Cash: The Unconventional Best Investment

Cash: The Best Investment

With a bull market in equities, every expert has an investment idea. Real estate investors have their own recommendations; commodity bulls are calling for a market bottom and the best time to invest for the long-term. But if you ask me, the best investment opportunity today is to be in Cash. Yes, you read it right; cash is the best investment possible today and has been so for the past one year.

This article is an effort to prove to you, with various examples why you should guard every dollar you have today, rather than invest in any asset class. There are times when making money shouldn’t be your priority; the main goal should be to sit tight with your cash and do nothing. Don’t fall for the various experts who advocate being fully invested in stocks or other asset classes. Read on and decide for yourself if you agree with my analogy about holding cash.

Who else follows this strategy of holding cash?

Who would you rather follow? Jesse Livermore, Jim Rogers, and Warren Buffet, all extremely successful investors or some unknown expert who is on a business television channel, giving you the next hot tip or advice. As of September 30, Berkshire Hathaway, a Warren Buffet company had $56.16 billion in

And that is precisely what beats so many men in Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. Not many can always have adequate reasons for buying and selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.”Even Jim Rogers the famous commodity Guru advocates staying in cash most of the time until you find screaming bargains. Jim stays away from the markets for long periods of time, entering only when there is panic all around and assets develop