My Secret Asset for Building Wealth

Year 1997, I was freshly minted engineering graduate, secured well paid job in my first month of final year, and thinking I was smarter than the rest. My final year was what we call “bindass, with damn care attitude”. I was young, naïve, and believed being above few hundred odds in my class is being equal to best. Reflecting back, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

This continued in my early years of investing which can be characterized as impatience, that extra energy to do something, and continuous urge to make an immediate impact or getting results. Like everybody else, I wanted to earn quick bucks and what better way than investing (or trading?) in stock market. You see, I was under the impression that making those few hundreds (or thousands) in small trades and repeating that often will increase my wealth. In other words, it will make me rich. How can that be wrong? After all, I am increasing my cash flow with small profits, isn’t it? Again, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Continue reading rest of this article…