There is no direct answer as to what is the best way or when is the best time. The one condition that should always be met is that you can afford to lose your investment without detrimental harm to your daily life, your emotional and psychological well being. Define that for yourself but its meant to advise you to be careful, do your best to make sure of what you are doing and decide wisely.

The comments and recommendation from respondents that you use it to invest in yourself, self improvement, education I believe are heart felt. There is information that I see in your requests that indicated you are not already educated and simply not seeking opinions, comparisons to your own thought process, and up to date considerations for investing.

Lets say that the above condition has been met. Nothing says you are not savvy and simply not just conducting an experiment to gain new knowledge, or test public sentiment about a certain area of investment or specifically what you can do with an exact amount of $10,000.00

The thing about answering you is that you did not include enough information about your situation, your desire, your plans, your goals , you emotional make up and tolerance for risk and so many other factors that can be used to define what kind of investor you might be and what you want to accomplish either short term, long term or on an ongoing basis.

There are growth investments, income generating investments, and blue sky investments, which is right for you?

Is this your first time investing? When will you have the money in hand to invest?

Do you have the money now or are you simply testing the waters in consideration of an amount of money you feel confident to have in the near future. We must assume we are considering a time frame which include the present and near future. It would be pointless to make a suggestion to you now if you do not plan to have the $10,000.00 until 10,15, or 20 years from now.

If you have not already done so it might be a good idea to research financial markets and familiarize yourself with stocks, bonds, mutual funds, derivatives, option, hedge funds, money markets, and as many securities as you can think of or come across in your research. Include commodities, read definitions and learn about each investment's purpose and use for investment purposes.

How is $10,000.00 best invested ?

I can only answer what in my opinion according to my own criteria, goals, and purpose that I would invest it in a small gold mine. There happens to be right now an opportunity to anyone who wants to own, learn to operate and successful grow the business of gold exploration, mine development and gold extraction. This opportunity is being made available and sponsored by the mine owner and a qualified mining consultant, they offer to set you up ready to undertake production immediately which means within 45 days, and guarantee a certain amount of gold within your mining area. It is essentially a mine within a mine, You are purchasing the right to extract gold from a section of a larger mine. You are purchasing the mineral rights to a defined geographical area, you are guided, provided with training, support, employees, housing, food, water, and other necessities as well as necessary equipment and technology.

You are given the option to own, manage and operate your own gold mine or simply be the owner and have your project managed for you throughout the life of the your mine which can reasonably be expected to be from 5 10 years. You can also elect to simply be an investor in one of the mining projects through association and partnership.

The bottom line is that you can expect a ROI of from 30% to 50%/yr maybe even more and that is excellent for a 10 year expected performance plus you are offered to get your money back earned through the sale of the gold content of your mine. A reasonable expectation is to get you investment capital returned to you within the first 18 months limiting your risk to those initial months.

Once your money is back in your hands you will continue to earn residual income from your mine for the life of the mine. No other investment will continue to earn for you once you take your investment out or back. If you buy and sell a stock that is it, you;r out of it, If you buy and sell a bond, once you sell it then its over, same with any instrument of investment through the stock markets.

The minimum investment called for in this mining ownership investment that I talk about is $30,000.00 but like I said you can participate as an investor in one or more of the smaller mining projects. You will still realize a 30% to 50% ROI or more depending on your investment contract.