I’ve often heard people say: “Investing is no different that gambling.”
Au contraire. There is a big distinction between gambling and investing.
Gambling looks like this:
- Buying stocks or bonds willy-nilly
- Following a hot tip
- Purchasing the hottest fund
- Trying to time the market (buying when it’s high, freaking out and selling when it plunging)
- Deferring decisions to another and sticking your head in the sand
Investing, on the other hand, looks like this:
- Creating a financial plan based on your goals and risk tolerance
- Building a diversified portfolio, based on the plan
- Adhering to the plan until something changes
- Making decisions supported by your plan not your emotions
- Taking a long term approach (gambling is all about rapid gains)
Having a plan is the key distinction. If you don’t have an idea of where you want to end up, it will be far more difficult to make the right decisions.
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