23 Big Mistakes Investors Make (and How To Avoid Them)
Stop losing money to these common traps
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19 min readSep 14, 2019
One of the greatest secrets to becoming a successful investor is to avoid the simple mistakes. It all starts with accepting one hard truth…most investors don’t perform well in the stock market.
Just look at how the average investor has performed vs. a range of other investment classes over the last 20 years:
See the orange bar at the far right? That’s not good.
The average investor has underperformed every asset class on the market, including inflation. Why? How is it possible that investors can trail so far behind every other benchmark?
It’s because there are a handful of costly traps that investors fall into.
For example, Raymond James analyzed the biggest mistakes that hold investors back and categorized them into five major areas:
