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Mistakes to avoid in the next stock market rally

Mon Jun 8, 2009 9:48am IST
 
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By iTrust Financial Advisors (www.itrust.in)

Recent stock market activity, especially the reaction post-elections, might suggest that the worst is behind us. So many of us made investing mistakes and suffered over the last 18 months.

Everyone makes mistakes….but really smart people learn from their own mistakes and those that other people make. If this is indeed the start of a new upcycle, then now is the best time to review what went wrong the last time so that we do not repeat the same mistakes again.

Read more and get smarter….

1. Don’t be unrealistically optimistic: Markets can come down as well – don’t believe the cheerleaders who only give you the positive picture of markets going up.

Be very suspicious of the so-called experts on TV who are “confident” that a stock or the market will go up. If they are such geniuses, why did they not warn you 18 months ago that the market would go down by about 60%?  Continued...

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