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3 Huge Advantages of Long Term Investing

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Investing into a group of strong companies over the long term can be an amazingly simple, yet powerful way of making money in the stock market. It isn’t very complicated and it actually works.

There are a lot of advantages to doing this. Below are just a few of these advantages.

1. Backed By History

Stocks go up and down as bear and bull markets occur. In the short term it can be a pretty stressful ride, especially if you have no idea what you are doing. However, in the long term it works pretty well. Over the long term stocks tend to go up.

This strategy can over time build investors considerable wealth. Sometimes the slow and steady way wins the race. The whole “Get rich quick” mindset may work for some people, but that is not the norm.

2. Low Maintenance

Long term investing is also pretty low maintenance, which is a fantastic thing. Unless you want to spend a lot of your time watching the market and adjusting for every little situation paying too much attention to what is currently going on is really only going to stress you out. Instead you can simply invest into a few strong companies and hold onto them over the long term. At least you know that it works.

3. Receiving Dividends

There are a lot of stocks out there that will pay out a small dividend for each share of stock that an investor owns. While the amount paid per share may not be a lot, if you are able to save up and invest a lot of money into these dividend stocks it can add up pretty nicely and turn into a large income. Little things add up after all.

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Long Term Investing, Is It Dead?

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Does long term investing still work? Over the last few years there have been many ups and downs and this has lead some people to believe that long term investing is dead. So is it? Does investing into a diversified portfolio still work over the long term?

Well, all the evidence seems to suggest that it is still a valid way to make money. Just because there have been a lot of ups and downs in recent years doesn’t mean that it isn’t very profitable to hold stocks for the long term, say 20 years or more.

1. Stocks can be volatile

We want our time to be unique, when something bad happens we want to believe that it is just because our time is the end of bull markets. But in reality there have been plenty of times in the past were stocks have trended sideways or gone up and down for many years on end.

The investors who made money during sideways trends where those who simply looked for good investments and hung onto them until the market finally broke out of its sideways trend and went up.

2. History is a Good Indicator

Over the long term the major indexes such as the Dow Jones and the S&P have gone up and they continue to go up. In fact, aside from buying at the top of the great depression if you would have invested into strong stocks and held them for 20 years during any point in the past it would have been profitable. History repeats itself more often than not.

3. Dividend Stocks

If you do take a look at the long term chart of the major indexes you are still not seeing the whole story. They also paid out dividends. These dividends alone can make them better investments then other similar securities like bonds or CDs.

All and all the stock market has been a profitable place to invest money over the long term and the last few years haven’t changed that. There is no way to tell for sure if the stock market will be a profitable place to buy and hold in the future, but history looks good. And in the end that is all we can really say.

For more on the Dow Jones History and it’s returns or for more information on how the stock market has done over the long term visit this Stock Market History Graph page.

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