Types Of Investments To Be Aware Of

Stocks are the thing that go up the most, most of the time.

Fixed income can range from very simple and safe to very complex and risky. It's important to know which is which.

Usually a good diversifier for stocks but going heavy into gold out of some sort of doomsday fear, hasn't worked very often.

Energy, industrial metals, agriculture and other precious metals.

These are for diversifying against equity holdings. They can be very complex, many don't do what they purport to do, it takes a fair bit of study to understand these.

It's difficult to make a lot of money here without leverage.

This is probably worth learning about even if you never plan on speculating here. And I would think of it as speculation.

Things like money markets and certificates of deposits.