1. Successful Investing starts with Education 2. Psychology of Trading & General Rules 3. Essentials of Fundamental Analysis 4. Master Technical Analysis 5. Screening for Stocks 6. Making a Watchlist 7. Money Management 8. Diversification of Accounts
1 // Successful Investing starts with Education
Following 2000-2002, I realized that I needed an education to help me understand many of the topics mentioned in this thread.
So, I started to educated myself using books. Seek mentors as well.
“The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
Works with trading as well...
2 // The original observation was in connection with income and wealth. Pareto noticed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was owned by 20% of the population. He then carried out surveys on a variety of other countries and found to his surprise that a similar distribution applied.
3 // Note that 80/20 is simply shorthand for a very lopsided relationship between causes & results. The numbers don’t have to add up to 100. In some cases, 30 percent of causes may lead to 70 percent of results. Or the split may be 80/10, or 90/10, or even 99/1.