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What Is Opportunity Cost

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What Is Opportunity Cost

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  1. There is nothing wrong with trying to make money . Indeed, the desire for gain is one of the most important elements in the workings of the market and the overall economy. The danger comes when it moves on furher to greed.
  2. People who don't care about money generally don't go into investing.

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The ranο»Ώdom walk hypothesis says a stock's price movements are of absolutely no help in predicting future movements. In other words, it's a random process, like tossing a coin. The hypothesis says, the fact that a stock's price has risen for the last ten days tells you nothing ...

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An excellent investor may be one who - rather than reporting higher returns than others - achieves the same return but does so with less risk or even achieves a slightly lower return with far less risk.ο»Ώ

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Inefficiency is a necessary condition for superior investing. Attempting to ο»Ώoutperform in a perfectly efficient market is like flipping a fair coin: the best you can hope for is fifty-fifty. For investors to get an edge, there have to be inefficiencies ...

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