Richardcyoung.com

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin & Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity & Wellington Since 1971
  • Hillsdale College
  • Babson College
  • Contact Us

Emerge from the Investment War a Winner

September 28, 2018 By Richard C. Young

By StockEU @ Shutterstock.com

The simple act of avoiding major losses by diversifying my portfolio and focusing on value and compound interest has allowed me to emerge from the investment war as a winner. It can work for you too if you have the patience and endurance for such a strategy. This method is all about risk management, something I wrote about in December of 2003.

Dead Aim…

“When the difference between life and death can be counted in milliseconds, you need every advantage you can get. Which is why SureFire developed its Special Operations series to be the best extreme-duty tactical illumination tools in the world.”

Risk Management Defined

When SureFire asked operators what they wanted, the company was told a light that could survive a halo insertion or a midnight raid on a crack house. Operators wanted SureFire to deliver a light bright enough to find and blind suspected adversaries. SureFire handhelds can be used as non-lethal “force options.” As the company likes to say, “Shine a SureFire in a suspect’s eyes, and he’s out of the fight.” The company understands that you might not be a Special Forces operator hunting for terrorists in an Afghanistan cave to benefit from the retina-searing white light produced by the 500-lumen M6 Millennium. And you may not need a SureFire weapon light for your Heckler & Koch, Colt, or SIG submachine gun, but, then again, you may. But Special Forces operators around the world take dead aim with SureFire illumination tools as the ultimate in risk-management tools.

Invest for Consistency

Every Special Ops fighter knows that on any mission risk management is the first order of duty. It’s a basic military tenet that also works as a basic financial tenet. Why then do so few investors seem to know anything or care about risk management? Usually because of (1) greed, (2) lack of training, and (3) pressure from salesmen, who account for most of the assets held by individual investors. I’m often shocked when I hear what an investor owns in his or her retirement portfolio. For the most part, investors own portfolios of securities that have been sold to them. It’s true. There’s no way to sugarcoat the deal: Most investors simply own a pile of rubbish.

For four decades, I have been a consistently successful investor, practicing my basic investment tenet of diversification and patience built on a foundation of value and compound interest. I’m sure you can dig up folk who will at least tell you that they make more money than does Dick Young. Perhaps this is the case, but my conservative, balanced approach is suitable for investors who want to avoid debacles and emerge from the investment wars with a comfortable nest egg in retirement.

Originally posted on Youngsworldmoneyforecast.com.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • The 6 Basic Investing Principles That Will Make You a Winner
  • Investing to Win the War
  • A Guaranteed Investment
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Richard C. Young
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • Most Secure Border in History - July 3, 2025
  • Can Peace Hold with a Defiant Iran? - July 3, 2025
  • Democrats Aiming for Self Destruction? - July 2, 2025

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • The Forgotten America
  • Biden Wants to Gut the Tax Benefit of 401K Plans
  • Who Will Pay the Price for LEDs?
  • “I’m Having Major Surgery Tomorrow,” He Said
  • RAPPOPORT: War Applauded by “Stone Cold Utopians”
  • America’s Silent Army with 423M Guns
  • A NEW CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: Rick Scott Finally Gives the GOP Something to Run On
  • Escape From the City: You’re Going to Like What You See
  • Gold’s 50-Year Price Explosion
  • The Four Most Important Words in Investing

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Just Don’t Call It “Obliterated”
  • What Is Tim Walz's Connection to China?
  • A True America First Foreign Policy
  • "Surrounded by an Armed Country"
  • NYC's Mamdani: The More You Know, the Worse It Gets
  • China’s Silent Strike: Weapon Targets Electrical Infrastructure
  • The Ugliness of Political Warfare
  • Naturalized Criminals Set to Lose American Citizenship
  • Survive and Thrive June 2025: The Lay of the Land: Who Can You Trust?
  • Every Family Should Own at Least One Shotgun: Here Are Three

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Happy Independence Day!
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio
  • A Bazooka Fired at Private Equity
  • US Trade Deficit Widens in May
  • Job Gains Light Up the Labor Market
  • U.S. Eases Chip Software Restrictions, Boosting Tech Trade with China
  • NYC, Crypto, ESG, the Haves and the Have-Yachts
  • Trump Announces Vietnam Trade Deal
  • Nuclear Surpasses Coal in U.S. Energy Mix for the First Time
  • Grand Theft Cargo: California’s Cargo Thefts Thrive

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Happy Independence Day!
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio
  • A Bazooka Fired at Private Equity
  • NYC, Crypto, ESG, the Haves and the Have-Yachts
  • “Behind Every Blade of Grass”
  • Beware the ‘Democratization’ of Investing
  • Survive and Thrive June 2025: The Lay of the Land: Who Can You Trust?
  • Dividends: “Because It Works”
  • “Surrounded by an Armed Country”
  • Every Family Should Own at Least One Shotgun: Here Are Three

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

My Key West Garden Office

Your Retirement Life: Traveling the Efficient Frontier

Live a Long Life

Your Survival Guy’s Mt. Rushmore of Investing Legends

“Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”

Copyright © 2025 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives