| When you invest in the stock market of any country | | | | connections and advance information. For example |
| you want to grow with the economy - the economy | | | | take the commodity stocks - Iron and Steel. After |
| of America, China, Europe or any emerging market. | | | | decades of bust cycle they started their boom phase |
| When you invest in the stock of a particular | | | | in 2002. Anyone who has invested in steel stocks in |
| company You wish you could grow with the | | | | 2002 would be sitting on huge fortune today. The |
| company - you wish you were with Microsoft in late | | | | same steel stocks which were considered stagnant |
| 1980s when it started to grow you wish you were | | | | by 1960 is one the vibrant stocks today. |
| with Internet companies in 1995 when they started | | | | Another way to amass great fortune in Stocks is to |
| to grow (you also wished you could have gotten out | | | | find the really outstanding companies and staying with |
| of them by 2000). | | | | them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating |
| You make the maximum fortune in a stock by | | | | market. This you need not even worry about buying |
| discovering and investing in some young enterprise | | | | the stock cheap at the lower end of business cycle |
| which might later grow into a behemoth. A basic | | | | and sell it high at the times of boom. I would give an |
| study of the stock market of any country will show | | | | example of APPLE Inc. Those who have studied the |
| that two very different methods have been used to | | | | growth of Apple from McIntosh era of 1980's to the |
| amass great fortunes. Most of the big fortunes and | | | | bust cycle of 1990's and the great revival during |
| many small ones were made largely by betting on | | | | current period will observe this point. You would be |
| the business cycle. Buying stocks in bad times and | | | | today making enormous profits on APPLE Inc. Stock |
| selling them in good created huge wealth. This is | | | | if you had stayed with it even during the troubled |
| particularly true for those with good financial | | | | times of 1990s. |