I apologize that it took me quite a long while to wrap up this series. Part 2 of Ten myths of stock market investing was made available last October 2021. It took me some time to come up with Part 3 ! The reason was not because it took me a while to figure out what the other four myths were. The reason was that I became so busy with my other roles, especially with regards to my responsibilities in the academe. Now that all of my deadlines are done, here are the next two myths of stock market investing. 7.)Stock market investing is risky In anything that we do in this world, we take a certain kind of risk. Day to day activities like simply crossing the street or trusting that the food you eat or the water you drink will not make you sick do require that we take some kind of acceptable risk. Well admittedly, there is a certain risk involved when investing in the stock market however the risk I am talking about is not the same kind of risk that most people think. If you … [Read more...]
Ten myths of stock market investing – Part 1
Previously we learned about “Ten good reasons why I love investing in the stock market” By now, you must be very excited to start investing in the stock market. However before we go into the “how” of proper stock market investing, let’s take a look at the misconceptions or myths of stock market investing in order that you might truly have the right investing perspective. People have a lot of misconceptions about stock market investing. Most of the time because of these reasons they end up not investing in the stock market at all thereby missing a great opportunity to take advantage of probably the greatest money machine man has ever invented. Because of these reasons also, people miss some great market opportunities wherein prices are so cheap. These opportunities could only occur once every 3 to 5 years. Also, because of these misconceptions, people end up getting burned and end up vowing to themselves never to get involved in stock market investing. There are lots of myths and … [Read more...]