Why have Investment Plans for the Stock Market

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Why have investment plans for the stock market?



If you do not have an investment plan in the stock market you are

subject to impulses, urges, hunches, premonitions, strong

feelings, greed, panic, fear, indecision, and just plain

foolishness. In my opinion, without a plan, without that clear

conception of a total stock market investment strategy, the

chances of successful investing in the stock market are pretty

slim.



A stock market investment plan is a means for you to follow a

certain arrangement or procedure, it is a method of action that

will aid you to ensure a successful investment in the stock

market. With a concrete definite plan of action, directed toward

a predetermined goal, the most difficult aspect of successful

investing in the stock market is already accomplished. The proven

stock market investment plan has already done the work for you,

and the predetermined goals that you set for yourself will give

you the desired power to fulfill them. Don't underestimate

yourself and the power within you to accomplish what you set out

to do. Set your stock market investment goals high, and steadily

aim for them. Make up your mind you are going to fulfill them and

get excited about them, and your goals will become a reality!

(And sometimes, it only takes someone to tell you what you

already know you can do!)



For me, (and, for any of you that have read and are acting on my

book) successful investing in the stock market means only one

thing! Money! I want money from all my stock market investments,

and I want money sent to me every week of the year, for the rest

of my life. It's a simple plan, but I'm a simple man. Nothing

tricky here! If a company wants my investment dollars, they must

pay me for them in the form of dividends every quarter. And if

they want me to continue investing in their company, they will

have to increase their dividend to me every year. I will have

faith in their company as long as they continue rewarding my

faith with more money! It's an arrangement that's non-negotiable.

I guess you could call it a form of security analysis, a Jerry

Maguire 'show me the money' form of security analysis.



Not only do the companies have to raise their dividend year after

year, they have to show price appreciation in the market place on

a historical basis. An investment plan should be geared toward

receiving both ever-increasing dividends, as well as stock

appreciation. After all, isn't that what investing in the stock

market should be all about?



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–Roy L. Smith



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Charles M. O'Melia is an individual investor with 40 years of

experience and passion for the stock market. The author of the

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