為什麽要投資買股票?答案是因為要抗通脹。通脹有多厲害,我想大家都有切身體會的。據說二十世紀八十年代初,通貨膨脹超過10%。從曆史角度,從1962年到2021年,平均通貨膨脹率是4%,其中郵票的通脹率是4.5%。1962年一封普通信件的需要一張$0.04的郵票,到2021年,它漲到$0.78,也就是近60年裏漲了近20倍。而你如果持有股票,指數基金,比如S&P 500,它在至2021年的二十年裏,平均增長率是9.68%。 所以投資是hedge inflation的有效途徑,通俗地說,你的錢不是死錢,它跟著inflation一起水漲船高,一起升值。所謂的cash is trash說的大概就是這個意思,投資了才能錢生錢。
當然, 你如果上網去查一下S&P500近六十年的曲線圖,你可以看見有些年的投資回報是負的,是賠錢的。所以又有了Cash is king的說法:)
在書中,作者把從二戰結束開始到2020s年做了一個分期總結:
Era I: The Age of Comfort 舒適時代,指二戰後,after World War II, 1947-1968, dividend yields were unusually high at 5% (p.333)
Era II: The Age of Angst 焦慮時代,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 繁盛時代是指 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 祛魅時時代/幻滅時代 (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.
最後,作者沒有冠名,統稱為The markets from 2009 to 2022,跟前麵的Era III類似,是個好時光。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)
買指數是一個穩定的投資策略,從作者50年前倡導這個投資理念直至今日,說了13版,他也一定從不斷再版中賺到了錢。但是就如網友chenm(謝謝網友)在留言中說的,還有一本書叫A Non-random Walk Down Wall Street, 大約是反駁作者這一投資策略的書吧,由此可知,天下沒有universal formula, 專家權威也隻能代表一種聲音。而我真正佩服的是那些已經從股市中賺得盆滿缽滿的人,如我身邊的一個朋友,不張揚,悄悄地就把錢賺了。我還清楚地記得她跟我說過的一句話,“買QQQ不如買QQQ裏最頂尖的幾隻股”, 也就是後來人們說的,Magnificent 7, 而就是這樣的認知讓她早已財務自由了。
所以,真正投資做得好的人不一定是有理論指導,也不一定是讀了什麽書的。作者書中引用這樣一句話,“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%. 翻譯過來就是,市麵上有95%的書和信息是沒有價值的,希望自己的書屬於另外的5%。
所以,還是實踐出真知。
不過,要讚同書中這樣一句話, Some things in life can never fully be appreciated or understood by a virgin。人生就是體驗,體驗過的人生才豐富,而投資可謂是人生的一大體驗。每個人可以根據自己的承受能力,用作者的話就是,sleeping point,找到讓你高枕無憂、你能承受的投資策略。
回複 '林向田' 的評論 : 林兄好!林兄這裏說的自然是對的,我還特意去Deepseek查了查,看看它能提供什麽的解釋。它也認為你這種說法“holds a great deal of truth“,但是認為90%是過高了點,但是你說的投資風險管理確實很重要,也借機提醒投資人謹慎行之。謝謝林兄,新周愉快!
joycewu12 發表評論於
同意這句話:人生富貴有天,財富高低或許命中注定吧!
加一句:知足常樂!
林向田 發表評論於
Stock Trading is 90% risk management, regardless of your strategy.
大部分人是不能很好地控製風險的。
為什麽要投資買股票?答案是因為要抗通脹。通脹有多厲害,我想大家都有切身體會的。據說二十世紀八十年代初,通貨膨脹超過10%。從曆史角度,從1962年到2021年,平均通貨膨脹率是4%,其中郵票的通脹率是4.5%。1962年一封普通信件的需要一張$0.04的郵票,到2021年,它漲到$0.78,也就是近60年裏漲了近20倍。而你如果持有股票,指數基金,比如S&P 500,它在至2021年的二十年裏,平均增長率是9.68%。 所以投資是hedge inflation的有效途徑,通俗地說,你的錢不是死錢,它跟著inflation一起水漲船高,一起升值。所謂的cash is trash說的大概就是這個意思,投資了才能錢生錢。
當然, 你如果上網去查一下S&P500近六十年的曲線圖,你可以看見有些年的投資回報是負的,是賠錢的。所以又有了Cash is king的說法:)
在書中,作者把從二戰結束開始到2020s年做了一個分期總結:
Era I: The Age of Comfort 舒適時代,指二戰後,after World War II, 1947-1968, dividend yields were unusually high at 5% (p.333)
Era II: The Age of Angst 焦慮時代,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 繁盛時代是指 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 祛魅時時代/幻滅時代 (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.
最後,作者沒有冠名,統稱為The markets from 2009 to 2022,跟前麵的Era III類似,是個好時光。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)
買指數是一個穩定的投資策略,從作者50年前倡導這個投資理念直至今日,說了13版,他也一定從不斷再版中賺到了錢。但是就如網友chenm(謝謝網友)在留言中說的,還有一本書叫A Non-random Walk Down Wall Street, 大約是反駁作者這一投資策略的書吧,由此可知,天下沒有universal formula, 專家權威也隻能代表一種聲音。而我真正佩服的是那些已經從股市中賺得盆滿缽滿的人,如我身邊的一個朋友,不張揚,悄悄地就把錢賺了。我還清楚地記得她跟我說過的一句話,“買QQQ不如買QQQ裏最頂尖的幾隻股”, 也就是後來人們說的,Magnificent 7, 而就是這樣的認知讓她早已財務自由了。
所以,真正投資做得好的人不一定是有理論指導,也不一定是讀了什麽書的。作者書中引用這樣一句話,“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%. 翻譯過來就是,市麵上有95%的書和信息是沒有價值的,希望自己的書屬於另外的5%。
所以,還是實踐出真知。
不過,要讚同書中這樣一句話, Some things in life can never fully be appreciated or understood by a virgin。人生就是體驗,體驗過的人生才豐富,而投資可謂是人生的一大體驗。每個人可以根據自己的承受能力,用作者的話就是,sleeping point,找到讓你高枕無憂、你能承受的投資策略。