I'm a scrub when it comes to this whole investing thing. I know I am but I go here a good amount to learn how to be a better investor. I had my hopes up about the reading group one user was going to do with The Intelligent Investor and it didn't come to fruition. Which is sad because the minds on this sub are incredible but a lot of the threads that come up here are littered with answers related to "Vanguard index funds", "ETFs", and I'm so fucking happy we're not seeing a lot of cryptocurrency posts anymore but that was a big one also.
Investing, as far as my schmuck mind has gathered, is way more than just dropping money in index funds and ETFs and funds of various other goals. It, much to the chagrin of a lot of the people who do respond with the aforementioned responses such as "Vanguard", ETF, etc., includes picking individual stocks. Rallying around passive investing is good, yes, but let's be real for a good minute here: Are we going to listen? If anything some of you readers might be holding blue-chip stocks. Which is fine, but I want to know WHY you own them and have the ensuing discussion revolved around investing methods. So we can all learn why you picked this, hopefully not just because it's a blue-chip stock, but because there's a concise valuation you found within reading about the company that led you to believe your money would be best suited going to that company.
Let's create discussion around various methods of investing, picking out current and past investors and analyzing their methods, reading groups. I know I'm only getting started with this investing journey but my god its my money and I want to take it more fucking seriously than "Vanguard", "ETFs", "buy and hold", "bitcoin", and simplistic answers.
What do you think? What direction can we push the investing discussion(s) to? Where should it go? Where would you like it to go?
Submitted February 13, 2018 at 01:06PM by howtoreadspaghetti http://ift.tt/2nX1TR1
