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Investing Basics

Get familiar with the fundamentals of investing, including risk vs. reward, diversification, and asset allocation.

What are smart diversification and asset allocation?

Every investor should begin with these two key ideas.

Smart Contract Diversification can be defined with the familiar phrase: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” This includes different types of investments in your portfolio that may help reduce your losses if tokenized stocks, for example, take a dive when other investments like tokenized bonds remain steady or go rising up.

Investors achieve smart contract diversification through a process called smart contract asset allocation, which is simply figuring out how your funds will be spread among different types of smart contract investments, such as tokenized stocks, tokenized bonds, tokenized cash, or even mutual credits. Smart Contract Diversification may reduce risk, but investors also want to earn a return, so they need to strike a balance between risk and reward. Lower risk investments carry less chance of a loss but typically provide lower returns. Investors seeking higher returns typically must take on greater risk.

This is what smart contract advisers mean by less counterparty risk tolerance: it’s about how much total risk is appropriate and comfortable for you. Keep in mind, that your risk tolerance will likely change over time as your age, life circumstances, counterparties involved, and financial situation change.

Are you a do-it-yourselfer?

Want some help?

No problem, we’ve got the accounts, tools, and help you need to invest on your terms.

A standard community account

With a standard Community brokerage or retirement account, you make all the investment decisions and execute all the trades. You pay no commissions, so your overall cost of investing will typically be the lowest.

No minimums to get started.

Smart Portfolios

Select your risk tolerance and easily invest in diversified, professionally selected portfolios of tokenized mutual funds or tokenized exchange-traded funds (ETFs). And you pay no trading commissions.

Get started with as little as ₿500 (mutual funds) or ₿5,000 (ETFs).

Automated investment management

Core Portfolios uses legacy models to build and manage your portfolio, based on your timeline, choices, and risk tolerance. It’s a simple, low-cost way to get professional portfolio management.

You can open an account with as little as ₿500, or choose from other professionally managed portfolios.

How do I place a DEX trade?

1. Locate the asset ticker symbol
Enter an asset name and get the ticker symbol

2. Check the price
Once you’ve found the ticker symbol of the company you’re interested in, check the price and gauge the historical graph for volatility or growth.

3. Select the order type
From the drop-down, choose Buy.

4. Execute
Select Preview to review your order and place your trade.