich.

If you are investing, you must have already achieved some degree of financial success, long term stock investing and FOREX can help you become much richer than you are today.

My experiences as a Nasdaq Market Maker, Head trader of several brokerage firms, and currently as a professional trader and private hedge fund manager, I can suggest you that:

We trade because we want quick, short term profits on a consistent basis. We want to cash flow the market. Milk it like a cow.

Make consistent, small, short term gains rather than trying to hit a home run on every trade. Don't ever forget that.

Don't marry a stock, marry the idea of making money trading stocks. That's the only way to do it.

For me "All stocks are equally worthless”

I don't hold on to any illusion that the stock market will continue to go up and provide a nice retirement for me.

I could care less which way the market goes. It's irrelevant to me if the market goes higher, crashes or moves sideways for the next 50 years. I really could care less. Stocks are just four letters with two prices next to them that I use to make a living trading.

Trade ONLY when you have a clear, easy and identifiable advantage, because without a CLEAR EDGE your odds of success are NO better than a flip of a coin… That´s why so many new traders (and investors) lose money.

Take a look at any daily chart of any index or stock and you'll probably see the most volatility and the biggest opportunity for profit during the first Hour of the stock market's opening.

The popular thinking and conventional wisdom is that you should wait about an hour before you start trading.

But if you do, you'll miss the big, fast moves that stocks make as all the amateurs let their emotions out through their

online accounts, usually right after they read some news headline or hear Maria Bartiromo go off about a stock on CNBC.

It's easy to see why trading the open is the market's prime time for profiting from other online traders.

The market's open is very volatile - that is the perfect environment for LARGE, FAST profits.

Learn to trade as a professional Market Maker ,not as an emotionally driven amateur trader or investor with few thousand dollars in an account at Etrade.

There isn't any other time during the day or any stock you can invest in, that can make you 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or more points

in minutes OTHER than during the first hour the stock market is open. That's why I love trading the open so much.

I trade only when I have an edge and that means "only the first hour the market is open".

If you are a beginning trader, you can give yourself an unfair advantage in the market trading this way.

I can carry on with the advises about how to make money trading, but if you ask me:

"What is the best thing you can do for me?

I will say:

Give yourself a BIG favor and go to this "Top Secret" site and learn how to get the BEST stocks that will make the largest and fastest day trading profits you´ve ever seen, all by yourself...

www.onehourtrading.com

After you review this site you won´t need system, strategy, book, software or mentor to tell you what to do,

you will be able to profit HUGE every day.

Good luck and good trading,

John Fontaine

Answer 12

The manager of Forexrazor.com has been making over 10 percent every month on a consistent basis. That would mean doubling your money in less than 10 months. I'm not exactly telling you to invest in Forexrazor.com, but I just want to let you see how fast money can grow depending on your risk aversion.

Answer 13

just look here

http://www.tradersinternational.com

all you really need is $10K for this and trust me it profits

you can use the other $40K on other ventures

these guys are amazing

Answer 14

With the economy the way it is right now...

And the government not doing anything about it...

I'd buy some gold and silver.  I know it's high now, but it's not going to come down anytime soon.  Some speculate $2000 or more per once coming down in the near future.

Answer 15

First tell me how old are you ?