INVEST INTO COMPANIES & MAKE PROFIT…HELP (WHERE TO INVEST)?

If you made $2000 a week, why not borrow $100 grand and make $4000 a week. Nobody can say how much you can make or not. No guarantees. I try to invest in companies that I use and know somthing about, maybe you should too.

You really should take a college level course in economics, where you learn about money, banking, investment, savings, and markets. THEN you should take more than once course offered by different stock brokerages or investment councilors about investing. I say more than one so that you are not immediately persuaded to invest with the company offering the course.

You should decide how much money you have to invest, how much you are willing to lose due to probable losses, how fast you are hoping to accumulate wealth, whether you will adopt a strategy that uses newspapers as an information source (usually a bad idea), whether and how much you will diversify your investments.

The ideas you proposed are basically to invest in “consumer commodities” on the theory that everybody needs these things. Most commodities are subject to seasonal price changes, sometimes due to supply variations, sometimes due to consumer patterns of buying. You have to decide if the occasional or seasonal slumps in price levels are going to discourage you or not. If you ignore those slumps entirely then you miss opportunities to profit from DIFFERENT commodities while the ones you’ve bought are in a slump.

I sure hope you didn’t confuse flour with Fluor; there is no connection. There are many company names that do not mean what you might think. GE does NOT make GE small appliances, for example.

You may think regular need means regular predictable price rises. If you take cleaning products, you should see that demand goes up in the spring when many people indulge in “spring cleaning”. Relatively speaking, other seasons are less active. Does this mean the volume of cleaning products bought rises in the spring? I don’t know, and until you investigate that, neither do you.

In summer, more people eat hotdogs. Does that mean the volume of hotdog purchases rises in the summer. Probably, but you really should investigate that. Some meat can be frozen and held for later processing into hotdogs. This changes the relationship of buying time to manufacturing time. Some ingredients are not season-sensitive. This could matter.

In general you will observe a more steady rise in the purchasing of products that are new and meet new needs. This will result in investment opportunities only if the makers are heavily dependent upon the new products. If Procter and Gamble comes out with a new brand of toothpaste, but it only accounts for 1 percent of sales, it will have a very small influence on P&G’s profit and therefore stock price, even if this new toothpaste quickly grows to be #1 in its market.

I hope you see why a pretty thorough study is required. If you have a lot of information from your reading and research, then more of your decisions will be sound instead of guesswork.

One way to accelerate that study is to read all you can in two or three publications every week, especially what is written about products, manufacturers, and markets. Those publications are, in order of importance to the regular small investor:
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Business Week.

Whatever you do, do NOT establish your stock purchasing account with a large brokerage company, as they will OFTEN mislead small investors to make bad decisions with what they call their “recommendations”. Never accept advice from a person or company that will earn money from your decisions! Their profit comes from “churning” accounts, not from helping you.

Unless you find a proven successful individual investor to associate with, your best source of decisions will be YOU.
I said decisions, not raw information.

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