Sentences with phrase «by amateur investors»

Placing of your sell - stops is a great technique, often forgotten by amateur investors, to minimise risk and protect profits.

While private pension funds and mutual funds often steer stock markets in places like the United States, markets in China are more often swayed by amateur investors and well - heeled individuals willing to take big risks.

Not exact matches

By shifting the risks away from banks and to asset managers, Gross argues that the risk of herd behavior that causes a liquidity event in markets has been shifted away from the professional investing class and to a more amateur, less - informed, skittish class of investor: the public.

Second, he suspects that amateur, «do - nothing» investors following the same index fund strategy will in aggregate end up with results superior to those realized by investors who choose to employ professionals charging high fees.

Buffett, who has argued that investors — both small and large — would be better off putting money in low - cost index funds, wrote in his 2005 shareholder letter that active management professionals (hedge funds), as a group, would underperform the returns achieved «by rank amateurs who simply sat still.»

Another strategic error commonly practiced by many amateur investors is adding more money to a losing position.

I'm also an amateur value investor, and planning to go professional by starting an RIA here in San Francisco, California.

While we're on the topic of ETFs, many other brokerages (including banks) still charge a fee for ETF trades, strangely enough, ensuring the ill - advised «timing the market» strategy as a common practice by many amateur investors at these other financial outlets in hopes of saving on commission costs.

Many amateur traders are also «investors» by default.

In general, it is wise for both amateur and pro investors to trade by rule.

Bitcoin startups have attracted investment from some venture capital firms and from individuals through «crowdfunding,» in which many amateurs support projects, often with small investments and without the due diligence typically conducted by professional investors.

The Taklimakan platform is aimed to empower and attract amateur investors by providing new tools and great knowledge base.

More amateurs and individual investors are flipping houses, drawn by reality television shows and a burgeoning housing market, says Daren Blomquist, senior vice president at ATTOM.