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IFB264: Basics of Risk + REITs and DCF

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

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Investing in Stocks - Is Volatility the Risk?

Volatility is if you look at a stock and you see it moving like your heartbeat monitor, that's volatility. The higher the spikes, the more volatility you have. And I think understanding the idea of Mr. Market and how that mental model works where someone is going to show up at your door every day and offer you a different price for the company for PayPal, for example, every day. It can also depend on flamboyant CEOs,. i.e. Elon Musk can cause a little bit of volatility along the way as well.

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