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Making Money On Stocks: The One Golden Rule You Must Know

If Warren Buffett, Tony Robbins, and AI have taught us one thing about investment, it’s this.

Jacob Bergdahl

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Becoming successful in the stock market isn’t as difficult as some make it out to be. On the contrary, the most successful strategies for performing well on the market are typically the simplest. Yes, expert investors with years of training perform advanced analyzes to attempt to beat the market. Yet, as we are about to find out, a vast majority of them fail to do so. It turns out that the best way to increase your money over a ten year period is also the safest and the cheapest. Let’s talk about that.

Warren Buffett proved that experts couldn’t beat the index

Back in 2008, Warren Buffett, one of the most successful investors in the world, challenged the hedge fund industry. Buffett claimed that, including fees and expenses, an index fund could outperform a handpicked portfolio over a period of ten years.

An index fund is a collection of stocks constructed to match the index of a financial market. For instance, an index fund will typically follow the 500 or 1000 greatest companies in any market. Since no human curation is required, index funds have incredibly low fees, while…

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