Is it Good to Invest in Stocks
Like anything else to become good at investing in stocks
requires becoming familiar with how the stock market works. Also
it does take some time and patience to learn how to invest properly in stocks
and you should follow an investing strategy which has historically had good
results. Thus the answer to the question of is it good to invest
in stocks is "Yes".
At Amateur Investors (AI) our Long Term Investing Strategy has
consistently outperformed the S&P 500 since 2001 as shown in the table
below. (Please note the results in 2006 are only through the month of
March). Meanwhile our Short Term Investing Strategy was started in 2005
and returned 64% for the year.
Year |
2006 |
2005 |
2004 |
2003 |
2002 |
2001 |
AI Long Strategy
|
+10% |
+31.2% |
+68.8% |
+119.3% |
+48.9% |
+51.3% |
AI Short Strategy
|
+20% |
+63.9% |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Dow |
+3.6% |
-0.6% |
+3.1% |
+25.3% |
-16.7% |
-7.1% |
Nasdaq |
+6.1% |
+1.4% |
+8.6% |
+50.0% |
-31.5% |
-21.0% |
S&P 500 |
+3.7% |
+3.0% |
+9.0% |
+26.4% |
-23.3% |
-13.0% |
Thus as you can see our Investing Strategies have been very
successful over the past several years and if you spend the time to learn our
Strategies then you should do well investing in Stocks in both good and bad
markets.
A Premium Membership allows you to have access to our Stocks
to Watch Buy List which provides a list of Stocks that are exhibiting favorable Chart Patterns
along with specific Buy and Stop Loss Prices in addition to Target
Prices. In addition you will have access to our Weekly
ETF Signals and Market
Timing Indicator (MTI) as well.
Also you will receive our Daily Breakout Report
by email which Alerts you to Stocks
that are breaking out of a favorable Chart Pattern from our Stocks
to Watch List.
Our Spring Membership Special for
new Members is shown below
which are 50% Off our normal Monthly Rate of $39.95.
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|
Initial 50% Off
Introductory Rate
|
2 Week Trial Membership
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FREE |
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$19.95 |
6 Month Membership |
$119.95 |
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