Th e oldest rule in investing is also the simplest: “Buy low; sell high.”
obvious— on the surface: it means that you
should buy something at a low price and sell it at a high price. But what, in turn, does that mean? What’s high, and what’s low?
On a superficial level, you can take it to mean that the goal is to buy something for less than you sell it for.
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