Spend some time thinking about why you are considering investing in stocks. Are you investing to build an emergency fund for the future, to buy a home, or pay for college expenses? Are you investing for retirement?  It's a good idea to write out your motivation. Try quantify it in dollars, considering how much money you need for your goals. For example, purchasing a home might require a down-payment and closing costs of $40,000. Retirement might cost $1 million or more. Most people have more than one investment goal. Those goals often vary in priority and timing. For example, you may want to buy a house in three years, pay for a child’s education in fifteen years, and retire in thirty-five years. Documenting your investment goals will clarify your thinking and help you focus on the goal. Your investment goals will determine the time during which your investments will remain in place. The longer investments can stay in place, the greater the probability of positive returns.  If your goal is to have money to buy a house in three years, your time frame, or "investment horizon" is relatively short.  If you are investing to fund your retirement 30 years from now, your investment horizon is much longer. The S&P 500 is a collection of 500 of the most widely held stocks. There were only four ten year periods between 1926 and 2011 where the S&P 500 as a whole produced a loss. For holding periods of fifteen years or more, there were no losses. If you bought and held these stocks over the long term, you would have made money. By contrast, holding the S&P 500 for just a single year would have produced a loss 24 times in the 85-year period between 1926 and 2014. Over a short period, stock are extremely volatile. As a consequence, investing for short time periods is riskier than investing for longer time periods. You can gain more if you've invested well. You can lose everything if you've invested poorly. All investments have risks because there is always a possibility that you will lose some of your money. Stocks are no different.  How much risk you are willing to take is called your "risk tolerance." Before making any investment, ask yourself, "How much money am I willing to lose in the short-term in order to make more money over a long period of time?"  In most cases, the more risk you take, the higher the potential return. But, there is also a greater likelihood of loss. One of the first rules of investing is to avoid losses when possible. Do not take on investment risk when it is unnecessary to reach your goals. Use one of the many free investment or retirement calculators found on the internet. Calculate the rate of return that you must earn and the investment needed to reach your goals.  For example, imagine you need $30,000 in three years, but can only invest $500 per month. You will need to earn a whopping 38.2% on your investment each of the three years to reach this goal. This means that you must accept an extraordinary amount of risk. Most people would consider such investments a bad decision. A better choice would be to extend your time horizon to four and one-half years. This would require a much more achievable and safe return rate 0f 4.8%. You could also increase your monthly investment from $500 to $775. This would let you reach your $30,000 goal with a realistic rate of return of 5.037%. Or, you could reduce your financial goal of $30,000 in 3 years to $19,621 in three years while investing the same $500 a month. To reach this goal, your return would only need to be 6% each year.
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One-sentence summary -- Set your goals. Determine your time frame. Understand your risk tolerance. Calculate the investments needed to reach your goals.

Q: To do so, press ⊞ Win+PrintScreen to save the screenshot directly to a file. This will save you from having to paste it into Paint first. The file is located in the Screenshots folder of your Pictures folder. The folder will be created if it does not yet exist.  If the previous method does not work, try Fn+⊞ Win+PrintScreen. in Windows 7 or Vista. To do so, press ⎙ Print Screen. It may be abbreviated, and is typically located between the F12 key and the Screen Lock key. You may need to press the Function or Fn key if you're using a laptop. The image will be copied to the clipboard. You must paste the image into a document in order to view it. To do so, click the window whose image you want to capture, then press Alt+PrintScreen, or on some laptops Alt+Fn+PrintScreen. You will still need to paste it before you can save the image.
A: Take a full-screen screenshot in Windows 10 or 8. Take a full-screen screenshot Take a screenshot of the active window only.

Article: This will contain the project name, the architect's name, address, and contact information, the project location, and the date.  This page is very similar to the cover of a book. Many cover sheets will also include a drawing of the finished product, showing you what the house will look like after it is constructed and landscaped. These pages will include an index of plan sheets, and sometimes their contents. It also will include an abbreviation key, a scale bar with the plan scale indicated, and occasionally design notes. This will have an area map, with an enlarged location map, usually giving enough information to locate the project site from nearby towns or highways. This sheet is not found in all sets of plans. These pages usually are numbered starting with a "C", such as Sheet "C 001", "C 002," and so on. The site plans will contain several sheets which show the following information:   Topographical information. This will provide the builder with information regarding the topography, or the slopes or flatness, of the site. The demolition plan. This sheet (or sheets) will show the structures or features which will be demolished on the site prior to grading for construction. The items which will not be demolished, such as trees, will be noted in the keynotes. The site utility plans. These sheets will indicate the location of existing underground utilities, so that they can be protected during excavation and construction.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Read the cover sheet. Read the plan index. Read the location plan. Read the site plans.

Article: The weather starts to cool down during the fall, so you should wear darker, more neutral colors. Avoid bright and light colors such as whites, pastels, and neons. The colors that are most suitable for fall are:  Dark colors, such as burgundies, navies, and plums. Neutral colors such as browns, grays, and blacks. Earth tones, such as browns, tans, beiges, forest greens, dark greens, and olive greens. Warm colors based on the fall leaves, such as creams, gold, bronze, dark reds, and dark oranges. There are certain patterns that are more associated with fall than others. Fabrics with bright, cheerful tropical flowers (such as hibiscus) will remind people more of summer or spring, and may look out of place on a cool, rainy, fall day. Plaid and houndstooth are perfect for fall, however; they are more somber and reserved, which blends well with the cool weather. Consider wearing dark florals instead. An example of dark florals is anything with a black, navy, plum, or burgundy background. Flowers that work well with fall include roses, thistle, and pansies. You want something that can keep you warm. Avoid linens, silks, and light cottons. Not only are they too light for fall, but they are also often associated with warmer weather. The fabrics that are the most suitable for fall are:  Leather, suede, and pleather or imitation leather Flannel, felt, and wool Denim, corduroy, and chambray Cotton Lace
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Choose the right colors. Choose the right patterns. Choose the right fabrics.