TSME #019: Real Estate vs. The Stock Market

The first strategy the Wealthy Investor program teaches for creating wealth and residual income is covered call writing, which means buying a stock and selling an option to someone else. There are three different types of covered calls you can employ depending on market conditions: out of the money calls, at the money calls, and in the money calls. Tyrone Jackson explains all three in detail at WITradeschool.com. Most billionaires are associated with stocks and play the stock market game. However many investors get started in real estate. Most people identify with the concepts of renting out property or flipping a house. Real Estate is tangible, but when you buy and sell a stock you don’t have to fix toilets or evict tenants. Tyrone Jackson’s student Christopher Haro got started in real estate but has since fallen in love with the stock market. Christopher Haro was born and raised in Los Angeles. His father worked at Boeing for over 48 years. He, himself, wanted to start working young to earn extra cash for playing video games down at the arcade. So he washed dishes and did whatever he could at his Uncle’s restaurant and he started his own little business mowing the lawns in his neighborhood. Now, Mr. Haro is an accountant, a CPA, by trade. He had tried the stock market before the dot.com era by purchasing some options of AOL. It was a couple months before the market imploded and he lost all his money. He swore he would never invest in the stock market again. At the time he also owned real estate. He owned a rental property and his own house. His goal was to have 20 rental properties. It is expensive to buy real estate in Los Angeles so Chris started doing his research on out of state properties. He bought property in places like Idaho and North Carolina. He figured that having five $100,000 properties would be less risky than one $500,000 property in LA where he would be at a huge loss if that one tenant didn’t pay on time. Chris doesn't remember who turned him on to Covered Call Writing, but it was hard to believe that the money was that easy. He had started making the trades on his own but didn't have the discipline and the patience for it. As an accountant, he would simply see a loss when the stock went down instead of looking at the net positive. Now with his education from the Wealthy Investor he can see the opportunities in his trades no matter what the market does. The best trade he made in his first year of trading was with Nike. He had bought 400 shares and kept selling covered calls. Wash, rinse, repeat. When the shares were finally bought away from him he had made $2,000 just making the same trade over and over again. Chris says that you don’t have to be good at math, it’s just coming in and doing it and learning the system and being consistent. The hardest part is the emotion and dealing with it when the market drops. Coming to class, he learns what to do when the market changes and how to benefit from it. This shifted his thought process. You too can shift your thought process about building wealth. Visit TheWealthyInvestor.net to change your financial world today. As Tyrone Jackson says, “You don’t know how much money is out there with your name on it.”