{"id":467154,"date":"2021-05-19T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financhill.com\/blog\/?p=467154"},"modified":"2021-05-12T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T02:23:58","slug":"how-to-10x-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financhill.com\/blog\/investing\/how-to-10x-your-money","title":{"rendered":"How To 10x Your Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Lynch first coined the term 10-bagger in his 1989 book <em>One Up on Wall Street<\/em>, and since then the phrase has become synonymous with any investment that returns a high multiple on its initial stake.<\/p>\n<p>The art of investing is concerned with making money, and it comes as no surprise that the goal of catching at least one multi-bagger in your trading career is a highly prized achievement.<\/p>\n<p>In this article we\u2019ll look at some important strategies you can employ to potentially reap these gains, and examine some real-world case studies of companies that have returned high profits in a relatively short amount of time.<\/p>\n<h2>How Can I Multiply My Money?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Companies that possess the potential to make tenfold gains are usually largely undervalued at some point&nbsp;in their life-cycle<\/strong> &#8211; but there are other telltale signs of a high-yielding company too. Luckily, we can identify some of the common traits that many of these firms share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, these companies are highly innovative &#8211; disruptive, even. They are future leaders in their field; it\u2019s just that few recognize this at the time<\/strong>,&nbsp;hence the investment opportunity they present.<\/p>\n<p>Second, there are some sectors that produce more multi-bagger companies than others. <strong>These are usually industries that are associated with high rates of growth i.e. Biotech firms, Cloud applications, Software-as-a-Service and the Fintech space.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, high-profit investments often enjoy early high cash-flows into the business. With the exception of development-stage drug companies, 10-bagger stocks are usually awash with cash, even if they aren\u2019t able to turn a profit with the money straight away.<\/p>\n<p>The cutting-edge nature of these enterprises attracts a lot of interest, and, with it, paying customers. Indeed, <strong>Amazon (<a href=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/search\/charts\/AMZN\">AMZN<\/a>) famously took <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1196256\/it-took-amazon-amzn-14-years-to-make-as-much-net-profit-as-it-did-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2017\/#:~:text=For%20a%20sense%20of%20scale,years%20as%20a%20public%20company.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14 years<\/a> before it was able to turn a profit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/widget\/fundamentals\/AMZN?defaultTimespan=quarter&amp;defaultType=earnings\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Two Of The Best Top Growth Stocks<\/h2>\n<h3>Ocugen<\/h3>\n<p>On paper, Ocugen is a biotech firm developing gene therapies to combat blindness and its related diseases. However, the company redirected its focus and expertise during the coronavirus pandemic, successfully producing a vaccine for COVID-19, and landing the rights to license the drug, Covaxin, to the lucrative U.S. market.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/widget\/charts\/OCGN?defaultOverlays=EMA5%2CEMA20%2CSMA20%2CSMA200&amp;defaultIndicators=RSI14&amp;periodGrouping=daily&amp;defaultSeries=candlesticks\" width=\"720\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Its vaccine also turned out to be potentially useful against several mutant variants of COVID-19 that made headlines around the world lately.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stock is already up 60-times from its price last December &#8211; but at its current valuation of just $2 billion, Ocugen represents the kind of&nbsp;moon shot that many multi-baggers are made of.<\/p>\n<h3>Takung Art<\/h3>\n<p>Another example of a high-performing stock is Takung Art, a Hong Kong-based online platform that specializes in selling artwork such as paintings, ceramics and sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>The company has seen its share price explode the last year, reaching highs of $74 in March 2021 from lows of just 77 cents in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/widget\/charts\/TKAT?defaultOverlays=EMA5%2CEMA20%2CSMA20%2CSMA200&amp;defaultIndicators=RSI14&amp;periodGrouping=daily&amp;defaultSeries=candlesticks\" width=\"720\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>It appears, however, that the firm has little fundamental worth, having posted fairly poor revenue and sales numbers for many years now<\/strong>. <strong>However, the recent high-profile interest in NFTs &#8211; non-fungible tokens &#8211; has sent its valuation skywards<\/strong>, with investors reckoning that the business will benefit from the blockchain technology at some point&nbsp;in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with this is that Takung Art doesn\u2019t yet use NFTs in its sales process, nor has it given any indication that it will do going&nbsp;forward. And despite its previously enviable growth performance, a bet on this already overvalued stock right now would be a swing in the dark &#8211; and one that would likely have little chance of paying off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How Can I Grow My Money Instantly?<\/h2>\n<p>Investing is ultimately geared toward making a profit. And yet, this can sometimes be achieved more consistently with less risky methods than a punt on a highly suspect growth stock you hadn\u2019t heard about until last week.<\/p>\n<p>The slow and steady path to riches is far more well-trodden and fraught with less risk. This doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t still keep an eye open for the next Ocugen &#8211; you should &#8211; but <strong>a strategy of compounded gains over the long-term, such as with dividend investing, for instance, can get you to the same place albeit taking a little while longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Extremely volatile investment vehicles might appeal to you as a purely speculative play on what are some of the most risky asset classes: cryptocurrencies could be considered one of these &#8211; with wild daily price swings of 30% or more seeming attractive to the fast-living day trader.<\/p>\n<p>But if you take this route prepare for larger losses too. <strong>Dogecoin has been in the news lately, with its backing by Elon Musk seeing its price multiply over 300 times since just a couple of months ago<\/strong>. But what goes up also comes down, and it\u2019s vital to know when to enter &#8211; and,&nbsp;more importantly,&nbsp;exit &#8211;&nbsp;these markets to ensure you make a profitable trade.<\/p>\n<h2>Speculate Only With Money You Can Afford To Lose<\/h2>\n<p><strong>For the tried and trusted way to make money in the stock market, it\u2019s hard to argue against investing in the blue-chip companies.<\/strong> These days, these are pretty much&nbsp;covered by the FAANG portfolio and many of the top indexes, such the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&amp;P500.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/widget\/charts\/SPY?defaultOverlays=EMA5%2CEMA20%2CSMA20%2CSMA200&amp;defaultIndicators=RSI14&amp;periodGrouping=daily&amp;defaultSeries=candlesticks\" width=\"720\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Following your favorite investing personality is also another way to go: Warren Buffett\u2019s <strong>Berkshire Hathaway (<a href=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/search\/charts\/BRK.B\">BRK.B<\/a>)<\/strong> fund will expose you to the best the market has to offer; and <a href=\"https:\/\/financhill.com\/blog\/investing\/cathie-wood-stocks-to-buy-now\">Cathie Wood\u2019s various ARK ETF\u2019s<\/a> will do the same &#8211; while still offering some surprises from her own idiosyncratic choices of up-and-coming enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps you could just hedge it: purchase a few random alt-coins on Binance or Coinbase, take a stake in the Nasdaq, and buy a put option on anything Elon Musk is hyping this month. 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