It is fallacy among investment professionals, a belief that they must outsmart everyone else. Get in and out of an investment before the herd. Good news is one don’t need to outsmart everyone else. All it requires is investment discipline, ignore frequent actions and stop listening to experts.

Current best investment could be your current holdings. It depends upon how much effort you have put in procuring it.

A notional genius who predicted markets correctly 39 times out of 40 and have sold all equities would still be sorry. It is difficult to aboard ship that one dumped in hurry.

Investment selection and its success are 2 different subjects which needs separate discussions. But, success of later depends on former – bride by faith.

Individual Investment strategy helps maintain rational thinking. It would avoid extreme stress leads to poor decisions. A willingness to hold cash until suitable investment opportunity is a strong self-discipline.

Investing is adrift into ocean of potential choices and logic – designed to triumph over emotion.

  Investing is simple but not easy, that is to say, it should be simple to understand how it works. Not easy, as it is difficult to buy assets below its intrinsic value, for it to be sold at fare or above fare value.

Growth does not produce more output, more income, and more buying power. It only supports stock price. Prospect of growth creates excitements, results in higher price due to perception which in turn discounts future value.

Company’s share price is below its cash value! Watch out guys! It might be profitable only if you take management control. Technically price can go further down, much below value of cash..

The behavioral pitfall – hanging on to your views too long, is absorbed too frequently in financial world!! Forecasters are good in one thing and possibly one thing alone – telling what has just happened.