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Stock’s Aren’t For Everyone

Yes, as much as it pains me to say this, stocks are not for everyone.  I don’t mean in the sense of one’s proximity to retirement or their risk tolerance.  No, what I mean is that some people have certain predispositions that make stocks a disaster as an investment.

What do I mean?  Have you met someone that thinks they know everything?  Overconfidence can destroy y0ur account balance.  How about a person that takes something at face value and runs with it to its logical conclusion?  Again, with the amount of news headlines, such inclinations can ruin you.

I think it’s very important for an investor to have a good sense of his or her short coming and be able to understand what he or she doesn’t know.

Being a successful stock selector is not akin to the post-Thanksgiving Day dash you see happening as stores open to kick off the Christmas season.  Grabbing a stock here and a stock there is probably going to lead to a loss everywhere.  To succeed you need to have a decent degree of self-restraint and the ability to keep your head, even as the rest around you have lost their head.

It’s just my opinion from my experience.