If playing the stock market were an easy game, everyone would be rich. Whether an investor to chooses invest very actively, or long term, it is a game of mentality. During a economics course in college a professor will fill the board with algebraic expressions & economic gibberish, intended to explain exactly how the financial markets work. And if every investor were 100% rational; everything learned in financial economics would be true. The fact of the matter remains, very few people are rational when it comes to their finances. Anyo ....