“Your investment is wrong”, published as a column on Toyo Keizai ONLINE

Good morning, this is Matsushita.

Your investment is wrong.

I know it's a bold opening, but

this is a fact for Japanese individual investors.

I, too, once made wrong investments and

lost my funds.

First of all, “the right investment”

is hardly talked about anywhere,

and there is no way to encounter it.

For example, what is the right investment?

It means that you will inevitably incur losses.

Most investors hate losing,

and try somehow to avoid or escape losses, but

the right investment is not about avoiding losses,

but about accepting them and overcoming them.

Yet, as a plain fact,

no one tells this to individual investors from the start.

Because if you say such things,

you will be disliked, stop listening, and

stop buying their products.

But I will be explicit.

“From now on, you will incur losses.”

Moreover,

“overcoming those losses to generate profits

is true investing.”

Everyone dislikes losing, so

they are irresistibly drawn to products or words

that promise an abnormally high win rate,

as if guaranteed 100% profit.

Those products and words do not consider your profits

at all; they only consider their own profits.

Therefore, they lay out comforting words for you.

However, I do not panders to students, readers,

seminar participants, and I will continue to convey the harsh realities of investing.

As proof, since opening my school 13 years ago,

the content taught at the school has remained the same.

From mental discipline and money management to rules,

my investment teachings begin there.

That is why it is my correct

investment approach.

I have earned profits that way,

and the students I have taught have also

made profits in the same way.

Find the right investment soon and

put it into practice.

What is right investing?

It inevitably involves losses, but

you align your odds to increase profits.

That, in essence, is investing.