The scaremongers are out again. I'm very fretful about the damage they could do to your net worth. Since anxiety is built into our amygdalas, we can't displace it entirely. But we can learn to redirect it. Let's look at three investor fears propagated by various doomsayers and see how to divert those fears into useful behavior. The high-frequency hype. Michael Lewis made a bestseller out of the theory that rapid-fire traders using well-placed computers are sucking the life out of the stock market, leaving nothing for the little guy. Well, if you trade in and out of your Tesla 300 times a day, you're at a disadvantage. But normal people shouldn't give the high-frequency crowd a second of thought.
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