| If you more or less believe in the fundamental efficiency -- that is, randomness -- of markets, a lot of things get a lot easier. For instance you take losses more philosophically. If you lose money on an investment, that is not a sign that you should double down to make it back, nor is it a sign that you should stop investing altogether.
It is a sign that a weighted random number generator has produced some random numbers and now one of those numbers lives in your bank account. Later more numbers will be produced, but you cannot make them bigger numbers just by wishing for it to be so, or by yelling about it, or by filling your days with stress and lawsuits...............................................Full Article: Source
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