From the time you find a home you’re interested to buy, the next thing to do is to write an offer, which is not as plain as it may look. This is also the beginning of transacting a contract of sales with the seller. And this step will greatly help you achieve what you want, which is your goal. In writing an offer, you should always consider the seller’s reaction by putting yourself in his position. Imagining how they would react with the things you included on the offer will help you in attaining your goal.

Offering a price of purchase is not as easy as deciding on an amount and then stating that “This is the price I am going to buy your property.” No, definitely not as simple as that. The reason for this is that since huge amounts of dollars is concerned and because of the “hard” days today, you or the seller would not want to risk but rather, both would want to create higher possibilities in protecting your investments.

Not only the amount you are going to pay, but also other details of the purchase should be enclosed when writing an offer to purchase a real estate property. It should also constitute how you plan to pay for the property, the down payment you will provide, who will pay for certain closing costs, inspections that needs to be done, timetables, whether properties that are personal will be included, terms of cancellation, repairs you wanted performed, professional services utilized, the time you get hold of the home, and how you will solve if any disputes happen.

It is more complicated and involved compare to that of buying a car.

Taking half an hour for making decisions on writing an offer when buying a home will affect both yours and the seller’s life. It will affect your finances more than any other investment you did in the past. And it will also affect the seller’s finances, the reason why they will give a proper review on your offer. This is a crucial part for the rest, of both you and your client’s life.

It may seem that this is so familiar and fabricated, but all articles and books about real estates would tell you the same thing.

They all state these because it’s the fact.

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What is global macro? Before we look at how we trade its important to answer the question What is Global Macro? The best answer weve heard is that its simply looking for the best risk- to-reward opportunities in the world. That means that if the Singapore equities look cheap and we can see why they would go up significantly and they present us with a low risk entry, we buy them. If US Treasuries look grossly overvalued and present us with a low risk shorting opportunity, we short them. If US Investment Grade Bonds have the highest yield spread in 30 years and strong balance sheets, we look for a low risk entry and buy them. If the Euro/US Dollar looks relatively cheap and the interest rate differential is favorable, we look for a low risk entry to buy it. Hopefully you see the basic thought process: We are simply going wherever the best opportunities are.

Too many traders across the world only look at their local markets but the truth is that there are great opportunities across the globe. In fact many times they are better then the ones at home. Don’t focus all of your attention on your stock market. Instead focus it on the best opportunities.

Pundits always speak of the benefits of spreading your bets but most of them do a poor job of dispensing advice. They think that 25% in small cap, 25% in mid caps, 25% in large caps, and 25% in bonds is diversifying. The truth is that you are 75% in US stocks and 25% in US bonds most of the time. That is not diversified. To top it off they use index funds which means you will only do as well and as bad as the overall market minus any fees.

The main problem with indexing is as Keynes puts it “in the long run we are all dead.” If you have forever then buy and hold is great. Over decades and centuries stock indexes have performed well. But over some 20 year periods they have done absolutely horrid. So let go of that limiting belief and learn a better way to look at things.

The long run is fraught with different hazards. Not the least of which is that the market has gone virtually nowhere for up to 20 years at a time more then once in the last 50 years. if you can sit with zero or even negative returns for years on end then be my guest. if you want something better then read on.

Hopefully by now you realize that this is not a sound investment plan and that you can’t sit around forever in an index that is treading water or even drowning. If you had bought the SP500 20 years ago as of this writing you would only be up 235% total. That comes out to a meager 4.6% annual return. You could have done that in Treasury bonds with zero risk. Was it worth the ride? No, it was not.

What you don’t like sitting on losses for 10 years straight? Ok then you will need a new approach. Global macro trading allows you to go where there is opportunity and not sit hoping it knocks on your door. We are out hunting for returns wherever they may be and not where they are not. Look into Global Macro Investing as a strategy and as a way of life.

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