One of the main things I tell my clients once we have carefully invested their money is to stop listening to what they hear on the news. Many people feel you need to carefully listen to the finance report to have your ‘ear to the ground’ as a ‘savvy investor’. It’s actually the opposite. You need to have a long term plan and discipline not to react to everything you hear.
He is a little video with a few finance report sound bites from the last year.
We've all heard about the "billions wiped off the sharemarket" on down days, but down days constitute about 33% of trading days. What happens the rest of the time? Well the media's not telling you the full story.