How the Online Stock Trading Market Works

Imagine losing all your properties in just one day. Devastating, right? What are you feeling? What’s going on in your head? Now that is what investors were feeling and thinking during the Great Depression of 1929. Joseph Kennedy was lucky. He sold all his stocks before Black Thursday. Apparently, he was tipped by a shoeshine boy. The latter owned stock and that made Kennedy believe that something was not right since the stock market system was for the powerful and rich.

Nowadays, anyone can own stock – and that is “anyone.” In fact, online stock market trading has made it even more possible for those who have a computer and enough money to simply open their own trading accounts and invest in the stock market of their choice. Anyone is capable as long as they have a clean slate on their financial history. You don’t need to hire a personal broker or possess disposable fortune to take part on the stock market trading system. In fact, analysts agree that there’s nothing wrong with average people trying their wallets out in the stock market.

The market is more accessible but traders must not take trading lightly nonetheless. There are different types on online stock market trading accounts that they should consider. They should also know how to protect their accounts from fraud, make trades and choose an online brokerage.

In the stock market, a stock is piece of a company. Shareholders or the people who invest in these stocks are associated with the future of the company until the day that they possess a share. Prices of the stocks depend on the economic conditions and the investors and company’s trading approach. When a company offers stock for the public, this is called IPO or initial public offering.

The minute businesses generate profits, they can share these with their stockholders and issue dividends. A business can also save profits or even re-invest this if they improve the company and hire new people. Income stocks are stocks that issue dividends and growth stocks are stocks in companies that have been re-invested as profits.

Trading begins when brokers buy and sell their stocks through the exchange and charge commissions. Brokers are people who are licensed to conduct trading of stocks through the market. He can do this in real time on the floor or he can work in the comfort of his own home.Online stock market trading is when the broker is not on the floor. Real money is still used. However, instead of discussing investments with someone, stocks are bought, sold and requested by the trader himself.

That being said, brokers are there to help traders. They just have to choose the firm that provides them with the service that they are looking for.

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3 Alternative Investments to Diversify Your Portfolio

In the current climate it is important to hold a diversified portfolio of investments, and not place all of ones eggs into the same metaphorical basket.

As inflation remains high the value of cash diminishes, and so investors seek to acquire assets where the value tracks or beats inflation.

As interest rates are low, investors also require income from the portfolio to replace the lost ‘risk-free’ income from cash deposits.

As markets are volatile, the savvy investor hopes to invest in assets that continue to grow in value steadily, and do not fall in value at the slightest whiff of bad political or economic news.

Here are three types of alternative investments that do not depend on the performance of traditional assets like stocks and shares, bonds, cash or property, and display the characteristics mentioned above.

Farmland Investments

The price of agricultural land is directly related to earnings derived from the land itself. Agricultural real estate assets have been shown in studies of historical data to grow in value at 2% above the rate of inflation.

Arable land also generates annual income from the cultivation and sale of crops, or from lease payments from tenant farmers, replacing lost income when dividends from other investments fall or interest rates are low.

Farmland is in exceptionally high demand as the population grows and demands more food, but supplies of suitable land are actually shrinking due to urbanisation, land degradation andclimate change. Returns form farmland investments then are driven by population growth and rising incomes/increased consumption, rather than financial markets, and as these are long-term fundamental trends, farmland generates very little volatility and is not affected by short term peaks and troughs.

Smaller investors find it difficult to access direct farmland investments due to the amount of capital required and the expertise in selecting / managing properties. There are of course farmland investment funds to consider or other, more innovative structures allowing multiple investors a stake in a larger asset through a trust or a bond.

Forestry Investments

Investing in trees used to be a preoccupation of institutional investors like pension funds and hedge funds, but now there are lots of opportunities for smaller investors to participate in direct forestry investments, as well as regulated and unregulated forestry investment funds.

Returns from forestry investments come from the cultivation and sales of timber. As trees continue to grow in size they also grow in value, so returns are driven by biological growth. This means forestry investments retain their value if other assets falter. If the stock marketcrashes tomorrow (again), trees are still getting bigger and more valuable.

The rate of growth of trees outstrips the rate of inflation by some margin, making forestry investments one of the best performing assets classes for 30 years, avoiding the majority of market volatility that has occurred during that period.
Smaller investors can participate in a forestry investment fund, or they can take ownership of managed plots within commercial forestry plantations growing a variety of different timber types in various global regions from Brazil to Australia.

Renewable Energy Investments

One of the most popular types of alternative investments available today in renewable energy investment. This could be investing in wind turbines, solar panels or biofuel plantations, not to mention a host of other innovative power production projects.

For the most part, renewable energy investments generate returns from the production and sale of electricity from free and unlimited sources such as wind or the sun. This means that income from direct renewable energy investments is not dependent on the markets, and income track energy prices, which rise as demand increases and supplies of traditional fuels run out.

So investing in renewable energy provides an inflation-linked income stream that is not market dependent, and where the source never runs out.

There are of course many other types of alternative investments to consider and investors are encouraged to seek advice from professional advisors that are able to demonstrate and excellent level of knowledge and a verifiable track record.

Download the Alternative Investment Report at the DGC Asset Management website

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