Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.

You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

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

What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

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

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.