If you look at s&p 500 stocks weight for instance, at number 483 is Rollins inc, weight 0.019938%. Do you know this company? But everyone here if you have invested in s&p 500 has invested in this stocks. The way s&p 500 works is it picks stocks based on market cap. Now this company has a very low chance of getting kicked out even if it is a dud as people keep investing in it via ETF's
Here lies the opportunity. If you go through every company in s&p 500 you are going to find overvalued and undervalued stocks. One strategy is to pair trade. Take a long/short position. But it is very tough to time as every keeps investing every month. Other strategy is wait for a crash and instead of again investing in these ETF's for small returns pick stocks that got battered for no reason. This has inspired me to actually work a bit, actually looks at balance sheets and pick stocks.
Side note, i only own one etf and it is PTF. It has very little stocks and i think focused funds are a better bet.
I think all these examples are of thinking too much. Why not just this very moment do something you feel like. Then the next and then the next. Go learn surfing, call your child and if you are too lazy then just accept you don't care about that stuff as much and do what you care about. You care about netflix then watch netflix. Don't do what you think society or other people think is cool.
If we are completely present in the now and doing what feel rights. There is no room for all these negative thoughts.
You think too highly of yourself. Why do you think whatever you create is something special. It's most likely Shit. There is freedom in knowing you are one in 7 billion.
Real creation happens when you give freedom to your mind to do whatever it wants to. There is no time constraint, no feeling that i need to get this done. It's spontaneous. You are following someone else's script here. You are equating activity with accomplishment
I am just proposing a different point of view and i am not claiming what i am saying is right. I am here to learn and what you say makes sense. Your point about adults learn slow is it because that't what the popular opinion is and that is the reason they tell themselves, "oh, i am a grown up so i am going to learn slowly"?
how has science determined that? consciousness is subjective so they are depending on what people have said to them. The mind of scientist and the person they are observing are at play here.
Please enlighten me. I want to be educated. According to me our mind is very fluid. We can teach it to behave a certain way. I do not believe that someone is awkward socially or cannot get caught in mania etc just because they are the way they are. All of this is learned behavior according to me. Why is it that most of these people are in the US? It seems to me because the environment makes people act this way. I do not think that this is because of genetics. If we mediate then we can look at the mind as an observer and change most if not all of our behavior. When someone gets a diagnosis for say ADHD. Then they exhibit those symptoms even more because they reinforce that behavior.
put these people in a situation that the only way to survive is to socialize, i am pretty sure they will be very charming because we are capable of doing a lot if our survival is at stake.
Here i am not talking about people with mental illness. Those i understand. Please help me understand this
I am not an idiot. Of course we are causing climate to change for the worse.
I don't trust everyone out there though. Most scientist and media people have a self serving attitude. They just want clicks
I know the mistake was very costly and we are talking about lives here. But, come on.. is there a chance people are over analyzing. We can try hard and do everything right and still something can go wrong.
They are humans and the airplanes from Boeing have been very very very reliable. It's not like every max 8 dropped from the air. A lot of them, most of them flew alright. I know the people who lost their lives paid a big price but, in hindsight everyone has an opinion.
I think you are confusing risk with speculation. Every investment has risks associated with it. Even if a stock pays dividend does not mean it will keep paying it for perpetuity. Nothing is guaranteed.
Every asset that produces an Income or has a possibility of producing income in the future is an investment. Everything else is speculation.
Buying a commercial property and renting it out is an investment. Buying a house in the hope of selling it for more in the future is not investment.
Same goes for Gold, Bitcoin, momentum trading in stocks in not investment. Buying a stock that does not pay dividend but is a real business that produces something is an investment.