Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Effective Investment Strategies (written by Daniel Kertcher)

Building your own retirement portfolio can be quite a daunting task. There are many different strategies you can adopt to help your investment dollars grow. The difficulty lies in choosing the strategies that will suit you the most.

Many people believe in investing heavily in property. While residential property investments have been very popular for decades, many investors have not enjoyed strong gains simply due to poor decisions when they bought the properties. Buying property in slow growth areas, gearing too high and poor property management can leave many investors with a very sour experience, not
to mention the opportunity loss.

Over the past decade, share trading and investing have become far more popular. Many of the hassles of property investing do not exist with share investments. However, it still comes back to making the right decisions when purchasing, and then managing the investment well. The beauty of shares is that you can quickly, inexpensively and easily exit the investment if it is not performing. Conversely, you can quickly enter an investment if you feel it has strong potential.

As more and more investors become interested in the stock market, many are discovering that there is far more to share investing than just buying shares and leaving them in the bottom drawer. Investors are discovering strategies such as “Writing Covered Calls” and “Spreads, Straddles and Strangles”. In fact, there are many different strategies which allow share and options traders to reduce their risk and/or increase their reward.

One of the most exciting strategies is Writing Covered Calls. To many, these words have little meaning, but to those who know, these words mean everything. Writing covered calls has been hailed as one of the most powerful, yet simplest, forms of wealth creation.

If you already own shares and would be prepared to sell them at a higher price then they are today, then writing covered calls may be for you. In return for the obligation to sell them at a higher price, you will be paid between 2%-6% of the value of the shares.

Now, there are some restrictions and limitations. Not all shares have Exchange Traded Options (ETO) available, and hence, not all shares will allow you to write covered calls. In fact, only 64 company shares have ETO’s. The Australian market can be fairly illiquid for all but the largest companies, but once you understand the strategy, you can use it on the American markets, as that market offers the same opportunities. The only difference is that there are thousands of ETO’s available.

Platinum Pursuits hosts investment seminars most weeks, as well as 3 day training workshops, where a variety of investment strategies are taught. Various Australian experts are invited to teach topics such as Option trading, writing Covered Calls, Self-Managed Super, Tax planning and effective international share investment. Be sure to secure your place at one of our upcoming seminars!

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