Timeline for Is it a lie that you can easily make money passively in the stock market?
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| Apr 21, 2018 at 0:13 | comment | added | Andrew Lazarus | More businesses fail than succeed. The friends who failed didn't tell you. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 18:56 | comment | added | jpaugh | Concerning the last paragraph, that makes sense. Investing directly in a (small) business is riskier than investing in the stock market, and if it did not have higher gain potential, then it would not justify the risk. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | jpaugh | Passive Income | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 17:34 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica♦ | Point 2 is thought provoking. My “passive investing” means I’m not laboring. I am the passive one. It’s not as if the phrase means there’s no work done. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Point 2 is irrelevant. "Passive investing" doesn't mean "nobody does any work" it means " you don't actively manage your investments in the short term". For point 3, while you may be 'overwhelmed' by the idea of making investments and then leaving them to grow for the long term, most people are not. And if you are overwhelmed by that then you are going to be even worse about actively managing your portfolio. For your last paragraph, nobody claims passive investment always does as well as active (done well!), just that it is possible to make money. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 14:32 | comment | added | Sneftel | It sounds like you're arguing against investing in general, not against investing in index funds. | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 14:29 | history | answered | Ms Jackson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |