Making Mistakes
Nobody wants to make investment mistakes. And yet, we’re human; mistakes happen. Here’s how to minimize the ones that matter the most, and make the most of the ones that remain.
Nobody wants to make investment mistakes. And yet, we’re human; mistakes happen. Here’s how to minimize the ones that matter the most, and make the most of the ones that remain.
Investing is personal, and the market is vast and ever-changing. Since there's no way to control this greater force, your approach to investing should be focused on your particulars.
The stock price you pay does matter, just not in the way many investors may think. By understanding how price-setting works, we can stop trying to game the system while it’s still in play.
In Part 3 of Investment Basics, we’ll look at where stock market returns really come from, and why that matters to your investing.
One of the best ways to combat recency bias is by focusing instead on the basics that have served investors well for centuries, if not millennia.
A heightened level of market volatility across both the stock and bond markets may have made you wonder if this time is different. There are broader worries as well, but we're prone to paying more attention to recent alarms than news from long ago.