Many people understand as time goes on that investing is by far the best thing you can do with your discretionary income. After buying the latest CD or going to yet another night out at the movies, one begins to get jaded about spending ones money in such a futile way. It is obvious as time goes on, that our money working for us, and not the other way around is the best idea for a brighter future, so lets explore some low entry investment ideas for under $100 dollars.

Often, investing in the stock market or real estate which are the traditional vehicles to wealth, can have prohibitive entry costs. The amount of cash you have to invest is staggering to the average person and so, looking for smaller sized investment vehicles may be necessary.

When investing small amounts of money of $100 to $500 dollars, one needs to take a different strategy. Traditional investments are typically very conservative and a return at the end of the year of a mere 10% is an excellent return. But with small seed capital, waiting a year to make $10 on your $100 dollar investment is not exactly going to make you rich.

The strategy to use with small investments is to be aggressive and seek out returns of 1000% or more per year. If you could turn your initial $100 into $1000 dollars then we have something to work with. To achieve this you need short cycle investments of a week or a few weeks and also this point of having speed of returns makes it possible over a year to get a %1000 result.

The other point with low seed capital investments is to invest in many and hedge your bets. By this I mean, when you invest aggressively for high and fast returns you expect that on occasion you will not get a return or even see your money. This wont happen every time but will happen in high risk high return ventures. Say for example, you divided your money into 10 separate investments and on average, 6 made a return but 4 made nothing or you even lose your $50 on a few of those. In this way, your returns are covering your losses and still making you a return over and above your losing choices. Of course, you don’t WANT to lose money, but hedging your bets and understanding the approach you can clearly make far superior returns with small investment seed capital, to the stock market or real estate.

By: Martin Thomas

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When you are investing on the Stock Market it can be a fine line between trading and gambling. If anybody knew exactly what the Stock Market was going to do they would make millions of dollars everyday but not even Warren Buffet knows EXACTLY which way the market will go every time.

So how can we decipher between Stock Market Gamblers and Traders? Or do you think there simply isn’t any difference? I would like to look at one basic investment strategy that I believe is the main difference between Stock market traders and stock market gamblers.

Basic Investment Strategies – RULE No.1

‘You must know when you are going to get OUT of a trade BEFORE you get INTO the trade, no matter what happens to the stock eg. It goes UP, DOWN or SIDEWAYS.’

I believe that this basic investment strategy is the main difference between Stock Market Gamblers and Traders.

Why is this rule so important? Investing is about having a great plan or basic investment strategy and sticking to it. The last thing you need is to let your emotions take control of your investing. As soon as you let your emotions get involved you are beginning to gamble with your money. It is vital that you create a set of rules that you will follow no matter what happens.

If you are confused by the idea of knowing when to get out before you get in then I will quickly explain what I mean by this. When you enter a trade you should be aware of every possible outcome eg. The share price will rise, fall, move sideways or a combination of all of these. You need to know exactly what you are going no matter which direction the stock ends up going. This is an incredibly basic Investment strategy but you would be surprised at how many people enter into the market with no idea of what they are trying to do. This is my definition of a Stock Market Gambler.

So my advice is to start creating some rules that will become the basis of your perfect investment strategy. Once you have created the rules you should plot out a plan that you can follow and then most importantly you need to stick to the plan. Best of luck and happy investing.

By: Banjo Smyth

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