Healthy, Wealthy and wise !
Today the media will have a field day as equities crashed by over ‘1000’ points or 3% to put it correctly !. These are normal and Prashanth Krishnan in twitter mentioned that this has happened 55 odd times in last 15 years, I’m sure you don’t remember the last 3% fall, forget the first one !! Media works on the principle of bad news being good news for their business, more people watch TV and they can get more TRPs and advertisements which is more money for them.
As an investor, we make money by staying invested, ignoring the headlines and if at all there is a serious fall ( say 20% from top) Â investing more if possible. We don’t make money by following headlines, in fact serious research has shown regularly following media ( be it on markets or politics is injurious to both your health and wealth, not to mention wasting precious time !) .
Be healthy, wealthy and wise !
Healthy – instead of seeing TV debates on politics, go for a walk !
Wealthy – instead of listening to “experts” on business channels, keep investing via SIP
Wise – Doing the above two will make you wise than most people you know !!
If you don’t believe me listen to what M/s Peter Lynch & Warren Buffett have to say on the subj. 🙂