Forum Archive Index - May 2001

["G Stolwyk" <stolwyk@wave.co.nz>]

 

 

Tony, 

 

I can send you a long list of losses to read; very depressing reading it is!

 

Snoopy and others have done some excellent work on the FIG Message Board; ShareChat has its educational features and you may get some market sense from reading my series " Learning to invest.......".

 

That series started in Nov. 2000 and the psychology of the market and participants is fully discussed.

 

I would never class myself as an experienced investor; to say that, somehow means that we know everything and hence we stop learning.

 

I am 73, was a relative late starter and still find the markets fascinating, but I do think that the most important word is " judgement ".

 

It is important also to " keep a distance "; meaning, don't become too infatuated with a company; it has cost me and many others! 

 

Gerry