Chapter 1 Your Basic Investment Strategy
Successful investment in the stock market involves a major decision: what to buy.
Should you buy individual stocks, mutual funds, or exchange traded funds (ETFs—recently developed hybrids of stocks and mutual funds)? Should you be investing in domestic stocks, in stocks and/or mutual funds that represent markets overseas, in large company issues, in smaller company issues, in technology companies, or in higher-yielding financial corporations? And, even more difficult—which stocks, which mutual funds, or which ETFs should you consider?
These decisions sound complicated—but, luckily, there are strategies that you will learn that should almost certainly, almost automatically, put your capital in ...
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