Ready Investor One: How Gaming Became the Business to Bet On

You’ve got to conserve resources, time everything right, and then give it your all to win big. This describes how to conquer most video games. However, it also describes a real-life challenge: success on Wall Street!

Investors are looking for markets that will significantly grow and pay out in a major way. Now, it looks like video games may be the hottest investment item of 2020.

How did gaming become the business to bet on, and how can you take advantage of it? Keep reading to discover the answer!

The Investment Cycle

If you’ve never invested in the stock market, you may think it all looks chaotic and random from the outside. From the inside, you can see a very clear and cylical pattern.

“Cyclical” is a buzzword meaning that the market will go through “bust” and “boom” cycles. The housing market is a great example of this. Over a decade ago, housing was in the bust cycle. In fact, it kicked off our last major recession!

Now, housing has bounced into a major “boom” cycle led by millennials looking for a house. The basic principle of investment is simple: get in while the getting is good! If history is any indicator, now is the time to invest in video games.

Study the Past, Understand the Future

Obviously, there will always be an element of mystery when it comes to investment. We cannot know for sure what a particular stock will be worth at a given time.

Instead, what we can do is look to the past and forecast future trends. In this case, the major event on the horizon is the next generation of video game consoles. Both Sony and Microsoft will be unleashing their new consoles in time for the 2020 holiday season.

Historically, a new console generation leads to rising stock value. This can kick off a “super cycle” of rising value that may last for half a decade. With a new launch around the corner, this may be your chance to get in on the ground floor of some smart investments.