that when you decide to buy or sell a stock, you are competing with people who have devoted a good portion of their
lives to this same endeavor. In many instances, these professionals are on the opposite side of your trades and, on
balance, they are going to beat you.
Is the implicit message that, most of the time, the novice trader would be better off having his
money professionally managed?
The term professionally managed implies a credit I am not sure I would give the average professional in this
business. My point is that you should have a good reason to assume that you are going to achieve a significantly
superior return for investing in stocks. If you can get 9 percent or 10 percent by investing in T-bonds and 7 percent
or 8 percent by investing in T-bills, what should you get in stocks to offset the incremental risk? Probably something
much higher. You have to decide what that number should be, and whether you have a realistic chance of achieving
it.
Don't underestimate the difficulty of the game.
Right, and forget the shibboleth that stocks are going to give you a higher rate of return because they are
more risky. That is not true. They are more risky; therefore, you have to be convinced that you are going to get a
higher rate of return in order to play the game. Don't assume that by investing in some mutual fund, you are going to
get a higher rate of return.
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