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The Ultimate Guide to Trading Illiquid Assets

January 21, 2022 By The Fortunate Investor | This article may contain affiliate links. For more information visit our Disclosure

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The Ultimate Guide to Trading Illiquid Assets

Did you know that the industry for real estate sales and brokerage in the United States alone is worth more than $202 billion every single year! Most people think about liquid assets when it comes to investment. But real estate is an illiquid asset and the industry is huge!

Of course, just like with liquid assets, there are both huge winners and huge losers in the illiquid assets game. If you want to do better than average, you are going to have to have a deeper understanding of the dynamic of the game than average.

So what exactly do you need to know about trading illiquid assets? Read on to learn all about the most important principles of trading to keep in mind when you are working with illiquid assets!

Be Prepared to Negotiate Price

There is a fair amount of controversy about what the correct price should be for an illiquid security asset. The most obvious number to use is its last traded price. However, this is almost never the correct number to use now.

The last traded price is a reflection of the situation in the past. Now that time has passed, the current correct trading price will be different.

At the end of the day, you have to ask what kind of return you can get on your investment. An asset is only worth as much as you can make it worth.

Keep Your Eye on Your Portfolio Allocation

Savvy portfolio strategies include carefully balancing liquid and illiquid assets. As you trade your illiquid assets around, make sure not to end up with too much or too little of your money allocated to illiquid assets.

Prepare Exit Strategies in Advance

With liquid assets, exit strategies are built-in. You can quickly get rid of your assets whenever you want to. But that is not the case for illiquid assets.

As a result, you have to consciously prepare your own exit strategy. In general, you should never go into a deal without knowing how you will get out.

The more that you understand about liquid versus illiquid assets, the better prepared you will be to make smart financial decisions with both your illiquid assets and with your liquid assets. It can help a lot to review illiquid assets examples to start to develop a gut sense for how you should treat them differently from liquid asset counterparts. The decentralized asset token marketplace is a great place to familiarize yourself with these kinds of trades.

Understand How to Effectively Trade Illiquid Assets

We hope that some of the ideas in this brief article about how to effectively trade illiquid assets have been helpful for you. Most of the financial advice out there is directed towards people who are trading liquid assets. Much of it does not apply when you are trading illiquid assets instead.

However, that does not mean that you should not focus on your education in illiquid asset trade. The better you understand the game, the better you will be able to take care of your financial health. To keep up-to-date on the latest developments in business, technology, and more, take a look through our other articles!

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The Fortunate Investor is the finance half of the husband and wife duo behind this website. Michael's finance and investment advice is rooted in an MBA and 20 years experience as an entrepreneur, banker, and manager in the financial services industry.
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