Getting started is not particularly difficult if you have a clear path in mind, otherwise you flounder left and right without doing anything, throwing your money away.
Investing needs to have specific goal in mind, whether it is to improve your economic situation or have funds to buy a house or to finance our business. We want to grow our capital so that we can then use it for ourselves.
Step n 1
Check your expenses and understand how you spend.
That is, where does the money go?
Understanding how you spend is the key to cutting unnecessary expenses and saving to start investing.
Let’s see it this way, the money you will save will be the gasoline for your investments.
And your investments are like a car, without petrol you just stop and look around.
Now, after understanding how you spend, you have to choose how to allocate your budget.
Many suggest the 50 30 20 rule, which is 50% necessary expenses, 30 discretionary expenses and 20% savings.
You need to be disciplined but this also depends on what fixed expenses you have, such as a home or car loan.
Try to apply yourself on your personal sphere and your situation.
Step n2
Pay off debts.
Having a debt such as a mortgage or car payment is not a big problem, because they are debt that we can consider useful.
At the end of the mortgage you will have a house, we can call it a real estate value.
On the contrary, having a mortgage for an iphone or a television is not very smart.
Surely you can avoid spending that money on consumer electronics or other things that can be considered useless.
In fact, every debt has a cost, and you are paying for your iPhone more than what it costs in the store.
The costs of the debts you have on whatever you have bought must be checked, and if possible pay off these debts ASAP.
Remember we need gasoline for our car.
Step n3
Create an emergency fund.
It seems counterintuitive, cutting debt to have more money to spend on financial assets and then creating a fund with money that we shouldn’t touch except in an emergency. Instead it makes sense, specifically for your psyche and for your safety.
In fact, you must be prepared to have fluctuations in your financial portfolio, with whatever asset you have formed it.
An emergency fund lets you know that in the event of any problem in your life, you can have a safety net to draw on.
Think about if you lose your job and don’t find one for a few months. How could you live and pay the bills?
3 to 6 months of funds to live without work can be a good start for creating an emergency fund.
You can also make it grow over time, shifting some of your earnings.
The emergency fund will also allow you to have extra security when you go to invest.
Your psyche must be ready to handle the stress of financial positions.
Step n4
Understand if you can invest on your own or if you need help
In this case, you have to be honest with yourself.
Do you know what to do? Can you handle it psychologically?
Investing is not easy and burning an account is very easy.
Your psyche is risk averse and you need to learn to manage it.
Your risk tolerance may be higher or lower, but the pain for losses is real.
You have to understand how to manage anxiety and this leads you to wonder if you can do it alone or if you need a consultant.
If you believe you can do it yourself, then a long, very long course of study awaits you.
But it will enrich you and allow you to understand a lot of things about our world and our society.
Step n 5
Start today, with discipline.
The earlier you start, the better, because with the passing of age the attention decreases and because the longer you stay on the market, the greater your chances of earning.
Discipline requires you not to do things rashly, to remain balanced as investments and never, ever make the famous ALL INNN on the set-up that everyone is pushing during a Hype- Assett period.
Because you will know that it is the stupidest thing to do, especially when everyone is on FOMO.
Hype is the enemy.