Do People Need Failures to Learn Investing?

Many investors, especially beginners, tend to make numerous mistakes in the stock market. During the "beginner's luck" phase, they may make some money and become overconfident, attempting more aggressive strategies or chasing hype stocks (like meme stocks), only to end up losing more than they gained. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's late partner, once remarked, "There are no value investors under the age of 40."

avatarPigpen
04-01
Show me any investor who hasn't failed. If you invest, you will fail. Whether you can pick yourself up and return is a whole different matter. 
Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. I heard a statement made on the documentary "working" on netflix. The gentleman said: "Money doesn't buy you happiness, however it is a vessel to help you to find it." It hits home as with the Trump administration, every policy they make is going to benefit the top 10% percentile of the income group in US. All of the middle to lower income group will suffer, with more living costs and more taxes to pay.  However, there are two choices. Is either you continue to lament the fact that you have a unstable and crazy president for the next 4 years and keep complaining, but do nothing about it. Or you can buckle up, double down on finding strategies to trade this vo
So, more often than not i share my wins. But to show balance, i don't always win. Today im going to share a very recent loss. $NextEra Energy Partners LP(NEP)$ has been an amazing stock for me until last year when they announced they may not be able to continue to increase their dividend payments in the near term due to high interest rates, and the stock price got smashed. I truely believed this was a market overreaction. So I brought more because their dividend return popped to over 20%.  So why did i originally invest in this company and why did i have the conviction to buy more? Well it fitted my dividend return and dividend growth criteria, i invested in it a few years back, it was returning over 15% in annually in dividends and had over 1

2025 Tiger Brokers Trade To Win

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avatarLeroykahmeng
2024-12-26
My BIGGEST Mistake: Don’t Make This One! Hi Everyone, If you’ve been following my posts, you know I’ve been on a four-year journey in value investing—learning the ropes, honing my skills, and diving deep into what value investing truly means. As 2024 draws to a close and we prepare to step into 2025, I’ve been reflecting on the mistakes I’ve made and how I can improve my analysis in selecting the right businesses. Today, I want to share my biggest mistake with you, in hopes that it might help you avoid making the same error. My Biggest Mistake When I first started investing, I, like many others, was tempted by the allure of quick profits and fast cash. During a bullish market, it’s easy to get caught up in the fear of missing out (FOMO), diving into stocks that might be great businesses bu
avatarKeeley
2024-12-24

The Brutal Truth About Trading Discipline

Here's what nobody tells you about trading discipline. It's not about motivation or willpower. You can't just "try harder" to be disciplined. If it were that simple, everyone would be profitable by now. Think about these scenarios. You see a setup forming but it's not quite perfect. You take the trade anyway because "close enough is good enough". Your stop loss is about to get hit, but you move it because you "feel" the market will reverse. You're down for the week and decide to risk 5% instead of your usual 1% to "recover losses". Sound familiar? These aren't strategy problems. These are discipline problems. Why Discipline Is Harder Than It Looks When you're backtesting, everything seems easy. You can fast forward. Drawdowns can be recovered easily. You don't feel the emotional impact of
The Brutal Truth About Trading Discipline
avatarSigma84
02-14
Nothing will be free in this life , learning is not free 
Didn't do any trades today.  Well not exactly lazy, but not feeling like unnecessarily exposing myself to risk on volatility in my preferred  stocks $SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$ $SoundHound AI Inc(SOUN)$ $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$   and $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  . Instead, travelling and site-seeing was my thing today [Grin]