Who knows about investing?

I just recently fell into a good amount of money. I've been thinking about investing, stocks, mutual funds, and all that financial stuff, but I don't know where to begin. If anyone can tell me everything you know about this stuff, and give me some advice on what I should do, I'd greatly appreciate it.

In other words, tell me what I should do with a $1,000.

I'm a banker. There's usually is a one good universal formular for investing your money. Given you landed yourself a large amount: divide that amount by four. Investing one part in the safest source of investment like long term treasury bond (30 years), another portion in a less secured but more earning long term deposit. One more portion in Blue Chip company, and the last one in the most radical risky port in the stock market you can find. Ask you stock broker about the one that everybody tips it's gonna go skyrocket and sell it as soon as it does and buy the new one in th same category.
Good luck, you may need it for the last one.

If your playing with 10,000 or more try investing with money markets.

If your looking for great bonds earning up to 60% try european AAA bonds

If your looking for really big bucks, invest with options.
Put- if you think stock will fall

Call- if you think stock will go up

If your time horizon is long term (over 10 yrs, or so) I'd just go with Mutual Funds. They are safe (long term, they will go up of down with the market - so short term not as safe), easy, and hve a very good return. Stocks in general have returned about 10% over a long time frame, but pick a good mutual fund and you can find historical returns much better than that.

I'd suggest googling on "Mutual fund screener" and then pick criteria to get a good mutual fund. Search for a Morningstar 5 star rating, high return for 3 years or more, no load fund, and management that has been there at least 5 years. You may also want to stick to stock mutual funds. From this list pick one or a few with the better returns. There are lots of other criteria you can put in, so just choose whatever is important to you.

Congrats on the windfall, and good luck.

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