How to Invest Today

Investing in the stock market can be extremely profitable and a great place to grow your wealth. There are 3 ways which investors can make money off of a stock that they own.

1. The Stock goes up

The first way to make money in the stock market is through appreciations. This is a pretty simple idea; you buy a stock at a low price and sell it for more later on. While stocks in general tend to go up in the long term you can increase the odds of making money through appreciation by buying stocks that are both fundamentally and technically strong.

2. Dividend Income

Another way which stocks make money for their investors is through something called a dividend. Dividends are basically monthly payments to investors from the company which are supposed to represent a percentage of the company’s earnings.

For instance if a stock has a 10% dividend yield ratio then one would expect to receive 10% of their money back through dividends each and every year. For example if you invest $100,000 into this stock you would expect to receive $10,000 in passive cash flow off of the stock every year, and hopefully this passive income will increase over time as the stock appreciates and the company grows.

3. Selling Call Options

Another way to make money off of stock market investments is by selling options. These are just contracts which give the buyer the right to buy a stock at a specific price on or before a specific date. For example if you own stock XYZ and it is trading at $50 you can sell the $55 call option on it and make a premium from that, by doing so you actually risk getting called out of the position at $55.

So if the stock goes up to $56 or higher you would get called out and miss the potential profit. If the call option expires before the stock goes above the strike price, or in this case $55 it means you will keep the stock and the added premium from the option.

You do take on a little extra risk when selling options but the option premium you take in may justify that risk.

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