What do you expect from the best investment advisor?

Of course you expect your investment adviser that he shares the best for your stock portfolio will recommend. But …. If your adviser recommends you to buy shares, it will be done by another investor who told his adviser that he has had to sell those shares. Either your adviser is good and the other wrong, or vice versa.

If we assume that there are a lot of advisers, all their work to honor and conscience to do, then we say that the average, honest adviser in 50% of the cases a proper guidance.

And he gets a nice amount for each year. From his boss. Of the commission you paid. Did he have you ever thank you for? A good cigar or something?

And that also applies to such investment adviser. Indeed, if the bank really this kind of predictions for the long term could do, why would they stabbing their surplus money in simple things like a hypotheekje to your house for a few percent? No, your mortgage is pretty stable and you pay the interest anyway. That remains a few years. But the bank knows too well that for the stock market is certainly not true.

Who is the best?

In short, if you could even have a good, reliable system for the direction of the stock market in the short term would be, and if you agree all the knowledge that you could gather itself could act, who would the best advisor?

Someone who knows everything about you.

Someone your circumstances in detail has

Someone who your rights and obligations well.

Someone with real knowledge of affairs.

A very important alternative to an investment advisor is a coin of 1 euro. (other currencies also work).

You think a stock XYZ seems nice. You can make yourself with the following request: I throw the coin up and see how it falls down. Is the top 1 than to buy, the other side up or sell you Whether you do nothing.

This strategy is statistically as good as an investment adviser. But is it a lot cheaper.

Are there any other alternatives?

Sure. There are good, even very good trading systems for equities and options available. But they can predict the future? Now, this was only true. This type of game is similar to the weersvoorwachting. The shorter the period of the forecast, the better it will be. That same goes for that game (better is expected to speak of systems) for shares.