| What is hard about investing? It's not the simple mechanics of investing. Nowadays if you have the money, it's easy to open an online trading account and start trading. You don't even have to talk to anyone usually, just mail in a check to the broker and off you go. So the how or mechanics of investing is not hard.
Is finding what to trade hard? This is an interesting question. I would submit that finding what to trade is not the hard part about investing either. Studies have shown that selecting stocks at random, a.k.a. monkeys throwing darts at a dartboard, have outperformed market averages in a wide variety of years. But this is only because stocks as an asset class tend to move in the same direction, creating bull and bear market trends over time...............................................Full Article: Source
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