Risk with short term investments

1. All investments have risk, and retail investors should understand that short-term investments in a volatile market carry a significant risk of loss.

2. Short-term trading, even when trading with the use of derivatives or the margin, can cause significant and unforeseen losses for individual investors.

3. An alternative investing strategy that individual investors could perceive to be highly risky is momentum investing. The goal of a momentum investor is to make money by riding out existing market trends. A momentum-oriented investor believes that a substantial increase in the price of an investment will lead to additional gains, and vice versa for declining values. There could be significant losses if that assumption turns out to be incorrect.

4. Buying or selling securities without taking into account fundamental data, which includes financial, economic, and other qualitative or quantitative information that may impact the security's value, is referred to as noise trading. Usually, noise traders follow trends, time their bets incorrectly, and overreact to both good and bad market news.

5. Risk is a part of any investment. Using a margin, options, or short sales when investing could raise these risks. Borrowing money to buy shares through margin trading can be very risky, therefore it's not a good idea for all investors. Remember this before using margin to make investments.

6. Losses more than your investments could occur, it could be necessary for you to quickly deposit more money or assets into your account to offset market losses, without having to provide you prior warning, your broker is free to raise its margin requirements at any moment.