The Bull Hunters Guide

Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! It goes without saying that you want to make the most out of your investments. You might be carefully observing the pros at work and trying to incorporate their tactical, thoughtful, patient behavior into your own decisions in order to do this. However, you should never simply follow a person’s example.

Investment parroting doesn’t reflect the unique dynamics of your particular situation, and most importantly, it does nothing to take advantage of your capable and intelligent mind. When you look at stocks, don’t stop to wait just because Warren Buffett is pondering his next move. Despite being a genius, he’s still just one man. He definitely doesn’t know the opportunities that are available to you, and can’t use your eyes to determine profit waiting to happen.

Seizing Investment Opportunities

If you want to make a killer investment with a huge return, then sometimes the best course of action is to seize opportunity. Methodical analysis is an extremely important element of determining market conditions.

However, there is a point where you need to simply choose to take that jump and pounce on a future profit. That’s all there is to it. You see the potential in something, and so you decide to get up and grab it!

If you need an example, take Google for instance. Or Microsoft. A lot of investors in the past are really beating themselves on top their heads today knowing that they could of invested in these fantastically successive companies that saw immense profits. Instead, this players decided to wait it out and see if things were to change even further before taking the “risk” to make a firm decision. In the end, they lost out.

That sort of thing serves as an exceptional example on how you should always complete your research homework on time and use it for making good on your analytical efforts. It’s a good idea to observe the market before committing to a decision. Haste can kill profit. However, if you wait, you may miss golden opportunities.

Keep An Open Mind

In the end, a successful investing mentality is simple. It’s all about keeping your mind open to new things, staying perceptive, and incorporating flexible thinking into your investment decisions. That’s it.

It’s different for everyone however, but just work at staying away from trope psychology and the “follow the leader” pace that causes the financial demise of many unsuccessful investors. Be confident in yourself! Your mind is your best asset, so make your financial intelligence work for you.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the success mentality for investing series, and gained some valuable insight on how to improve your own investment making decisions. See you next time for a 7 part series focused on investment magnate - Warren Buffet.

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2010

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Greetings once again, and thanks for returning for another exciting entry on developing a success mentality for investing. We’ve been covering the ways in which the most successful investors look at the market, and the things they pay attention to when determining risk and value.

With so many players in the stock market, it’s easy to feel lost among a tide of people making major choices on a daily basis. You may be wondering how they all factor into the values of companies, and what their behavior does when it comes to choosing investments for yourself.

Acting On Stock Market Trends

One of the things taught to us early with investing is to be original and pioneering, to act against trends, think outside the box, and beat your own path. If stocks are being snatched up, you should sell, sell, sell, throwing yours to the market to obtain immense profit. If people are selling theirs at a loss, then you should work quick to snatch them up.

There’s value in that behavior, but it’s not a sealed deal for success. Rather, it’s just another investment strategy, and one that is dependent on constantly changing factors that the most successful investors evaluate on their own terms. When it comes to stocks, sometimes it is a good idea to follow trends and stick with the herd.

For example, if a stock is falling, waiting it out before making a purchase may be a good idea. Others will flock to it in the hopes of realising profit, only to see that it continues to fall and gain back a small amount of value. You, on the other hand, decided to wait until the stock hit the bottom, so that your investment gained a considerable return when a portion of the stock’s price returned.

The basic principle at work here is that the market is flexible, and so there are many opportunities that exist beyond what people have come to expect. It’s simply a matter of learning to evaluate performance on your own terms and not by what “common sense” strategy told you.

That’s it for the sixth chapter. We now have one more to go in this series detailing how you can employ effective thinking for making your investments successful! Stay tuned for more next week!

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2010

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Welcome back. We’re glad you enjoy reading advice on how to invest wisely. Continuing from where we left off in part four of developing the success mentality for investing, we’re going to move towards covering another critical thinking skill that applies to ensuring that your investments are always sensible choices.

It’s Not All About Crunching Numbers

A lot of amateur investors are often told that they should bury their head in the market journals and utilize mathematical formulas for determining successful investment strategies. This is something basic that works, but it can only take you so far. In fact, crunching numbers is only useful when you couple it with what those numbers represent the real world.

Changing values can alert you to opportunities and risks, but they don’t necessarily tell you what those opportunities or risks are. When it comes to making those brilliant choices that the best investors are famous for, it often boils down to evaluating and paying close attention to business practices, employee behavior, and press correspondence.

Pay Attention To The Company Behind The Stock

This mindset is called qualitative evaluation, and it’s basically a matter of inferring changes and deducing market reactions to the things that occur with the key players and participants behind stock-based companies. Very much like being a detective, you have to be willing to forget the numbers and investigate the idiosyncrasies of a company and its behavior.

For example, in 2002, during a Ciena Corporation conference call, Gary Smith, their CEO, was talking. A very festive event, Smith maintained a jubilant attitude regarding the future of his company. However, some individuals recognized Smith’s unusual usage of the term”difficult” and his tone of voice when talking about the economic landscape for telecommunications.

While most basic investors would never have paid attention to this, the shrewd purveyors of fortune knew that this indicated troubled times ahead for the company. Sure enough, almost half of the stocks were sold off only months after the conference, despite optimism.

Always pay attention to what affects your stock directly. Numbers are representations, so you should turn to what they represent and pay attention to the happenings of businesses and the people that run them. This concludes today’s lesson. Don’t leave us however, as we still have more to cover for this series!

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2010

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Hey there, we’re glad that you’re back! We’re off to a good start with this series. In part two of success mentality for investing we spoke about how panic is the worst thing that can happen to your state of mind, we’re now going to address future changes and what to look for before buying stocks.

The Philosophy Of Buying And Selling Stocks

It may seem that the classic investment philosophy of “buy low, sell high” is basically the golden standard when it comes to making a profit, but it’s hardly ever that simple. Just because a stock is low doesn’t mean that you should jump at it.

Likewise, if there are tremendously expensive stocks to purchase, then don’t be afraid of considering them when thinking about property to add to your investment portfolio.

It may not make sense at first, but there is very good judgment involved. The most successful investors always look for the looming factors that can suddenly adjust a stock value. In order words, they pay attention to near-term catalysts when considering selling or buying stocks.

It’s true that paying attention to advice telling you to invest for the longest term is very smart. However, there’s wisdom in looking at what’s coming up around the corner and knowing what to expect that could very well significantly adjust the value of the stock in question.

For instance, the stocks for automotive companies have been cheap this year. Especially GM, which is some of the cheapest you can look into. Buying stocks that are the cheapest may seem like a good idea. Not always so! Gas prices have gone up considerably, haven’t they? Factor in the fact that GM has largely focused on producing heavy inefficient SUVs and Trucks to push sales, then you can see how the two collide to produce devastating results. The price of gas is the “near-term catalyst” that you’re looking for.

The basic idea is to look at stock broadly and to know what affects it directly. Evaluating numbers is a great exercise in abstraction, but sometimes the best stock investment strategies involve simply considering obvious aspects of companies and the variables of their respective industries.

Having said all this, we’ve run out of time. Be certain to check back often, as we’re not done yet. Thanks for reading, and come back soon!

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2010

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In part 1 of success mentality for investing, we covered the basic idea that a good state of mind is perhaps the most important asset you can possess. We will now move forward with this subject and address the ways in which you can improve your thinking and adopt the psychology of investment pros.

The first thing we’ll go over is probably the most obvious mode of behavior you can keep in mind when looking to make solid investment choices. Nonetheless, it’s also the one that’s hardest to master, especially in a field where stock values can suddenly surge or vanish overnight.

Avoid Panic With Your Investments

Basically, when facing the volatility of the stock market, avoid panic. This can’t be stressed enough. Panic is an emotion that destroys your ability to make sound choices and maintain sensible perspective on things. If you allow yourself to be overruled by this dangerous feeling, you’ll end up only making irrational choices that you’ll soon regret.

The stock market is a dangerous place for newcomers, and it’s still something that even the best investors will say that you can never stay comfortable with, because the future is always changing, and what’s valuable today could be gone in an instant tomorrow, and a single wrong choice may very well ruin all your assets.

Because of this, panic is exactly what happens most often to investors when they see the crazy changes of Wall Street (or their stock market of choice). They up liquidating their stocks or rushing to what they see as safe purchases - all without a clear head.

Alright, so we know that panic is a terrible thing. Still, it happens often. That’s natural. What do you do? The solution for panic is to keep it minimal and employ it as a positive factor to motivate you to succeed even harder with investments. In a market where nothing is guaranteed, you never want to rest. Instead, look to make your fear of unemployment or bankruptcy a matter that drives you to achieve your best under any circumstances.

That about covers it for now. We have a lot more to factor into this series, and plenty of ground to cover still. Hopefully you’ve learned a few things with this entry. Stick around and anticipate the next entry of developing the success mentality for investing!

Sean Rasmussen
The Bullhunters Guide
Universal Wealth Creation © 2004 - 2010

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