STE's Stocks Investing Journey

Since the start of 2018, the stock market has experienced higher levels of volatility than we’ve seen before. The result has been in many headlines or news highlighting the downfall of a strong market and how much the market cap has been wiped out in such a short period of time. It’s left many people wondering if this is normal and healthy, or a sign of worse things to come ? For me, it is normal for the markets to experience a short-term drop in prices, typically followed by a long-term advance. Those are the facts. The complexity of available financial products is contributing to this unusual volatility. In recent years, the financial services industry innovates by creating new and complex products such as Options/ Future / CFD / DLC that track everything from market volatility to price speculative. These leverage products/derivatives  give “ investors or gambler “ entirely new ways to “trade or gamble” on the market. I am sure the market will tend to be more vol...

According to Warren Buffett "Investing is not a game where the guy with a 160 IQ beats the guy with a 130 IQ" and what Buffett says about what is necessary for investing successfully: Temperament is also important. Independent thinking, emotional stability, and a keen understanding of both human and institutional behaviour is vital to long-term investment success. I’ve seen a lot of very smart people who have lacked these virtues. Also, investing is simple, but not easy. It requires independent thinking and emotional intelligence more than IQ . When markets are tumbling and fall like no tomorrow, IQ is not going to help you to stay away from selling and buy even more at most bargaining prices.