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Some Granite Value About Investing?
Learn from my investing failures and take benefit of solid ideas and some ground rules
I have been following markets for about two decades now,
Honestly, the biggest reason besides the fact that money is involved is that I really like the psychological aspect of the stock market. I mentioned in earlier posts that our brains are great prediction machines if you feed them with enough of the correct material.
Having a “higher” EQ can come in handy when you want to anticipate the stock market. Why is that? Well, let me ask you the next question: “Who buys stocks?” (Although these days we can argue more and more about this question) Still, the answer would be mainly the people.
Social interaction with a large variety of people, active listening with a growth mindset, and life experiences are a few important reasons to build EQ.
When I was eighteen years, I made my first profit on stocks.
I quit school early, started to sail at the age of seventeen, and with the money I’ve earned after a couple of months, I stepped to the bank. Indeed, this was around the first “bigger” digitalization step around 2003. Most people did it the old-fashioned way by a banker’s visit back then.
