Good Investing Habit No.1: Have A Plan And Stick To It
If you only use one investing tactic, please use this one.
That's because more than any other factor, discipline makes all the difference in preserving your capital and, more importantly, in growing it.
That's where 99% of most investors fail and, in the process, doom themselves to subpar returns.
The proprietary 50-40-10 structure allocation model I pioneered in our sister publication, the Money Map Report, is a great place to start.
Sometimes it's really tough to stay disciplined, especially when you find an exciting new "Rocket Rider" – like our Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (OBB:EKSO) and you've already got 10% of your capital in more aggressive positions.
But that's actually when you need discipline the most.
By concentrating assets and periodically rebalancing between core assets, growth/income, and speculative positions, you are effectively "forcing" yourself to buy low and sell high using proven logic – not emotion. Plus, this keeps performance-robbing fees low, which Wall Street hates but you'll love because it can add a lot to your returns over time. There are always companies like Ekso out there. If anything, finding more of them is an incentive to invest more often, perhaps even forgoing the $5 designer coffee every day.
The other thing to think about is that you'll sleep well at night even if the markets pitch a hissy fit because the concentration and built-in protection it offers ensure you're high on stability and upside at the same time.
Good Investing Habit No. 2: Take a Measured Approach When You Buy
Many investors spend more time thinking about a new flat-screen TV than they do their next triple-digit winner. So they make the mistake of going all in. They may as well head over to the casinos in Vegas, which love this kind of thinking.
There's a much smarter way to put your money to work…