A few days ago at a conference I heard the following sentence: “drink food and eat water”. At first, I thought the speaker wasn’t feeling well, but in reality this phrase has a profound meaning: we must chew our food well until it liquifies and water must be kept in our mouths for a long time before ingesting it. The phrase is counter-intuitive and strives to convey that the right way to behave is the opposite of what common beliefs teach us from a small age. Why are financial markets counter-intuitive? Simple. Have you ever met a person who invests in a stock in order to lose money? I haven’t, but I’ve met many people who have lost money in the stock market. Even people who think they’re acting correctly, could be missing things that cause them to make mistakes. If the markets were intuitive, everyone would gain from investing
Read more