how the typical investor buys stocks

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billyjoerob

This is the inner conversation of every new buyer, not of one person:

Coiled spring baby, all the shorts are wrong! Tesla is awesome! Electric cars are the future! Wait till everybody else hears about this! Tesla will dominate the industry!! BMW is five years behind! Can you believe this stock, it's taking off! Squeeze the shorts! Got to get in now before it goes to $1000! I should've bought at $100! I was never that into solar, but maybe this is the real deal! Somebody knows something! This is going up in a straight line, can't lose! Buy now and sell fast! Man I always wanted to own Tesla, now is my chance! Missed my first chance at $100, but not this time! This is oversold, I'll play the bounce! $50 off! What a bargain! I'm holding for the long term, I don't care if I lose a few bucks! If this was worth $150, it's gotta be worth $50, right? Coiled spring baby, all the shorts are wrong!
 
Peter Lynch said years ago that the average investor spends more time researching a new refrigerator than he does potential stock buys. I can't see that anything has changed.
 
yes, elitists like to look down on "typical" stereotypes

makes them feel like they are in control

that's how all those "typical" elitists are

Have you ever noticed, in the 1970's, you could go to Las Vegas and see a whole casino full of white people, and nobody ever said, "Man, those white people sure like to gamble!"
 
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yes, elitists like to look down on "typical" stereotypes
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I don't think that's what I was getting at, but obviously that's what it looks like. Lots of people have made big $$$$ in Tesla, so props to them. They made the right trade. I was just trying to understand the rationale/mindset of the incremental buyer at each stage in the cycle.
 
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