📉 Don’t Let Daily Gainers Distract You

In today’s markets, you’ll always find 5 to 10 stocks gaining 15% or even 20% in a single day. It happens in every calendar year. And naturally, many investors get emotionally triggered by it:

“Why is that stock flying while mine isn’t moving?”

“Am I missing something?”

“Should I switch?”

But here’s the truth:

The real question isn’t what a stock does today — it’s what it does after.

• What happens a week later?

• A month later?

• A year later?

• Five years from now?

That’s the story no one talks about.

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🧠 The Real Game Is Long-Term

There will always be winners.

There will always be outperformers.

And yes — there will always be someone doing better than you.

That’s just how markets (and life) work.

But if you get too motivated by someone else’s gain, or too demotivated by your own stock’s silence, you’ll constantly switch paths. And switching too often is what stops real compounding from happening.

Focus on your process, not their outcome.

That’s where the real progress begins


Quick brainstorm where the money flow example

# Jagannathan Janakiraman

Modify on 2025-07-09 17:55

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