"You can't put your eggs in the same basket" is a philosophical saying in the famous book "Don Quixote", but it has been widely used in the investment field of economics. Economics believes that if you put all your eggs in the same basket, the risk will be great. Because if this basket is smashed, then all the eggs will be broken. In order to avoid this all-lose situation, the safest way is to put your eggs in different baskets.
Even if the eggs in one basket are broken, there are still eggs in other baskets, which reduces the risk.
Xiaoqiang is a typical example of putting all his eggs in one basket and losing both.
Xiaoqiang is a person who is afraid of poverty. When I heard from a friend that a certain person earned a house by trading in the stock market, and a certain person earned a "Crown", he did not hesitate to invest all his savings of more than 30,000 yuan in the stock market. He also wanted to rely on this. Make a small profit.
When Xiaoqiang first entered the stock market, he knew nothing about stocks. He only knew the simple addition and subtraction method of "buy stocks and sell them when they rise." I don’t know whether stocks will rise, when they will rise, or how to analyze and judge stocks from macroeconomic fundamentals, policies, microeconomics, and various technical indicators of stocks.
He would buy whichever one others said was better. Although sometimes this method was quite effective, over time he realized that what he had tasted was a small sweetness and a big pain. Xiaoqiang didn't know these taboos when he first started, so he often received almost the last blow. The one who shoots out quickly is a bit of a petty profit, but the one who shoots a little slower will be deeply trapped. In that foolhardy early stage of stock trading, he suffered enough from his lack of knowledge.
When Xiaoqiang first entered the stock market, he only focused on "making money" and did not carefully study the rules of the stock market or learn about the stock market. The result was that after buying stocks, he saw other people's stocks rising every day. , and my own is just lying there, even if my own stocks rise, it is not much faster than a snail crawling. When he exhausted all his energy from waiting, he felt restless and uneasy, so he simply sold the "dead horses" and "lame horses" in his hands and bought other "mad cows". The result can be imagined. When Xiaoqiang went to buy, the "mad cow" dived hard, but the "dead horse" and "lame horse" that had just been sold came back to life, and even extended the positive line. He quickly and without any thought abandoned the "cow" for the "horse".
The result of this kind of rushing left and right made Xiaoqiang lose miserably. After a few months, not only was there not much money in his stock account, but there was also a loss of several thousand yuan.
As the saying goes, "Where you fell, you have to get up." Xiaoqiang finally got the idea after paying thousands of dollars in "tuition fees." He began to learn some economics and stock market knowledge, and also changed his mind. own investment style.
Xiaoqiang learned self-analysis and judgment from those books and other people’s experiences, and then integrated his own opinions and methods to trade stocks without believing anyone’s words. He began to study the stock market carefully every day, check news information, and then diversify his investments. Two months later, a miracle happened: two stocks he bought suddenly rose sharply. After deducting the losses caused by small declines in other stocks, he made a net profit of more than 10,000 yuan.
The above example is very typical. It represents the behavior of a large number of people who have just entered the stock market. In fact, as far as stocks are concerned, if you only buy one stock and it happens to rise sharply, you will make a lot, but the chance is very small. Moreover, if this stock plummets, you will face the crisis of falling directly to the bottom and never being able to recover. But if you buy ten different stocks, while it's unlikely that each one will go up, it's also unlikely that each one will go down. Even after the rise and fall of ten stocks offset each other, there is usually only a small profit or loss.
In this way, we can draw the conclusion from this example: diversification of investments can make the uncertainty of the results smaller, which means that the risk is reduced.
Of course, if you want to achieve the goal of nipping risks in the cradle, it is not enough to just buy a few more investment tools. You must also selectively buy some assets with low linkage. In fact, from an economic perspective, the linkage between assets is an important factor affecting the risk of an investment portfolio. Moreover, as the types of investment instruments purchased continue to emerge, the risk impact of the linkage between assets on the overall investment portfolio will also increase.
From here we can see the brilliance of diversified investment: in the face of turbulent situations, diversified investment can be diversified in different investment tools, or it can be diversified in investment time, or it can be It is a diversification of investment areas, but its purpose is the same, which is to offset risks and allow investors to enjoy safer average returns with confidence.
Some people once said that the RMB will most likely cause a large number of bad debts in banks due to the inflated domestic housing prices. In order to achieve certain goals, the country has to print a large amount of money to cope with it. Therefore, the result is that the people holding bankbooks are run on and the RMB depreciates.
What if the same principle applies to the US dollar? Trillions of U.S. dollars are being lost to all parts of the world. Once something happens to the United States, the only result will be that a large number of U.S. dollars will inevitably be swept away in the U.S. physical market, causing the dollar to depreciate.
From the actual situation, we know that the big conglomerates and big capitalists in the United States do everything for money, and they will not consider the interests of others except themselves. What they are really doing is to inflate the dollar and then sell it at a high level. And what about those small capitalists? Small capital is often eaten to the bone by big capital, but they can only endure it because they have no choice. If big capital targets the RMB, which has certain problems of its own, then if you choose the U.S. dollar and abandon the RMB, you will make a lot of money. If you do the opposite, you will lose everything.
An assumption can be made here: If big capitalists dislike the U.S. dollar and have the urge to attack the U.S. dollar, then if you abandon the U.S. dollar in the early stage, you will make a lot of money. Otherwise, you will lose money greatly. In fact, this principle is the same as that of the stock market. Only by following the big bookmakers can the money come rolling in.
People usually call "buying something below cost and selling it at a high price" investment. But there is also a premise here, that is, the things purchased must be low-cost. If you buy something at a higher price than the cost and then sell it at a higher price, then this behavior is not called investment but speculation. The difference between the two for buyers is this: if you cannot sell your things, then the things in your hands are not worth the original price, and you will suffer a big loss.
The ironclad facts tell people that plundering the wealth of the poor by manipulating the relationship between supply and demand is the essential attribute of big capital and big consortiums. Ordinary people have no idea whether the target of these capital-controlling groups' attacks and speculations is the housing market or the stock market, the U.S. dollar, gold, or the RMB.
Faced with such a cruel reality, ordinary people must master some investment directions and skills. Here is a simple analogy: If you have a capital of 10,000 RMB, then you can save 1,000 RMB in RMB, convert 1,000 RMB into U.S. dollars, invest another 1,000 RMB in the stock market, invest another 1,000 RMB in the real estate market, and then buy another 1,000 RMB. gold jewelry. In short, the purpose is to break up the 10,000 yuan and invest it separately. Only in this way can capital be diversified to reduce risks and achieve stability along the way.
The above has discussed a lot of theory and cited many examples. It is just to illustrate a truth: when investing, the most taboo thing is to put all the treasure on one project. As the saying goes, "Everyone prospers, everyone loses." Although there may be situations in investment that make investors suddenly rich, in most cases the risks taken are too great. Moreover, once this risk occurs, it will be irreversible. . Therefore, investment needs to be cautious and eggs must be placed separately.