The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks,… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You, your employer and your plan's investment managers fail to follow even the most basic rules of investing. You overtrade, chase performance,… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
