“Is the real test coming when?” a column currently published on Toyo Keizai ONLINE

Hello, this is Matsushita.

Individual investors invest to make profits,

to grow their money through investing.

The real test is,

the time when money actually grows substantially,

when do you think that is?

It is five years from now,

ten years from now, fifteen years from now.

In investing, the more experience you gain,

the more you can increase your profits.

Especially in the first few years,

there is hardly any decisive edge.

Even if you make a little profit,

such gains won’t last long.

To develop investment skills,

it takes at least five years.

If you spend ten years, your skills will grow further.

If you keep building your abilities like that,

five, ten, fifteen years from now you can earn profits more reliably than before

and in larger amounts.

The real test of investing is often said to be after year ten.

But people rush toward success.

They ignore the advice to “learn slowly and over time,”

and chase methods that promise quick and easy profits.

In the pursuit of speedy gains,

they suffer significant capital losses and fail to survive until the real test.

Yet they could have achieved truly substantial profits later.

After 16 years of investing, looking back, I think that way.

How would you like to profit from investing in the future?

The more seriously you consider it,

the more you should realize that the real test is still far ahead.

For now, it is time to study toward that real test.