Category Archives: Investment Psychology

Human side of investment

Why some find it hard to practise basics of investing?

July 9, 2007 – 2:44 pm

Why is it hard to practise basics of investing? I got this question based on a few emails from my friends in the past two weeks. They all asked me what to invest now. They do not participate actively in the market for the past few years. The common characteristics among them are

Male over 35 […]

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Buy when others are not interested and/or want to sell?

June 15, 2007 – 9:39 pm

Generally it is less risky to buy a fund when others are not interested and/or want to sell. How do you know that? One way is to analyze volume of underlying index or proxy. The other way I am experimenting now is to ask the fund investors in an active forum. On 17/4/07 and 3/5/07, […]

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