Posted on February 10, 2010 - by AK71

A capital question: how much to have or how much to use?

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I remember reading a book titled “The Swiss Family Robinson” in my school going days. It was one of many classics such as “Black Beauty” and “Call of the Wild”. It is very strange but most people who are younger than me by just, say, 6 or 7 years have never read these books before. Classics, they are. Anyway, I digress.

The book in question is about how a family got shipwrecked on an island and had to to use whatever was available there to build a life for themselves and over time, they did quite well. Very resourceful family. The father would praise his children if they came up with a good idea by saying: “That’s a capital idea!”. I have yet to come across anyone in real life who would use the word “capital” in the same way. It might be a very English or a very archaic usage since the book was written in the 19th century. Now, that brings me to the topic of this post: capital. Specifically, capital for investing in the stock market.

Now to do my impression of Forrest Gump: “My mama told me that I must pick the right people when I want to talk about stocks which are undervalued as not everyone has the ability to buy.” Very true but it is hard to identify the “right” people, you might agree.

So, there is an advantage about sharing ideas in a blog. Visitors who come to my blog are probably interested in investing and making money in the stock market and probably have the means to do so. I hope I am right and not being delusional on this point though. Read more…

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