What You Should Know About The Stock Market

Re:What You Should Know About The Stock Market by Tichy on Friday November 16, 2007 @11:57AM (#80710)

The thing that confused me about Random Walk down wall street was that he spends the whole book explaining that all strategies for investing are useless, and then in the last chapter he gives out advice for investing.

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Re:What You Should Know About The Stock Market by akkartik on Saturday November 17, 2007 @06:34AM (#80923)

Wasn't the gist of his advice to not try to predict prices and instead just invest in index funds? That fits in perfectly with the rest of the book.

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Re:What You Should Know About The Stock Market by pchristensen on Friday November 16, 2007 @05:21PM (#80810)

I think he included that because some people just won't listen and they really really want to pick stocks instead of invest in index funds. I think he had to acknowledge that those people exist, but try to mitigate that desire by writing the first 400 pages about sensible investing.

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