Despite it still being a few months away serious investors are already starting to pick their stocks for 2010. Research into various companies, sectors and countries are all a part of this research. So where could be the best place to invest your hard earned cash in 2010?

Now it is important that I a make one thing clear to the readers of this article before I continue; please do not take what you read as any form of financial advice as I am not a financial adviser. I am just another run of the mill guy who likes to play the stock markets. I see it as a bit of fun and very much a gamble. By trade I offer advice on training for foster carers, a stuttering therapy (I used to have a stutter myself) and I am also involved in composite door company that offers affordable front doors.

I really like the companies that are looking to invest their way through this current crisis. This takes a bit of nerve and a lot of ready cash but is a move that is likely to prove very beneficial in the long run. It has to be said that there has possibly never been a better time to buy a business. Many business owners are unable to raise finance and are desperate to sell up therefore any person with the available cash can easily bag themselves a bargain.

The companies who do invest are the ones that are likely to make the most profits when the gloom and doom of this credit crisis lifts. It is all about ensuring that you are best placed out of all of your competitors when business starts to boom again.

As for the regions I am looking to invest in; I am liking the look of China, India and Russia at the present time. A slightly riskier proposition is the Japanese stock market but is one that could easily shine next year.

I wish all of the readers a prosperous 2010! Steve Hill from the UK, invester of the year 2094! OK maybe not invester of the year; how about investor of the century lol.