What is the best thing to invest in? Real estate, stock, etc...?

I think most people would probably recommend stocks, because it's a little easier to learn about them and start small. Both can be risky, and both can be great. Personally, I've chosen real estate, because of the area of the country we live in. Here in upstate NY, we can buy a house for 45K and rent it out for $650. So all we do is watch as our tenants basically pay the mortgage, including taxes and insurance, and we still have at least $200 a month on top of that to make improvements if needed, prepay on the mortgage, or do whatever we want with. So we are building equity pretty quickly without putting anything in to it out of our own pocket. There are risks, you have to make sure you're making good purchases, know what you could rent it out for, etc... And you have to be prepared for things to go wrong, a furnace to break down here and there, etc... But all in all, especially right now where people are dying to sell their house, you can get great deals, and hold on to them a while until the market picks up. And let someone else pay the mortgage for you.

Well, a lot of investment advice is determined by age and various other factors. However, since you did not list any of this, I will do my best.

Your first option should be to fund fully a retirement account. If you do this, and you have extra cash, then one of the best things you can do is open a DRIP Plan.

They are seldom talked about because brokers make very little money when they suggest them. Yet, they have proven to be one of the best, if not the best, long-term strategy on Wall Street.

They are perfect for small investors, as well as big investors. They are safe and allow you to not care about whether the market is going up or down.

Stocks have proven to be the best investment over any other asset class over any 20 year period(Real estate, Bonds, Treasury, Gold, Silver...etc)

Peter Lynch, author of "Learn to earn" would be a great place to start learning how to invest in the stock market. Lynch also shows in his book that stocks have outperformed any other class in any 20 year period

Â´ve been investing for more than 20 years and trading for almost 14, and I can tell you that if you want to make BIG and FAST profits, I recommend you trading rather than investing, trading can help you to go from rags to rich.
If you are investing, you must have already achieved some degree of finalcial success, long term stock investing and FOREX can help you become much richer than you are today.
My experiences as a Nasdaq Market Maker, Head trader of seveal brokerage firms, and currently as a professional trader and private hedge fund manager, I can sugest you that:

We trade because we want quick, short term profits on a consistent basis. We want to cash flow the market. Milk it like a cow. Make consistent, small, short term gains rather than trying to hit a home run on every trade. Don't ever forget that, don't marry a stock, marry the idea of making money trading stocks. That's the only way to do it.

For me "All stocks are equally worthless"

I don't hold on to any illusion that the stock market will continue to go up and provide a nice retirement for me.
I could care less which way the market goes. It's irrelevant to me if the market goes higher, crashes or moves sideways for the next 50 years. I really could care less. Stocks are just four letters with two prices next to them that I use to make a living trading.

Trade ONLY when you have a clear, easy and identifiable advantage, because without a CLEAR EDGE your odds of success are NO better than a flip of a coinâ€¦ ThatÂ´s why so many new traders (and investors) lose money.

Take a look at any daily chart of any index or stock and you'll probably see the most volatility and the biggest opportunity for profit during the first Hour of the stock market's opening.

The popular thinking and conventional wisdom is that you should wait about an hour before you start trading.

But if you do, you'll miss the big, fast moves that stocks make as all the amateurs let their emotions out through their online accounts, usually right after they read some news headline or hear Maria Bartiromo go off about a stock on CNBC.

It's easy to see why trading the open is the market's prime time for profiting from other online traders.
The market's open is very volatile - that is the perfect environment for LARGE, FAST profits.

Learn to trade as a professional Market Maker ,not as an emotionally driven amateur trader or investor with few thousand dollars in an account at Etrade.

There isn't any other time during the day or any stock you can invest in, that can make you 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or more points in minutes OTHER than during the first hour the stock market is open. That's why I love trading the open so much.

I trade only when I have an edge and that means "only the fisrt hour the market is open".

If you are a beginning trader or investor, you can give yourself an unfair advantage in the market trading this way.

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you will be able to find big profits opportunities evey day, and donÂ´t rely on anybody else.

P.S. Check my last 3 trades, so you can have a better perspective...Check them in any chart softaware or website.

Date: 2/13/2008, Stock: NILE, Gap: $13.57, Action: Bought at $42 Sold at $43.5, Profit: $1500, No. of stocks: 1000, Time: less than 3 minutes.

Date: 2/14/2008, Stock: EQIX, Gap: $7.25, Action: Sold short at $80 Bought at $78, Profit: $2000, No. of stocks: 1000, Time: less than 1 hour.

Date: 2/15/2008, Stock: DRYS, Gap: $3.67, Action: Sold short at $86.5 Bought at $84.5, Profit: $2000, No. of stocks: 1000, Time: less than 1 hour.

TOTAL PROFITS IN 3 DAYS: $5500

What is the best option for you, to invest or daytrade? The answer will depend on your expectations, experience, money, time, but if you are a beginner and you want to put yourself light years ahead of every investor and trader you know and give yourself an unfair advantage in the market get The One Hour Trading System right away!!!

Good luck and good trading,

Dont invest in any one thing. Be diversified and invest in a variety of things The idea is to have a balanced portfolio with uncorrelated assets.

Invest in Silver. Back in 1980, gold sold for $850 and silver sold for $50. Then, one ounce of gold would buy 17 ounces of silver. Today with gold near $900, one ounce of gold will buy a whopping 55 ounces of silver. It seems to me that silver, in terms of gold, is "too cheap."

The bull run for Gold and Silver has been strong since 2002 making about 40+% annually. They should both continue to be a great investment in this type of inflationary environment brought on by the weak US dollar, growing deficit, major growth overseas, etc. We have yet to see the major parabolic phase that puts a final cap on this bull run.

You can buy and sell silver at your local coin shop. I recommend buying 1oz or 10oz bars. If you have a trading account, you can easily buy and sell silver with ticker symbol "SLV". The great thing about SLV is you don't need to store it physically and you can trade it immediately.

short positions

(this is not investment advice)

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