The Fastest Way to Make Money on the Stock Market is Also the Most Boring

Clickbait titles will dwindle your equity and stress you out — do this instead

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Staying put and sitting still.

Marketing is not an exercise in charity or donation. Marketers are not trying to figure out how to best help you out. The entire industry is in the business of figuring out what you might click on, and, eventually, purchase.

They want your money.

I recently wrote about purchasing AMD and Netflix stock about 10 years ago.

In that piece, I documented all my reasoning for purchasing the two companies. I spent a little more than $30,000 I had saved at the time to buy them. Outside of buying more AMD stock as it fell over the years, I didn’t touch them.

In fact, for years sometimes, I didn’t look at the market. I had an alert set to tell me about crazy price spikes, and that was it.

Snapshot of trades from 2011. Netflix shares here are pre-split. In 2015, Netflix had a 7-for-1 split, meaning that those shares you see above were multiplied by 7.

Nobody will tell you those growth stories — usually, because nobody knows them. They’re captured in the buzz of the hour. AMD at $80 a share. Tesla skyrocketing to…