What to invest in to secure your future?

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Many people keep their money in banks thinking its safe. Well, thats actually a scam.

Inflation almost always beats whatever bank gives you, so you are actually constantly losing money by keeping it in a bank.

Since money constantly loses value, it is pointless to save money. You are actually just losing money over time if you dont spend it.

So the best things to invest in are things which gain value over time.

Money loses value constantly, but things like gold and land tend to gain value over time.

The basic principle is to buy things which gain value over time and sell them later after they have gained value.

If you buy a land and build a house on it, you can gain money by both renting the house for decades, and then finally selling both land and house for a higher price than you paid to get them.

You can also rent land itself in case building a house on it is too big of a deal.

Its important to buy good and desirable land.

The only problem with land is that some countries have taxes you must pay if you own land. This can affect profit.

Gold gains value over time, which is why its also a good investment and works well against inflation.

I dont know what else would be a good investment.

If you are good at predicting which currency will rise in value, you can buy that currency, but thats just a huge gamble since no currency is a finite resource.

Finite resources are those which are usually guaranteed to increase in value if they are desirable.
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You can also buy lots of land and sell it gradually over time, instead of selling all at once.
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Invest in companies best poised to build nuclear power plants around silicon Valley. 

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Almost right, buy land; but don't rent out residential space.

Government treats landlords like a servant class. A tenant can screw you over for years and get away with it.


Lease light industrial and commercial space. Companies tend to be more professional and they don't have a bunch of absurd 'rights' such as "I can beat the shit out of the bathroom fixtures and you are duty bound to come fix it"
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Investing in companies is a good idea if you know they will grow.
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Government treats landlords like a servant class
It depends on where you live, but yeah, I wouldnt wanna be a landlord if they are going to impose bunch of regulations on me.

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Gold, gold funds, silver, platinum, S&P 500 index fund such as VOO or SPY, Treasury Inflation Protected securities (TIPS)
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Just invest period financially besides having a 9-5. I highly recommend investing retiring the 9-5 unless you've found a passion working in the corporate industry.

Otherwise there are better ways to use your time, mind and energy.

Real estate, financial markets, stock markets, currency markets, commodities and indices.

For example, binary options, you can make $500.00 investing in options around 1-2 hours. That's 3 days of the 9-5 for that kind of money upwards of the minimum wage in the states.
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silver
A good choice in terms of buying price, but I am worried who to sell it to.

Because silver is cheaper than gold, which means you have to buy more of it and sell more of it to make same profit.

I dont know how much do people want silver. I know gold is easy to sell, especially in form of jewelry.
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There are always merchants who deal in silver and other precious metals. If you want to keep the investment digitally, there are funds such as iShares Silver Trust (SLV).
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There are always merchants who deal in silver and precious metals. 
I guess. I am just worried that they are not as common as those who buy gold, or with as good reputation. Number of buyers drives price up once I need to sell some of it.

Now, there is no reason to choose just one type of commodity, to be clear. I think investing in all of them: land, gold, silver... could be much better than investing in just one. Its easier to sell 50 silver necklaces than 1000 of them. Easier to find customers when you have variety.

Likewise, selling each individually and gradually pays off more than selling on mass scale and all at once.
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you can make $500.00 investing in options around 1-2 hours
Profit depends on how much money you start with.

Sure, if you have lots of money, you can make 3000$ a day in terms of profit, but not many people have the amount of money required to achieve that.
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Nothing in this life is certain. What you probably meant is how to low the risk for your future.

Gold is the best bet for sure, but I prefer invest in land either for building or farming.

Education is also an investment so I recommend to devote some money to buy books and online courses.
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You can do it starting with a $1. This is binary options I'm talking about. Not regular stock investing.
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What you probably meant is how to low the risk for your future.
Historically, gold and land has been proven to be good, the best, lowest risk investment there is.

Like, its almost impossible that gold will be cheaper 10 years later than it is now, given the amount of money governments print each year and how inflation constantly lowers value of money compared to commodities.

Its about as safe as it gets when it comes to lowering risk while at the same time making decent profit.

Gold has increased in value by 10 times in past 25 years.

Money has lost value.  Money constantly loses value, and deflation is almost impossible to happen, nor is money likely to gain value compared to gold.

Gold is the best bet for sure, but I prefer invest in land either for building or farming
Doing both is good.

The smart move is always to get rid of money and replace it with gold, land, buisness and property.

There is no point at all to save large amounts of money, since it loses value constantly, where gold constantly gains value.

So investing in variety of commodities is best.

Some gold, some land, some buildings, some silver...

Farming plants isnt that great. Farming animals pays off much more.

So any profit you make from farming buisness, you invest in commodities like gold to gain even more profit later.

Education is also an investment
I have invested in education, but mostly in free education. Its pointless to pay large amounts of money to get knowledge, since unless that knowledge wont bring you much more money, better invest money in commodities instead of education.

Like, many forms of education can easily collapse. AI will replace most of translators, programmers and economists. Its not even a distant future anymore.
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You can do it starting with a $1. This is binary options I'm talking about. Not regular stock investing
I have yet to see someone using 1$ to make 500$ in one hour. Thats crazy lol
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I am buying the Kuwaiti dinar.  The Kuwaiti dinar is the strongest currency in the world, with 1 Kuwaiti dinar buying 274.05 Indian rupees (or, put another way, INR 1 equals 0.003 Kuwaiti dinars). Kuwait is located between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. It earns much of its wealth from being a leading global oil exporter.
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I am buying the Kuwaiti dinar.  The Kuwaiti dinar is the strongest currency in the world
The question is if its going to rise in value compared to dollar. If it will, then you will profit.

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It doesn't have to be one hour but it is faster than trading assets.
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Exercise and a healthy diet.
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@WyIted
Good idea. I heard about a stock market app that lets you copy the trades the senators and house reps make

Not sure if I want to get into the stock market yet… but it is interesting to me