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The Mindless Investor Chapter 1: You Can Beat the Market – Chapter Review

Key Point #3: Use a System to Pick Stocks

Mindless Investor - Have a System

Lastly, having a system to navigate the choices out there is important to staying ahead of the curve.  Since a big part of trading depends on the analysis of potential opportunities, having a simple and efficient way to filter through stocks is crucial for smaller investors who simply don’t have the time or resources to conduct the kinds of research that their larger counterparts can.

 Important Jargon:

“Beating the market”: have your portfolio or trading performance exceed than that of a particular benchmark, such as the performance of the S&P 500, over the timeframe of interest.  For a fuller definition, click here.

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