Reblog: 6 Things I Learned From Big Mistakes
Michael Batnick’s new book, Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments came out this week.
There are far too many investing books that dissect the past successes of history’s greatest investors. These books make it easy for investors to assume emulating these greats should be effortless. I know that’s what I thought when I read about Buffett and Graham when I first started investing.
Most investors would be far better off trying to avoid mistakes than replicate their favorite billionaire’s track record. This book chronicles every mistake imaginable in the markets and it does so in a refreshing way by showing even the most intelligent among us screw up.
Here are six things I learned from the book: