Excess return is far harder to achieve than the «additional» return gained by simply investing in low - cost and low - tax index funds or similar vehicles, and once invested, by avoiding
emotional mistakes like panic selling and chasing performance.
Not exact matches
Understanding your comfort level with risk can only make you a better investor and perhaps avoid some
emotional investing
mistakes,
like chasing performance.
Make no
mistake, the Ironman requires physical training but the
emotional component of an event
like this is undeniable.
But to
mistake Garland's succession of haunted - house -
like spectacles as Acid: The Place would be missing out on so much
emotional work that he's doing.
Make no
mistake, it's her film through and through, and she carries the innumerable tons of
emotional weight on her slender shoulders
like a seasoned acting veteran.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading
mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you
mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen -
like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting
emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep -
like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
Despite this objective, an investor will always make some
emotional and psychological
mistakes, but if you can do things
like learn from your
mistakes, use techniques
like checklists, have the right
emotional temperament, exhibit a strong work ethic and are a «learning machine,» he believes some investors can outperform the market.
Content of the session — your ability to discuss your
emotional world (
like fantasies, dreams, problems, difficulties,
mistakes, past experiences and a lot more).