为什么要投资买股票?答案是因为要抗通胀。通胀有多厉害,我想大家都有切身体会的。据说二十世纪八十年代初,通货膨胀超过10%。从历史角度,从1962年到2021年,平均通货膨胀率是4%,其中邮票的通胀率是4.5%。1962年一封普通信件的需要一张$0.04的邮票,到2021年,它涨到$0.78,也就是近60年里涨了近20倍。而你如果持有股票,指数基金,比如S&P 500,它在至2021年的二十年里,平均增长率是9.68%。 所以投资是hedge inflation的有效途径,通俗地说,你的钱不是死钱,它跟着inflation一起水涨船高,一起升值。所谓的cash is trash说的大概就是这个意思,投资了才能钱生钱。
当然, 你如果上网去查一下S&P500近六十年的曲线图,你可以看见有些年的投资回报是负的,是赔钱的。所以又有了Cash is king的说法:)
在书中,作者把从二战结束开始到2020s年做了一个分期总结:
Era I: The Age of Comfort 舒适时代,指二战后,after World War II, 1947-1968, dividend yields were unusually high at 5% (p.333)
Era II: The Age of Angst 焦虑时代,指late 1960s—early 1980s
By the end of 1981, the U.S. economy suffered not only from double-digit inflation but from double-digit unemployment as well. (P. 336)
Era III: The Age of Exuberance 繁盛时代是指 1982—early 2000 , a golden Age of financial asset returns, with both stocks and bonds producing unusually generous rates of return.
Era IV: The Age of Disenchantment 祛魅时时代/幻灭时代 (Apr 2000 -- Mar 2009): “the lost decade”, or “the naughties”, worst decades for the stock market ever recorded. The Internet bubble was followed by a crushing bear market.
最后,作者没有冠名,统称为The markets from 2009 to 2022,跟前面的Era III类似,是个好时光。Through January of 2022, equities produced an average annual return of almost 17.5 percent despite a hiccup in early 2020 as Covid disrupted economic activity. Thus, stocks produced a real rate of return as large as they did during Era III, the era I called the age of exuberance. (p. 343)
买指数是一个稳定的投资策略,从作者50年前倡导这个投资理念直至今日,说了13版,他也一定从不断再版中赚到了钱。但是就如网友chenm(谢谢网友)在留言中说的,还有一本书叫A Non-random Walk Down Wall Street, 大约是反驳作者这一投资策略的书吧,由此可知,天下没有universal formula, 专家权威也只能代表一种声音。而我真正佩服的是那些已经从股市中赚得盆满钵满的人,如我身边的一个朋友,不张扬,悄悄地就把钱赚了。我还清楚地记得她跟我说过的一句话,“买QQQ不如买QQQ里最顶尖的几只股”, 也就是后来人们说的,Magnificent 7, 而就是这样的认知让她早已财务自由了。
所以,真正投资做得好的人不一定是有理论指导,也不一定是读了什么书的。作者书中引用这样一句话,“Sturgeon’s law, coined by the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon states, “95 percent of everything you hear or read is crap.” That is certainly true in the investment world, but I sincerely believe that what you read here falls into the category of the other 5%. 翻译过来就是,市面上有95%的书和信息是没有价值的,希望自己的书属于另外的5%。
所以,还是实践出真知。
不过,要赞同书中这样一句话, Some things in life can never fully be appreciated or understood by a virgin。人生就是体验,体验过的人生才丰富,而投资可谓是人生的一大体验。每个人可以根据自己的承受能力,用作者的话就是,sleeping point,找到让你高枕无忧、你能承受的投资策略。
回复 '林向田' 的评论 : 林兄好!林兄这里说的自然是对的,我还特意去Deepseek查了查,看看它能提供什么的解释。它也认为你这种说法“holds a great deal of truth“,但是认为90%是过高了点,但是你说的投资风险管理确实很重要,也借机提醒投资人谨慎行之。谢谢林兄,新周愉快!
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同意这句话:人生富贵有天,财富高低或许命中注定吧!
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Stock Trading is 90% risk management, regardless of your strategy.
大部分人是不能很好地控制风险的。
为什么要投资买股票?答案是因为要抗通胀。通胀有多厉害,我想大家都有切身体会的。据说二十世纪八十年代初,通货膨胀超过10%。从历史角度,从1962年到2021年,平均通货膨胀率是4%,其中邮票的通胀率是4.5%。1962年一封普通信件的需要一张$0.04的邮票,到2021年,它涨到$0.78,也就是近60年里涨了近20倍。而你如果持有股票,指数基金,比如S&P 500,它在至2021年的二十年里,平均增长率是9.68%。 所以投资是hedge inflation的有效途径,通俗地说,你的钱不是死钱,它跟着inflation一起水涨船高,一起升值。所谓的cash is trash说的大概就是这个意思,投资了才能钱生钱。
当然, 你如果上网去查一下S&P500近六十年的曲线图,你可以看见有些年的投资回报是负的,是赔钱的。所以又有了Cash is king的说法:)
在书中,作者把从二战结束开始到2020s年做了一个分期总结:
Era I: The Age of Comfort 舒适时代,指二战后,after World War II, 1947-1968, dividend yields were unusually high at 5% (p.333)
Era II: The Age of Angst 焦虑时代,指late 1960s—early 1980s
By the end of 1981, the U.S. economy suffered not only from double-digit inflation but from double-digit unemployment as well. (P. 336)
Era III: The Age of Exuberance 繁盛时代是指 1982—early 2000 , a golden Age of financial asset returns, with both stocks and bonds producing unusually generous rates of return.
Era IV: The Age of Disenchantment 祛魅时时代/幻灭时代 (Apr 2000 -- Mar 2009): “the lost decade”, or “the naughties”, worst decades for the stock market ever recorded. The Internet bubble was followed by a crushing bear market.
最后,作者没有冠名,统称为The markets from 2009 to 2022,跟前面的Era III类似,是个好时光。Through January of 2022, equities produced an average annual return of almost 17.5 percent despite a hiccup in early 2020 as Covid disrupted economic activity. Thus, stocks produced a real rate of return as large as they did during Era III, the era I called the age of exuberance. (p. 343)
买指数是一个稳定的投资策略,从作者50年前倡导这个投资理念直至今日,说了13版,他也一定从不断再版中赚到了钱。但是就如网友chenm(谢谢网友)在留言中说的,还有一本书叫A Non-random Walk Down Wall Street, 大约是反驳作者这一投资策略的书吧,由此可知,天下没有universal formula, 专家权威也只能代表一种声音。而我真正佩服的是那些已经从股市中赚得盆满钵满的人,如我身边的一个朋友,不张扬,悄悄地就把钱赚了。我还清楚地记得她跟我说过的一句话,“买QQQ不如买QQQ里最顶尖的几只股”, 也就是后来人们说的,Magnificent 7, 而就是这样的认知让她早已财务自由了。
所以,真正投资做得好的人不一定是有理论指导,也不一定是读了什么书的。作者书中引用这样一句话,“Sturgeon’s law, coined by the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon states, “95 percent of everything you hear or read is crap.” That is certainly true in the investment world, but I sincerely believe that what you read here falls into the category of the other 5%. 翻译过来就是,市面上有95%的书和信息是没有价值的,希望自己的书属于另外的5%。
所以,还是实践出真知。
不过,要赞同书中这样一句话, Some things in life can never fully be appreciated or understood by a virgin。人生就是体验,体验过的人生才丰富,而投资可谓是人生的一大体验。每个人可以根据自己的承受能力,用作者的话就是,sleeping point,找到让你高枕无忧、你能承受的投资策略。