The 12 Investment Myths: Why Individual Investors Are Failing Miserably and How You Can Avoid Being One of Them

The stock market has never lost money for anyone. But millions of people have lost money in the stock market.

Sound like double-speak to you? It’s not. The fact is that if your holding period is long enough and your investment strategy prudent enough, you can overcome even the most extreme market volatility and bide your time while the stock market works to make you wealthy.

To accomplish this, however, you must confront and overcome a collection of common myths that seem quite logical but ar...