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What’s Fear Got to Do With It?
Why are people afraid of the dark?
Quite simply, because they no longer have a grasp of their surroundings and hence no way to determine if they are in danger.
To a great extent, the phrase “fear of the unknown” is redundant; in many cases, the unknown itself causes fear.
It is this idea that is currently pervading our society and our capital markets. Although short-term traders are known to have extremes of emotion and all too often need both hands to count their heart attacks, if one were to analyze the emotional characteristics of a successful long-term investor, he or she…
21Nov2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | ContinuedFool me 118,298 times, shame on you…
The tagline for The Motley Fool’s web site reads, “To Educate, Amuse, and Enrichâ„¢.â€
Really.
Let me begin by saying that I have read articles on Motley Fool (among countless other investment-related sites) extensively, and many of them… dare I say most, are well-founded. However, let me tell you what is not well-founded. A group of 118,000+ investors rattling on about which stocks they believe will outperform or underperform the market. The site boasts that this group of investment “experts†have made more than 2.5 million stock recommendations thus far. There is a stringent selection process to join this team of financial…
26Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | Continued
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