If you dollar cost average into stock market and hold voraciously, the odds of you doing well are exceptionally high. Most people have just no idea about the basic connection between what the businessis due business profits and stock prices. That's when you really need to embrace this stuff. I totally think that we are naturally hard wired to be bad at investing. Like we just are, humans are free programm to be terrible investors. When stock prices are going up, it's easy to be an investor. When they're going down, that's when youreally need that story of why the stock market goes buck.
Brian Feroldi is the author of the book “Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?: Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing In School, But Weren't”. His mission statement is “To Spread Financial Wellness”, and he does exactly that in this episode of Infinite Loops! You can connect with Brian on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BrianFeroldi and get his book from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-Stock-Market-Everything/dp/1735066168/ Show Notes:
- Brian’s first exposure to the stock market
- The power of mission statements
- Personal finances over investments
- Paying off your mortgage early
- Finding high-quality companies
- (Business) Momentum investing
- Brian’s Investment Checklist
- Importance of narratives in investments strategies
- 99% of great investing is doing nothing
- On being wrong, and learning from mistakes
- DCA’ing into index funds
- Capitalism is brutal
- Knowing Tom Engle
Books Mentioned:
- Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?; by Brian Feroldi
- The Tao Jones Averages; Bennett W. Goodspeed
- How To Retire Rich; by Jim O'Shaughnessy
- The Intelligent Investor; by Benjamin Graham
- The Psychology of Money; Morgan Housel
- Just Keep Buying; Nick Maggiulli