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How would you invest $500k at 30?

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Re: How would you invest $500k at 30?

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I'd look for an industrial warehouse in the Midwest with strong credit tenants and long-terms leases (e.g. like a publicly traded company serving a utility function).

You'd have to start with a small property, given your capital. But returns are stable and can be relatively high -- 9-15%.

Re: How would you invest $500k at 30?

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Imagine my surprise this morning when I created a throwaway account to ask HN how I can actively invest $500K, go to the “Ask HN” tab to see how these posts are usually formulated, and someone’s asked almost the exact same question (I’m a couple years younger than 30 and I’m looking at small businesses).

Re: How would you invest $500k at 30?

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Do you have time to watch the market? If you want to go with aggressive growth, and $500K you are willing to risk, then options trading. Put $20K per trade and it should double in a year.

Any suggestions on how to properly learn how to do this?

The easiest way to do it is follow my plans. The harder way to do it is watch the stock market and look into technical analysis. It takes a while but if you start with a small account you can look for an edge and utilize it. It takes a while and you have many losses early on and then over time you narrow it down to what works. I'm not sure if anyone can do it the same way I do but I don't know of a better way to answer your question.

Main items we focus on are price-action and price-volume. In essence, for every minute the price goes up, what's the volume? For every penny the stock goes up, what's the volume? For every 100,000 shares what's the change in price?200k? 300k? 1m? and so on. Also, weighted factors for all the different indicators, MA/SMA/CCI/RSI/VWAP being of most pertinence. Pitch fork trends weighted at a lower level. Also several other proprietary indicators based on stock correlation (i.e. BABA vs AMZN, if AMZN is moving down, BABA should as well because of what it relies on). Sentiment Analysis to look for bad news.

Re: How would you invest $500k at 30?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any suggestions on how to properly learn how to do this?

The easiest way to do it is follow my plans. The harder way to do it is watch the stock market and look into technical analysis. It takes a while but if you start with a small account you can look for an edge and utilize it. It takes a while and you have many losses early on and then over time you narrow it down to what works. I'm not sure if anyone can do it the same way I do but I don't know of a better way to answ…

OP - tread carefully, this "advice" is from an individual afflicted with a case of Dunning-Kruger.
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