Thomas-Brock-4-What is your top advice for novice investors
Video Transcript
If you're a novice investor, I have a number of tips for you. First and foremost, don't invest in anything you don't understand.
You don't have to have a deep, deep knowledge.
A little basic research might serve you well, or perhaps you have a friend or family member that's knowledgeable and can help you kind of sort through the details. If you wanna spend a little bit of money, there's some inexpensive robo advisors out there too that can provide you educational research and guidance. Another key tip for novice investors is to invest as early and for as long as you can. You're really gonna capitalize on compound interest and the benefit of that long investing horizon if you do that. Always diversify your investments within asset classes and across asset classes.
The idea here is that by mixing bonds, stocks, alternative investments, cash, you're gonna mitigate some of that volatility you would experience in a undiversified portfolio.
So, over time, you'll have the ups and downs, but you'll end up at a higher spot than you would have if you didn't diversify.
A final piece of advice for novice investors is to not react to stock market ups and downs, especially if you have a long horizon.
The worst thing you can do is a knee jerk reaction and start selling your stocks when the market tanks. You have a long, long horizon, so no short term overreactions.
