Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.
Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.
Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.
People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
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