Chapter 8
Strategy Sufficiency
I discovered a passion for stock market trading six months before the big dot-com crash in March 2000. Online trading tools were growing dramatically in capability. I tentatively bought a few tech stocks, and within a few weeks they had doubled in value. Hmm, I thought, that’s encouraging; I should invest some more. I knew the looming risks of a market downturn and so decided on a couple of mutual funds instead of individual stocks for my next investment, which was much bigger. Three months later, the dot-com bubble burst and my total holding ended up at about half the value of my original investments. The mutual funds hadn’t been diverse enough. Thankfully, I hadn’t put too much into the stock market in total. ...
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