Crazy Thoughts
“Crazy… Crazy about you…”- song lyrics
According to James Altucher:
Lesson#10 “This is crazy” means you are crazy
The market will do what the market will do. Unfortunately, we like to think that we know better than what the market is doing. This causes great losses and leads to craziness.
Market movement is due to thousands or even millions of transactions that move the investment price up or down. Yes it is very volatile. Yes it is sometimes driven by large players and bad news. And at times it is driven by pure stupidity.
But we must realize that it is driven. If some move you make goes against you, you need to make sure it is limited in ability to hurt your whole portfolio(10% rule) and walk away. The market will do what it wants to do, not what we want it to do. The worst thing we can do is outthink ourselves by adding to a position if the market is going against us. Now, that is crazy!
The best that we can do is go along for the ride, up or down, for a bit and then get out. Do not fall in love with investments! Every company has a story. Don’t fall in love with the story! Just simply ride the move up or down.
Today’s question is:
“Have you ever doubled down on a loss?”
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