Comments on: How Many Shares? http://www.iconoclast-investor.com/2008/12/05/how-many-shares/ An investment blog that is NOT always part of the herd Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ethan Bloch http://www.iconoclast-investor.com/2008/12/05/how-many-shares/comment-page-1/#comment-1888 Ethan Bloch Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:09:29 +0000 http://www.iconoclast-investor.com/?p=905#comment-1888 I agree that "How many shares should I buy" is not an easy question to answer. However this question wouldn't even be asked if you hadn't answered the first "What's the one stock I should buy?" Usually if someone feels the need to ask someone else what stock they should buy, it is in my experience this person shouldn't be buying individual stocks at all, but index funds instead. How can one own a stock comfortably, when they own the stock on the reccomendation of someone else and not their own analysis? (sadly enough this is the case for a massive portion of retail investors) Just my 2¢ Cheers. Ethan I agree that “How many shares should I buy” is not an easy question to answer. However this question wouldn’t even be asked if you hadn’t answered the first “What’s the one stock I should buy?”

Usually if someone feels the need to ask someone else what stock they should buy, it is in my experience this person shouldn’t be buying individual stocks at all, but index funds instead. How can one own a stock comfortably, when they own the stock on the reccomendation of someone else and not their own analysis? (sadly enough this is the case for a massive portion of retail investors)

Just my 2¢

Cheers.

Ethan

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