What Does the Average Investor Need to Know About Stocks?
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DIY Money | Personal Finance, Budgeting, Debt, Savings, Investing
20 min
4 speakers
4 chapters
transcribed 1 month ago
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How did the hosts introduce the episode and set the tone?
Hey, this is Allie, and thanks for listening to the show. Give us a five-star review where you listen and share this episode with someone who might need to hear it. Now, enjoy the show. Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to another edition of DIY Money. DIY Money.
I think we have to update the people because I was just listening to a recent episode we did. We talked about our cornhole game.
Oh. Why? Why? I was over that. I was not even thinking about that. The people want to know. The people want to know that, okay, we are great in prelims. Prelims win. We are phenomenal in shoot-arounds. Yes. Practice. Fire. We're talking about practice. Fire. I mean, so here we are in this cornhole tournament. It was moved inside, by the way, so I can't use elements as an excuse. Lighting wasn't great. Lighting? Okay, lighting, I could give you that. Lighting wasn't great. Ultimately, we go through the preliminary round absolutely dynamite. We are ranked second going into the single elimination tournament.
No one scored more than four points.
And when I say second, I mean there's like 20 teams, maybe 30 teams. We are ranked second in the kind of round-robin-esque area. You play a bunch of games, yada, yada. I would say the only reason we weren't first is because we didn't play that team. Let's just face it. We didn't play that team. And so we're ranked second. We get a bye, as we should, some time to eat our food, whatever. And then it's like, oh, now we play. And the very first game we were dynamite.
Sure.
I mean, it was like no pressure, but the other team, they fell apart too. I don't know what happened to them, but they were throwing bags left and right. And then game two. I mean, we absolutely fell apart. It was I don't even know what to say. We both were bad and we should have won and we didn't. And then we are done. Like, it's like done. We're done.
If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential to be the best that you can be. I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners.
Yeah, and then we just sat there staring at the wall for about 10 minutes. Yeah, and finally we're like, let's leave. We don't even care who wins.
So that's the second year in a row that we have started strong. I mean, the bottom line is we're going to have to practice. We have to practice. We're going to have to practice, and then we're going to have to bet each other $100 a throw or something to get some pressure on the game. We're going to have to do something because we choked.
We choked.
Let's call it what it is. Gosh. Pain. Thanks. Now I'm all bent out of shape again. Let's just go right to the question. Darn it. KJ, what do you got?
D-I-Y. Hey, Quentin team. It's your guy KJ from Chicago. You said you need more questions, so here I am. Please don't think I'm trying to monopolize the queue. I have a two-part question about what I need to know slash what I should know as an average to above average investor. By average investor, I mean I'm a homeowner. I have a 401k in which I have funds in both mutual funds and individual stocks. Every week I watch a few hours of Bloomberg and CNBC. And of course, I listen to DIY Money podcast. I have an emergency fund and a few thousand dollars in an after tax brokerage account specific to the brokerage account and buying individual stocks. How should analyst price targets factor into my decision to sell?
As a person who cannot devote more time into research and watching the market, I need cheat sheets, but I also need to filter out the noise. Can you help me know if I should follow price targets and buy slash sell slash hold ratings? And how do I build safeguards if so? Thank you again.
Okay, KJ, I love this question because you're speaking my love language here. So first of all, KJ with the squad, I love it. KJ and I could hang out. He's from Chicago. Next time I'm in Chicago, which is hardly ever, I try desperately not to fly through ORD. But if I'm in your neck of the woods, KJ, we're hanging out. There's no question about it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did the hosts introduce the episode and set the tone?
0:01–8:26
2
What listener question about average investors and stock ownership kicks off the discussion?
8:26–16:31
3
Why do the hosts say individual stock ownership requires real work and what risk rules do they recommend?
16:31–18:49
4
How should average investors treat analyst price targets and which analysts do the hosts trust?
18:49–19:57