Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

  Why do so few succeed in the stock market and so many fail?  We interview the man who literally wrote the book on the subject, author Steve Sears. One of our favorite quotes in from Warren Buffet, “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”  But that takes balls and his willingness to buy fear is one of the reasons he has amassed a fortune. We advocate long term investing and that strategy is better and more successful than jumping in and out of the market.  So why do so many people do that?  They’re driven by what they hear and read in the news and follow the “market mob.”  They hear about a fast rising stock and jump on it without doing even the most rudimentary research.  A successful investor stays away from this like the plague.  Until the stock bottoms out, that’s when they buy. Fifty percent of your gains will come from doing nothing.  Buy stocks that pay steady dividends and make them the foundation of your portfolio. Bad investors think of ways to make money and good