“Always seeing an illusion, you can’t win” - A column currently published on ToyoKeizai Online

Good morning, this is Matsushita.

Every Saturday is a 【Column】

the update day for Makoto Matsushita's Investment Exploration.

Today's theme is "Illusion".

So far, I have met directly with more than 10,000

individual investors,

and many investors have had their eyes and hearts

taken by illusions.

If what you are seeing and what you are aiming for

is an illusion, you will never achieve your desires.

In this way, many investors

are unable to achieve the goal of making profits,

and they leave after losing money.

Please read the column to confirm whether you, too, are being grasped by an illusion.

【Column】 Makoto Matsushita's Investment Exploration

No. 193 "Illusion"

Illusion is imagining something that does not exist as if it does.

(From Digital Daijisen) In investing, individual investors

hold illusions. That illusion is the belief that profits can only be made with some special or unique method or technique,

and that there exists a method or technique that is extremely low in risk

yet yields large profits.

In investing, it is not only special or unique methods or techniques that can generate profits.

General investment theories, technical indicators, etc., if practiced faithfully to the basics,

can all generate profits. And there are no technologies or techniques that are incredibly low in risk and enormously profitable.

Every theory, technique, and method has risks, and

it is not that profits will be enormous; profits come only occasionally, sometimes yielding substantial gains.

There is no path to enormous profits.

Those who chase illusions will never be able to achieve hopes, desires, or goals,

because there is no substance behind them.

If you want to profit in investing, do not be misled by illusions;

see the substance of investing. Only then will your path to profits begin.