{"id":1997681,"date":"2014-07-24T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T04:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=1997681"},"modified":"2014-09-09T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T06:27:39","slug":"8-hard-swallow-truths-investing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2014\/07\/24\/8-hard-swallow-truths-investing\/","title":{"rendered":"8 hard-to-swallow truths about investing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Brown has an interesting observation up on his tumbler page about what investors understand intellectually, but don’t accept in reality.<\/p>\n

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  1. Anyone can outperform at any time, no one can outperform all the time.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Persistence of performance is nearly non-existent.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Taxes and commissions matter.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Smart doesn\u2019t equal good.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Incentives matter.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The crowd is always at its most wrong at the worst possible time.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Fear is significantly more powerful than greed.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. There is no pleasure without the potential for pain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Source: Seven Truths Investors Simply Cannot Accept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Josh Brown has an interesting observation up on his tumbler page about what investors understand intellectually, but don’t accept in reality. Anyone can outperform at any time, no one can outperform all the time. Persistence of performance is nearly non-existent. Taxes and commissions matter. Smart doesn\u2019t equal good. Incentives matter. The crowd is always at … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3471,9],"tags":[3251],"class_list":["post-1997681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing-insight","category-your-money","tag-behavioral-finance","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}