I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
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 could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.
I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.