My aim to become a skilled investor

Ground Rules for Investing

http://www.valueresearchonline.com/story/storyview.asp?str=10055

1) Develop a Plan
a.Short Term goals – Cash and Short term bonds
b.Long Term goals – equities
2) Keep it simple
a.Diversified equity fund
b.Index fund
c.Floating rate bond
3) Ignore the hot stocks and funds
4) Invest Regularly
5) Buy and Hold
6) Start Early

Research Investments -> Remember your goals -> Re examine the risk

Words I come across today
1) Vouch - guarantee
E.g. Our Customers will often vouch for this.
2) Tenet – religious doctrine that is proclaimed as truth without proof, dogma
E.g. our associates have indeed woven this customer centric tenet into their work ethic.
3) Reveler (Reveller) – merrymaker, A celebrant who shares in a noisy party
E.g. A reveler, from New Zealand, leaps from the Saint Cecilia fountain into the arms of the crowd below
4) Banderilla – A decorated dart that is implanted in the neck of the bull during the bullfight.
E.g. A fighter nails a banderilla while riding his horse in front of the charging bull.
5) Heist – the act of stealing, robbery at gunpoint.
E.g. Heist movie CASH