Jesse Livermore, a trader on Wall Street, once said, "There are only two emotions in the market - hope and fear." However, the list includes doubt, suspicion, caution, confidence, fear, panic, despair, etc

In most spheres of life & especially so in the stock markets, the basic truth is that everyone will always work for their own benefits. And for an investor, this is the first lesson to be learned.

To fix a financial problem, ask who profits from it, not who suffers

Most people's risk tolerance is actually zero. You could be financially very stable and yet be completely averse to the idea of losing money. The solution is to adopt time-based asset allocation.

When a label means everything and tells you nothing

A downgrade is a warning light — not an instruction to pull over.

If you define risk as volatility, then the stock markets are indeed very risky. But if you define risk as the probability of suffering a loss over the long term, then the risk is entirely manageable.

Everyone wants to know what to do in the stock market. Do this.