Shreehari,

The 5 tips in the article do truly reflect some of the core ideals that investor must know and be able to draw upon when there is an economic occurrence that causes a dislocation in price between a stock’s enterprise value and its “perceived” value.

Diversification is key in the never-ending effort to manage risk and offset volatile price movements

International diversification, on the other hand, is much riskier given the need to understand how a foreign culture’s legislative and political system will affect price movement in a foreign equity market.