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Equity investors have two sides to their investing psychology; to make money try exploiting both
So if you are attracted to the idea of trying your hand at equity trading, what should you do?
Synopsis
Understand that there is money for investing and there is money for punting. Decide on the fun-punting amount, recognise that you might lose it and for that amount, do not even pretend to be an investor. This fun money should be ring-fenced from your real investments.
A few weeks ago, in an article in a sister publication of this one, I had written how easy mass adoption of the riskiest kind of trading behaviours is setting up a new generation for catastrophic losses. Even though human behaviour is the same, new kinds of trading platforms are making it easier and easier to do the kind of things that have a high probability of losing a game-quitting amount of money.
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