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To: Steve Felix who wrote (117839)	2/5/2014 8:45:09 AM
From: bruwin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 118717

Do I detect a touch of sarcasm there Steve ? ... well, no problem, you're perfectly entitled to your observations and interpretations. I think we should go back to my original posts on this topic of young people taking advantage of their current age and using that to obtain personal financial benefit via any means that utilizes the principle of Compounded Gain. I attempted to reply to gizwick's post, #117825, where I assumed he was referring to a relatively younger generation " ... that many of our younger people just want to spend and not save ... (and) would rather have a Coach purse than save anything for their retirement. It is definitely the me generation" Yes, I started off with what I believe would be their easiest option and foray into the stock market, viz. putting a portion of their monthly salary into a Market Index related ETF. In so doing they wouldn't even have to know that much about the "inner workings" of a stock market. (I have, in fact, given that same advice over the years to younger colleagues of mine). Seeing as an ETF can be traded in much the same way as any stock in terms of selling or buying it, they would do well, IMO, to employ a reasonable Stop Loss strategy to mitigate risk to a certain extent. Should the young investor want to take it a step further and get a greater personal understanding of how the market works and how to better analyze individual companies then I, personally, could think of no better source to approach than Warren Buffett. I have given a reference as to what a young person may want to read up on the subject. That publication is extremely well presented and very easy to follow, and is based on the strategy that Buffett has adopted over many years and which has contributed to his phenomenal investing success. I also put forward several examples that I've personally been involved with and where actual percentage returns have been achieved. In gizwick's case (See posts #117823 & 117824) he achieved a compounded gain of over 30% over a period of 12 years, ... so 20% may not be that extreme a target to achieve. But there again, nothing is an absolute certainty where potentially high returns are concerned because with that must come some degree of risk, ....as I'm sure even a young person, or a caveman, would probably agree with.