Whenever the equity markets hit a new high, it brings along
with it a unique set of challenges for investors.
Often many of these challenges are self-inflicted and easily
avoidable, humans are anything but simple though.
Investors tend to grapple with fearing a market crash to
pondering over an exit with the intent to re-enter the markets at an imaginary
low.
Such scenarios have their origin in the belief that making
money in the market means buying low and selling high, a very easy method to
spot a trader in the garb of an investor.
If you are a long term investor but at the same time if your
opinion and beliefs can be swayed easily by market movements then maybe you
are not one but how does one wake up someone pretending to be asleep but not
asleep?
Equity Investing is simple but not easy, the inability to
discern between the two and the urge to reinvent the wheel often leads one in a
soup.