Fundamental Analysis vs Technical Analysis 🤔

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Short version…

Q1. Why do you want to learn about the stock market?

Q2. How much time do you have?

Long version...

To learn,
Pursue whichever you are able to consistently spend time and stick-to for several months / few years.

To earn,
Do both. All the time.

:bulb: Cannot? Not enough time?
There you go… Congratulations! :medal_sports:
Armed with this single bit of insight,
you are now one step ahead of the rest of the folks trying to make money from the markets.

Since, not enough time,
do as much of the learning above,
and while you are at it,

  • invest your capital into passive instruments and diversify.
    • cannot subdue the “itch” to actively participate in financial markets?
      • Use your convictions to bias a small percent (say 10-15) of your passive portfolio,
        rebalance each year, and whenever the “itch” needs scratching.

Doing all this already? Excellent :nerd_face::+1:t3:

:information_source: The general consensus, without knowing anyone’s specific circumstances,
is that it is almost always extremely likely that
there are other activities that one can pursue
that offer a higher chance of higher financial returns,
for the time that one can afford to invest.

Do you have any marketable skill? (or expect to gain any?)
or be socially productive in any manner?

IMHO, for most folks, the better RoI of one’s time is investing in oneself to learn a vocation and be productive.

Oh, but participating in financial markets IS your skill-set, you say?

To be consistently effective,
in addition to FA and TA,
i hope your particular set of skills include -

  • risk-management, asset-allocation, position sizing, …
  • patience, discipline, avoiding FOMO, constantly reviewing mistakes, …
  • back-testing, paper-trading, understanding market-cycles, …
  • understanding execution-impact, taxation, other charges, …
  • < and a reasonable level of expertise in a dozen other activities you come across while doing the above >

…and at the end of it all, have significant capital to deploy,
to make any meaningful difference financially.

So, one way to get the “best of both worlds”
is to pursue such financial awareness
while one is productively engaged in other pursuits,
and is earning an income not linked to the markets
and contributing to building-up one’s capital.

Still working on your ability to ignore the high-risk-potentially-high-reward asset-classes?
While you work that out, maybe can deploy a barbell
with a tiny part of your portfolio invested in / exposed to such risky assets.

Find yourself in quite different circumstances than the ones described above?
Go ahead… What’s different?.. :thinking:

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