I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

If stocks are attractive and you don't buy, you don't just look like an idiot, you are an idiot.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.