Why do major changes catch me so late?

Question

I dont get it!!!!

Im just know realizing asian is on the rise and Im reading books on how to invest internationally by people who started about the year I was born ( 1980's). How can I stop being on the tail end of new advancements? By the time I have enough money to do some serious investing , Asian will have reached a plateau...... ggrrrrr.....!

But its not just asia, its nearly everything, from tech to meds, to intl movements to popculture, where can I go to get up to date on nearly everything....or am I stuck having to bouch around and hope Im lucky?

Answer 1

LOL. You need to catch up a LOT. "Asia is on the rise" you say?

China has fallen recently to less than HALF.

But you are in luck because most of the market is behind while trying to predict the future. The majority has a strong tendency to ignore the reality and move more on momentum until it fails.

That is why I am a contrarian investor. For example, housing prices in most of the country peaked in 2006! TWO years ago. And last year with it coming to a head, subprimes were already a problem, the stock market went up 1,000 points in a little over a month.

You do get plenty of warning in most cases. The trick is to learn to listen to it through the "noise".

Answer 2

First STOP LISTENING TO CNBC.

These guy are 6 months to a year behind the curve.

Second, Start listening to http://www.FinancialSense.com

These guys are 6 months to a year ahead of the curve.

I rarely miss the Financial Sense Broadcast put out every weekend.

They warned about peak oil production 5 years ago when oil was 40.00 per barrel.

Ignore this site at your own peril.

Answer 3

You can rarely predict things accurately very far off into the future. But usually whenever you are hearing a lot of noise about somehting (like emerging markets for example) its because the prices have already moved a lot either up or down. Your best bet is to diversify and hold a little of everythings, from stocks, bonds, some commodities and foreign and emerging markets. then you simply rebalance when one sector grows rapidly by selling some and placing in lagging sectors as they may increase in value next. In this way you will be guaranteed to participate in almost every major move without having to predict it. The key is how you react to the markets in this case and not predicting them. And reacting happens to be a lot easier to do well then to predict.