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Investing in the stock market takes sharp. When the market collapsed, the investor could do a number of alternatives. At least there are three things that can be done.

According to the President Director of  in his speech he, Tuesday, March 31, 2009, the third it is holding investments, add, or resell the shares owned.

The first option, namely to hold or not to sell stocks or mutual funds that have been, says Eco, can be done on the basis of the stock market will always volatile. Although there are still doubts about how long this condition will persist, but those who have the horizon (period) a fairly long investment still continue to believe that in time the market will come back later improved.

Option to survive are also based on an attempt to avoid the presence of the realization of losses in the hope of improved market conditions. Those who survive are aware, the purpose of investing in stocks for the long term so that it is still able to be patient waiting for improved global economic conditions and market conditions.

“Patience in sticking is indispensable in investing in the stock market and became one of the keys to successful investing,” he said.

The second option, i.e. purchase or increase investments in stocks or mutual funds. Investors who take both options decrease happens trust are temporary and still consider the stock market as an attractive investment for the long term.

Correction and a decrease in prices happened precisely be the opportunity to buy a stock or mutual fund shares at a cheaper price. Investors are also looking at potential investment more attractive results if the market back improved. For investors who already have an asset allocation strategy, drop in stock prices will be used by investors to increase its investments according to the strategy sets the allocation has been set. This is often referred to as the process of re balancing portfolios.

The third option, to sell back shares or mutual funds. This effort is usually made the investor to avoid bigger losses. Most investors are aware of the risk was not appropriate profit and timing the market is trying to. Usually the implications or sale of stock or mutual fund investors realize the losses, it is, do the other instruments, switching to and lost the opportunity if the market back up before it had time to buy.

Most people know that investing in mutual funds, not what they do. Take advice from someone at a bank or perhaps a friend and throw money into a fund. Sometimes this strategy works, but not most of the time it is.

If you withdraw your money in a fund, you trust someone to invest in the stock market for you. For this reason you should be sure that nobody knows what he or she does. In addition, we ensure that the responsible person wants is too large to manage your money for you. Certificates of investment expenses “hidden” in the sense that they help you pay a fee in advance, but a percentage of the amount of money in your account. If this percentage is too high, you’d better stock-picking one blindly.

Here are five tips for choosing funds based on the common law.

1. Keep them small. In general, expenses, do not spend more than 1%, there should be a national capital. You should never invest money in a fund as well as the cost of “load”, which is an added cost is still ridiculous charge. Not invest in funds that charge load, the funds are for suckers.
2. Check the asset base. Fund managers know that many property investment. If they succeed much money to start investing in shares they do not like much, but they must invest in all cases, the alternative would be money everywhere. There is no reason to invest in a fund of over $ 5 billion in assets. E ‘preferably less than 2 billion U.S. dollars in general.
3. Consider an index fund. This is a fund, a stock index like the S & P 500 tracks. To fund manager buys only stocks that occur in the index. As this is not much work, taxes are much lower. Although this method is simple, has been shown to perform better than mutual funds. Some funds are raised FSMKX Performance Index (Fidelity S & P 500) and VIMSX (Vanguard S & P Midcap 400th
4. Evaluation of the fund’s strategy. If you have a long term, look for aggressive funds that invest in small cap investments, international equities and equities more risky in general. At high risk tends to produce high performance long term. If they are reluctant to take risks, consider an S & P Fund 500 index.
5. Keep them small. I’ve said? Well, I’ll talk again. This is where most people get confused. Clearly they do not pay up or pay too many fees for mutual funds.

For more information on mutual funds can be found in research funds.