What are the general methods people usually make money with their capital?

Question

Before I make any decisions on my future as an investor, I wanted to get a general feel for all options: I know there's real estate investing, stock market investing, small business investing, but are there other UNUSUAL, or less common and more lucrative methods?

Answer 1

Invest in something you know and understand, preferably something you can manage well too. Real estate used to be the standard, but now I don't know. Try investing in well diversified international mutual funds. As always more risk = more reward. you decide.

Answer 2

Leasing equipment like cranes or backhoes. A company might not want to spend hundreds of thousands on major equipment or buy it when they only need it for 6 months.
Rents storage units like single wide mobile homes some are portable offices. That would be like being a landlord with no land. Now companies are renting out garden shed sized little buildings.
Another way is loaning out. People are always looking for loans to expand businesses or just to spend on consumer goods. Everything from junk bonds to loan sharking can make money.
You could simply invest it all in lottery tickets, someone has to win.

Answer 3

Market profile works for me. I mark all the untouched POC's from previous days (I call these a "Virgin" POC, or 'VPC') and each morning the VPC that is above the opening price, and the one that is below the opening price, forms the Natural Trading Range ("NTR") for the day. I then take shorts from the upper VPC, and longs against the lower VPC. To enter the trade, I use multiple time-frame stochastics. I've been trading this method for over five years and every trade I've ever made is shown in my blog. I post all of them in advance, so others can follow. And no, I don't charge any money :-)