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Anatomy of A Stock Market Loss

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.” ~ Rumi

If you invest in stocks, at some point, you are going to lose money. Try as much as you can, but there is no way around it.

Sometimes, a stock market loss is immediate and clear. A stock you bought at a higher price has plummeted. Like this one…


In other cases, your losses are not as obvious because they are more subtle. Like for investors in this stock, who suffered a time correction by holding on for five years yet seeing slightly negative returns…

Each of these types of losses can be painful, and especially for the fact that we assign negative connotations to the very word “loss.”

A “loss” in the stock market is essentially considered as a synonym to “failure,” and as being “wrong.”

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Why We Make Bad Decisions

Here is some stuff I am reading and thinking about this weekend…

Book I’m Reading – What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars
The backdrop of this book is the true story of a trader called Jim Paul. His career in stock market started with a string of unusual successes that vaulted him from a dirt-poor country boy to jet-setting-millionaire. However, after 15 years of uninterrupted success, all of Jim’s wealth was wiped out in a matter of few weeks when he lost $1.6 million in a speculative trade. This devastating failure led him to intense self-reflection and discovery of some unusual insights about success and failure.

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Stock Investing is a Humbling Game

Not losing money is a critical part of the stock investing process. Successful investors say it in different ways, but the point is always the same.

Warren Buffett has often said – “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.”

But he has also said – “If you don’t make mistakes, you can’t make decisions.”

You see, the problem is not in making mistakes. The problem is in not knowing when you have made a mistake and thus not learning from it.

Unfortunately, openness to making mistakes and recognizing them is beyond most of us. Why is that?

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