Saturday, 10 December 2011

3 Huge Advantages of Long Term Investing

By Timmy Morre


Investing into a group of strong companies over the long term can be an amazingly simple, yet powerful way of making money in the stock market. It isn't very complicated and it actually works.

There are a lot of advantages to doing this. Below are just a few of these advantages.

1. Backed By History

While over the short term there is no guarantee of making money in the stock market, over the long term it can actually be relatively safe and likely to make you money. Time after time strong stocks have gone up over the long term and it is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

Over time this strategy can bring in a lot of extra wealth for investors as their stocks go higher and higher.

2. Low Maintenance

Long term investing is also pretty low maintenance, which is a fantastic thing. Unless you want to spend a lot of your time watching the market and adjusting for every little situation paying too much attention to what is currently going on is really only going to stress you out. Instead you can simply invest into a few strong companies and hold onto them over the long term. At least you know that it works.

3. Receiving Dividends

There are a lot of stocks out there that will pay out a small dividend for each share of stock that an investor owns. While the amount paid per share may not be a lot, if you are able to save up and invest a lot of money into these dividend stocks it can add up pretty nicely and turn into a large income. Little things add up after all.




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