winning in the stock market

First off don't get fuct. I got fuct in the market and I never looked back. The future isn't paper my friend.

Buy the correct stock. Your asking something, that if there were an answer to, everybody would do it.

A permanent loss of two grand in two years was as much as I could bare.

It's tough to make money in the market when the market falls daily.

So, buy low, sell high (10 years later)!

One U.S. company I invested in tanked after the market crash in 08. Evergreen Solar of Mass.

You have to have an understanding of what you are investing in. How it reacts to certain situations. What is the sentiment on it currently? How will it be viewed in the future? Does it have or will it have competition after a patent expires. There isn't a secret formula. Its just understanding how the market works.

An example would be David Einhorn shorting GMCR near the top because he knew their patent was expiring and Starbucks would (and did) jump all over it.

Unless you are an active investor I see it very hard to do the old buy and hold strategy. But if you know what you are doing there is lots of money to be made.

Unless you have a lot of money... don't.
You're hedging bets on a assumption based on past performance, which is always a risk.

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You need to study the micro markets separately and extensively to get in and out ahead of the game. Here is a pretty good real time example of me making a few bucks shorting gold ETFs while fellow RIU members were considering buying the metal: https://www.rollitup.org/black-briefcase/565966-couple-questions-about-gold.html

By the time the normal consumer reads or hears of an investment opportunity, they would already be on the other side of the curve, and usually in a losing situation. Remember, the big money is always way ahead of the normal consumer. I have an MBA in Finance and Investments and have worked in some major corporations and I've seen 1st hand the "illegality" of it all. Some shocking stuff going on. I have 90% of all my investments in coins/gold/silver. They will always be worth a substantial portion (if not more) than what I paid for them and no matter where inflation goes- and it's about to skyrocket, these are the safest of all investments. In our country's current situation, silver up people.

Invest in farm land

Land is best for LONG TERM (10+ years), but not necessarily for the shorter term.

in a recent smartmoney article they suggested a few marijuana stocks that have potential here's the article http://www.smartmoney.com/invest/stocks/how-to-invest-in-legalized-marijuana-1352828147907/

also, on my blog Bruce Perlowin(famous smuggler made $100 mill smuggling weed) founded Hemp Inc (OTC: Hemp) and also founded Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC: MJNA) " Of course my favorite company is my own HEMP however I have invested in or work with a lot of other companies in this sector: RFMK, CBIS, GRNH and my second favorite (probably because I’m a consultant to them and I know they are doing thing right) PHOT."

grow weed, the money is better .

I'm not too sure how it works, but I have a buddy that makes a ton of money in the options market, he never invests in actual stocks. You design the level of risk you're willing to take on a bet, and control your losses, as opposed to watching the value, and thus your investment dollar, go up and down all day.

I'm using Ameritrade's Think or Swim paper money program trying to learn it. I just got started, so I know nothing as of yet. Its cool though, you open a free account, they give you $200k of fake money to invest. You have access to the entire trading platform to do with as you wish, and access to tons of free webinars and instruction to learn with. All for no cost.

I even thought I'd be getting calls from TD Ameritrade brokers since they have my info, and not one cold call yet. Its cool. Its nice to have 2 screens to do it easily though, so you don't have to click on every window to open and close.

You take a risk on a cheap stock because you have confidence it will blow up one day?

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