Disclaimer: I’m not an Economist. The article below is based on my experience (ups and downs) in the market; hence, I take no responsibility for the following post.

Although the knowledgeable, professional investors can and do make money regularly on common stock, average investors are not equipped to accurately speculate on which stock will do well and which will not. If the average investor would invest in a common stock, leave it for 10 years, and not touch it, it probably would keep up with inflation and perhaps even gain 3 or 4 percent. But seldom do average investors do that. They generally try to move their investments from stock to stock in order to reap the maximum benefits. Since they are not professionals and their knowledge is limited, most end up making little and, in many cases, losing their initial investment.

Nowadays, we are on the edge of economic recession, and it will take more than a year to wake up from this crisis, hence, it is strongly recommended not to invest in real estate, free fall indexes (stocks) and oil.

In the very near future, at least when our index begins to go up and stabilize at normal points (i.e: Amman, ~ 7000), it will be strongly recommended to invest in the market, especially in a country like jordan.

In 2009, my prediction, real estate prices in Amman will fail miserably, also the market will go down to hell. In such situation it is really recommended to invest in and make a good profit in very short term investments.

Also, very soon (NOT NOW!), when the stock begins to stabilize especially after watching our big monsters in the market getting rid of their fear and put some cash in the stock market, at that time it is strongly recommended to invest in the stock, but not real estate companies, putting in consideration the profit announcements to be held in April 2009 where you can gain good profit and share prices will raise especially when buying shares at very low prices. so short term investors will make a very good fortune for the first time in the traditional stock era in hit-and-runaway methodology.