"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Is the stock market rigged?

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Maybe you wanna try mutual funds to get your hand in it.

I am a stockbroker and wealth manager.

We are in a rising market so, no one can do wrong.

Mutual Funds are a bunch of stocks put together, growth could be better than the index, risk is usually lower than index... cost of entry is low

Stocks: Maximun possible outcome, maximun risk

Index: Great if you don't wanna beat and just go with the ride, however, you will fall with the rest and usually harder or growth until you cap

Pennies: Don't get in that ****.

However, there is 10 000 mutuals funds, stocks, index funds to chose from. So which one?

It's extremely personal and emotional.... so alot of people who had a bad experience will than go to say the ''market is rigged''... hey like woman! You blame the market if you can't pull good stocks.

You'll have to do your research (collect data) and apply mathematical formulas to predict its ''outcome''... I would advertise go with stuff (sectors) you love or know.

Major financial instutions have high frequencies systems which take control of the ''echanges'' also... yes alot of investors including Warren Buffet have inside informations which they pay for the service. Thus, helping them being ''ahead''

The best thing: give yourself a budget, pick a sector based on your passions, study it, invest slowly
 
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"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Ok then, so do any of you have any thoughts about the companies I have mentioned above and what their future is?
Kids don't speculate with individual stocks because we on the outside LACK all of the information that's truly needed to determine if the stock is going up, if it's overpriced right now, etc. We just do not have enough information here on the outside.

- Go to Vanguard and put a portion of your funds in an S&P Index Fund: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0040&FundIntExt=INT

- Then put another portion of your funds in a Total Bond Market Index Fund: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0084&FundIntExt=INT

- Then you can do further diversification by putting a portion of your funds in a Real Estate Fund, or a Long Term CD, etc.

- Finally, put a portion of your funds in an Emergency Checking/Savings account that's designed to cover Emergencies.

Note, do not put anything in the Index Funds that you need back out within the next 10 - 15 years. When you put those in, let them ride the roller coaster for 20 - 25 years.
 
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