Wow.
The ability to entice you in to reading this with both the weather and
something to worry about. It’s a great time for headline
writers. (The subject line of this was a real headline I saw this
morning). There’s nothing like anxiety to get us to
open up an article.
It’s
nice to have so many things to work on that I can avoid feeding my anxiety
and instead end each day with a feeling of making positive, forward
progress. I’ll be in St Louis at the end of this week for the
BetterInvesting National Convention. I hope to see some of
you there. It’s much more useful to be spending time
learning about investing and trying to do it yourself than to feel helpless
when faced with the barrage of negative news. I’ve been
working on your Quest for Positive Relative Returns graphs this weekend and the
results are very interesting. There is enough variety in
the results to make it clear to me that investing is something you can learn
to be successful at.
You’re
doing the right thing by participating in an investment club. Let’s
make a vow not to worry and not to let the headlines get to us.
Let’s just have fun learning how to do this together.