mathoda.com » teaching http://mathoda.com the stories, poems, essays, biography, and projects of Ranjit S. Mathoda Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Investing http://mathoda.com/2009/10/the-10-most-common-mistakes-people-make-when-investing http://mathoda.com/2009/10/the-10-most-common-mistakes-people-make-when-investing#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:53:56 +0000 Ranjit Mathoda http://mathoda.com/?p=731 On October 21, 2009, I taught a one hour class on the website edufire about The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Investing.

The 10 Most Common Mistakes:

#10: Narrowly defining “Investing”
#9: Taking big risks in hopes of earning a big return
#8: In monetary investing, failure to focus on the 4 things that matter
#7: Trusting untrained feelings
#6: Trusting a number
#5: Trusting or distrusting, rather than verifying
#4: Deciding it’s verified without asking what is required to know it is
#3: Thinking the future must or can’t follow the past
#2: Not knowing how to strike a balance: eggs in one basket vs diworsification
#1: Failing to look deeper

be right and contrarian

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Apparently yes, and it appears to be quite effective: http://pjammer.livejournal.com/172181.html

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