Everyone Believes It; Most Will Be Wrong: Motley Thoughts on Investing and the Economy

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  • A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Morgan Housel about Investing and Life
  • My views on the market, tech, and everything else
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    • To work hard to understand the present moment in time is not to think you can predict when something will happen in the future.

    A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Morgan Housel about Investing and Life

    You may be working from an assumption that sometime over a ten year period Mr. Market will raise price of as asset so it is equal to or greater than value.

    But those who can truly train themselves to be skeptical of outperformance and attracted to underperformance will likely do better than most. They have an advantage. Buying stocks when Mr. Market is fearful is easier to say than do. The best way to learn to invest is to invest. The feelings involved in investing are primal and often hard to control. For example, humans are simply not hard wired to be contrarian when others are full of fear. You can read all the books, articles and speeches about being fearless when others are fearful and yet fail to be calm when the time comes.

    This presents a fundamental problem in that this is the best time to be buyer of assets. The best investors are actually nostalgic for times like March of when the market was rife with fear and uncertainty.

    Screaming buys based on valuation like those that existed in March of may appear only two to three times in an investing lifetime. By the time you get good at this key skill you may be too old to take advantage of the opportunity.

    My views on the market, tech, and everything else

    Anyone who believes in the Mr. Market metaphor understands that volatility is both inevitable and the source of an opportunity for a rational investor. Volatility is one type of risk. Why do some investment managers try to equate risk with volatility rather than just considering it as one important type of risk? You can quibble with that estimate but not too much. The idea that you can invest your way to retirement is simply not possible without savings. This is especially true since most investors chase performance and earn less that an average return of the market, especially after fees and expenses.

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    Informative without requiring a PHD in Economics. Leverage can also create situations where underperformance takes you completely out of the investing process. No trivia or quizzes yet. Why are experts so bad at making predictions? East Dane Designer Men's Fashion.

    Less important was the rate of return earned on investments. Debt causes ma n y problems, the worst of which is that the magic of compounding is working against you instead of for you. Leverage can also create situations where underperformance takes you completely out of the investing process. As Charlie Munger has said: Investing involves both skill and luck.

    Sorting out how much of a given result is skill versus luck is neither easy or always possible. Howard Marks also has useful view on the difference between luck and skill and investing: The first is skill, which requires you to be technically proficient. Rand rated it it was amazing Oct 17, Anil Kamath rated it really liked it Sep 11, Goh Chong Yong rated it really liked it Jul 09, Roger rated it it was amazing Dec 14, Michael Holland rated it really liked it Jan 15, Yvon Beaulieu rated it it was amazing Jul 30, Sakul Nathwani rated it it was amazing Sep 30, Joe Hurricane rated it it was ok Jan 31, Mayurkumar Gadewar rated it really liked it Feb 07, Rick rated it it was ok May 09, Pinpress rated it really liked it Jan 18, Mark rated it it was amazing Apr 13, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

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