Long shots almost always miss the mark.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

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Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.