Risk tolerance is critical for online stock market investing. When you’re just beginning to invest in the stock market, you’ll discover that each person has a risk tolerance that should be honored and taken into account. A professional financial planner worth his salt must understand this so he can help you determine your risk tolerance. Then, that person needs to help you ascertain which investments don’t exceed that risk level.
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Stock Market Investing For Dummies
1. Stock Market Investing for Dummies
by Korprit Zombie
Risk tolerance is critical for online stock
market investing. When you’re just
beginning to invest in the stock market,
you’ll discover that each person has a risk
tolerance that should be honored and taken
into account. A professional financial
planner worth his salt must understand this
so he can help you determine your risk
tolerance. Then, that person needs to help
you ascertain which investments don’t
exceed that risk level.
Some people think that risk tolerance is
related only to your emotional reaction to
investing.That’s just not true. There is a lot
involved in deciding your risk tolerance,
and emotions aren’t the only factors
involved.
2. Ascertaining your own risk tolerance, with
regards to online stock market investing,
requires that you consider multiple factors.
One of those factors being that you know
how much investment capital you have
available, and you also have to be totally
cognizant of what you are trying to achieve
financially. For example, if you plan to stop
working in 13 years and you haven’t even
started saving for retirement yet, you will
need to keep up a high risk tolerance and do
some hardcore investing to have enough
cash to retire.
Conversely, If your investing begins when
you’re 20, your online stock market
investing risk tolerance level can stay low.
Getting into the habit of investing early in
life will allow you to let your money grow
over time. When you combine this with
what you know about your emotional
3. reaction to financial issues, the right
investment recipe will become obvious. It’s
hard to ascertain this for yourself, so
experts recommend that people use a
reliable professional who can expertly
assess you risk tolerance and assist you
with selecting appropriate investment
opportunities.
Knowing your risk tolerance will help you
establish an investment style and help you
feel confident when you and your broker
make investment decisions. Even though
there are myriad investment types, there are
really only three specific investment styles
- and those three styles tie in with your risk
tolerance. Those styles are commonly
known as moderate, conservative and
aggressive. But I will save the explanation
of those for another article. Those will be
clarified in a future article.